Re:How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life
by tptacek on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:19PM
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That's 2-3 orders of magnitude fewer than appendectomies, and an order of magnitude fewer than handgun injuries. 7000 rattlesnake bites is 0.002% of the population.
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Re:How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life
by sdfasdasf on Friday February 02, 2018 @02:01PM
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Sure and appendectomies are very expensive. But why do you dismiss the OPs concern for the outrageous cost of anti-venom?
Perhaps because the cost of something as rare, expensive to produce and perishable as anti-venom is sort of justified, whereas a relatively routine operation like and appendectomy is not?
Ok, that's fine. But it still stands that snake bites cost 150K and that's a lot of money!