The Cost of Not Getting Tested for Coronavirus: A $10K ER Bill

Re:The Cost of Not Getting Tested for Coronavirus: A $10K ER... by jacobush on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @05:46PM (#22551122)

Mmm yeah I wonder.

UK: someone dies of cancer or whatever. Enters the statistics as cancer death. Drags down outcome.

USA: someone dies of cancer or whatever. Was poor. Gets buried. Cancer statistics unharmed.

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Re:The Cost of Not Getting Tested for Coronavirus: A $10K ER... by lostmsu on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @06:18PM (#22551413)

You still have to report some cause of death.

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Re:The Cost of Not Getting Tested for Coronavirus: A $10K ER... by jacobush on Thursday March 12, 2020 @04:22AM (#22554798)

And how well does that work do you think? Given how many are misdiagnosed or undiagnosed before death, how much money and effort do you think is spent on the cause of death for some random, (literally) poor corpse?

Of course "some" reason will be logged.

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Re:The Cost of Not Getting Tested for Coronavirus: A $10K ER... by lostmsu on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:22AM (#22557769)

You were implying, that sloppiness leads to reduced cancer statistics, painting a better picture for the US. Well, if another cause of death is used instead, the picture will look worse for it. There is no escape.

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Re:The Cost of Not Getting Tested for Coronavirus: A $10K ER... by jacobush on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:29AM (#22557847)

I think it might actually!

(Like obesity, heart failure, complex some-or-other, "natural causes", take your pick.)

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