Medical equipment pricing is completely broken when a sling costs $200

Re:Medical equipment pricing is completely broken when a sli... by jellicle on Friday September 13, 2019 @10:33PM (#20968574)

The reason is so that there aren't "boutique" private practices. Keeping the rich people in the same boat as the poor people is actually quite important for the long-term health and welfare of the system. Members of the Canadian parliament have the same healthcare system as anyone else. Thus they aren't terribly tempted to cut it.

If private insurance was allowed (in Canada), the elite would have expensive plans that had physicians only caring for a few people each, and so on. This worsens the care in the general system but more importantly, it splits the interests of the elite from the general public.

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Re:Medical equipment pricing is completely broken when a sli... by dmitrygr on Friday September 13, 2019 @11:31PM (#20968761)

So how do you justify to your family that you are voting for someone who will reduce availability of very specialized treatment for them (those boutique doctors), so some random people you've never heard of can have better care "on average"?

Becuase that's where I get stuck.

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Re:Medical equipment pricing is completely broken when a sli... by rahidz on Saturday September 14, 2019 @01:28AM (#20969096)

From a selfish perspective, because you run into those random people. When your servers and your retail employees can go to the doctor instead of "waiting it out" because of medical expenses, that's less likely to make you and your family ill.

From a less selfish perspective, there but for the grace of God go you.

Hoy por ti, mañana por mi.

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Re:Medical equipment pricing is completely broken when a sli... by omegaworks on Saturday September 14, 2019 @12:02AM (#20968842)

Specialized care is not synonymous with boutique care. We have a robust research and development economy in the US that will continue to exist without the perverse incentives of private insurance.

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Re:Medical equipment pricing is completely broken when a sli... by dmitrygr on Saturday September 14, 2019 @12:19AM (#20968877)

Is that why people from all over the world come to USA for cancer care, against all costs?

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Re:Medical equipment pricing is completely broken when a sli... by omegaworks on Saturday September 14, 2019 @12:42AM (#20968957)

And people all over the world go to South Korea for plastic surgery. We don’t stop being the best because we now pay for the care for every American at the point of need.

Specialized illnesses don’t discriminate by class. Those without means don’t receive the care they need. We are fighting so that the system centers that care instead of revolving around a third party private payer that has every incentive to deny that care.

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Re:Medical equipment pricing is completely broken when a sli... by jellicle on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @07:37AM (#20993789)

Having boutique practices is what reduces the availability of very specialized treatment, not the reverse. You're stuck because your understanding is completely backwards.

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