Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care

Re:Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care by UseStrict on Thursday February 06, 2020 @11:09AM (#22257127)

Yeah that sounds a lot like American propaganda about the Canadian healthcare system. All of my family has had their surgeries done in Canada, and while there is a needs-based component the wait times aren't ridiculous.

Publicly funded healthcare may not solve all issues, but it removes the perverse incentive to refuse or reduce care quality because you don't have access to insurance or cash. Free market means shit to me if I'm mid-heart attack, I don't have the time to review pamphlets about why ABC hospital has the best care for the low-low price of $4999!

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Re:Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care by rlanday on Thursday February 06, 2020 @12:30PM (#22258109)

And what proportion of the time are you having a heart attack when you see a doctor?

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Re:Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care by ceejayoz on Thursday February 06, 2020 @12:55PM (#22258362)

There are enough heart attacks (and other issues of an emergency nature where it's difficult to go do comparison shopping) that the health care system clearly needs to account for that sort of situation.

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