Re:Nearly half of US medical visits are at emergency rooms
by ythn on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:05PM
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What is the maximum amount we should spend to save a human? A million? A billion?
Should society absorb any cost to save a human even if it gets exponentially more expensive with each subsequent procedure? Or should there be a cutoff where you are basically told "Sorry, you've exceeded the threshold and have to either pay for it yourself or die"
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Re:Nearly half of US medical visits are at emergency rooms
by dv_dt on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:14PM
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It would seem that the cost of being stingy here is that the medical care system is more expensive for less performance in the US. Cut off your nose to spite your face exemplified.
Re:Nearly half of US medical visits are at emergency rooms
by ryanobjc on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:20PM
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This is a non-sequitur, and not related to the original topic which was: Should non-citizens be disallowed from receiving ER care without paying for it themselves?
Additionally, we already had that system in place, it was called "lifetime limits" and it was typically $1-2m on the best healthcare plans.