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Re:Employees Start to Feel the Squeeze of High-Deductible He... by mattlondon on Friday May 03, 2019 @03:31PM (#19821501)
> Note that lifetime caps are a lot more generous than what they have in say the UK, where you don’t get treatment if it costs more than $50-75k per year of extended life

Do you have any data for that? Sounds odd.

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Re:Employees Start to Feel the Squeeze of High-Deductible He... by rayiner on Friday May 03, 2019 @04:07PM (#19821796)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28983924. It’s not odd at all. It’s a basic thing that makes the UK’s health system work. US insurers (in the past) would piss away a half a million or a million on uncertain treatments. (And then the family would go out of pocket, go broke, and there would be an article on medical bankruptcies.) The UK doesn’t do that. Instead, it’s very aggressive about justifying costs with expected outcomes.
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