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Re:What happens when patients find out how good their doctor... by WalterBright on Sunday December 03, 2017 @11:07PM (#15841384)
Because then the people who only get the baseline become a political force for how unfair that is. (We see this in the newspaper essentially every day regarding the public school system.)
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Re:What happens when patients find out how good their doctor... by killjoywashere on Monday December 04, 2017 @12:00AM (#15841556)
Yet the doctors who charge outrageous sums may not actually be as good as the doctors everyone has access to at the county hospital. Indeed, teaching hospitals are known to have better outcomes, and serve the underserved.
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