Re:Thoughts on Insurance
by brianwawok on Thursday June 29, 2017 @02:09PM
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Vets are like this too. Vets and Dental are very simple.
My root canal is $325? Cool. I can shop it around or go with it. Same with a pet procedure.
Medical is the crazy town.
Re:Thoughts on Insurance
by jessaustin on Thursday June 29, 2017 @07:04PM
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Is this because dentists can tell patients who forgot their wallets to take a hike, hospitals can't, and for the most part hospitals don't do emergency dentistry? [0] That is, if dentists were more "ethical", we might see the same problems with cost and payment in dentistry that we see in health care in general?
[0] Sure, there are extreme exceptions, since most hospitals have a dentist they can call when an emergency patient is admitted because an abscessed tooth has destroyed their entire body... It takes commitment and/or great misfortune to get to that point.
Got it. I only used dental as an example in Canada because majority of everything else is already covered by universal health care, so I don't have experience dealing with pricing for other things in Canada.
Other healthcare on the other hand is often a mess, although it is getting better. I've found recently (an MRI in this instance) that I was able to get costs beforehand, and even compare prices. I think the prevalence of HDHP (high deductible health plans) has steered people towards expecting to pay out-of-pocket for care, which has led to a positive change in this area.