Re:'The People's Hospital' treats uninsured and undocumented
by Retric on Friday March 17, 2023 @08:45AM
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Preventative medicine is that which is done before significant symptoms. The basic issue, people tend to heal from most things. So the worst case of losing an arm to a cat bite is extremely unlikely. Meanwhile your hospital trip had an cost.
Suppose the odds work out to 1:100,000 lost arm vs 300$ hospital treatment. Now a lost arm is expensive but it’s not 30 million dollars expensive.
Those numbers aren’t based on anything but that’s the kinds of calculations involved. And as I mentioned the winners seem to be extremely cheap options like vacations.
Re:'The People's Hospital' treats uninsured and undocumented
by arethuza on Friday March 17, 2023 @08:54AM
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Vaccinations? :-)
Re:'The People's Hospital' treats uninsured and undocumented
by pclmulqdq on Friday March 17, 2023 @09:15AM
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That was one of the examples OP cited already as a place where preventative medicine works.
Re:'The People's Hospital' treats uninsured and undocumented
by i80and on Friday March 17, 2023 @09:44AM
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I believe they are referring to a s/vaccinations/vacations typo
Re:'The People's Hospital' treats uninsured and undocumented
by lostlogin on Friday March 17, 2023 @09:57AM
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The poor poster is likely getting hit by triggered HN users.
On a brighter note, no one is anti-vacation.
Re:'The People's Hospital' treats uninsured and undocumented
by interactivecode on Friday March 17, 2023 @12:07PM
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If people don't get healthcare but still have costs of managing their symptoms. Or when people die at home, those costs aren't in the hospital books.
Re:'The People's Hospital' treats uninsured and undocumented
by Retric on Friday March 17, 2023 @06:14PM
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But they are largely on insurance companies/public healthcare systems books.
This is why vaccines are generally free out of pocket, the ROI is very positive for the insurance company.
Re:'The People's Hospital' treats uninsured and undocumented
by yamtaddle on Friday March 17, 2023 @01:50PM
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> A few years back I was hospitalised because of a bite on my arm from one of our cats (long story) and was given heavy doses of multiple antibiotics.
And of course there's an XKCD for that:
A few years back I was hospitalised because of a bite on my arm from one of our cats (long story) and was given heavy doses of multiple antibiotics.
If that hadn't been treated so promptly I might have required surgery or might even have lost my arm (a nurse told me about someone who lost a leg to a cat bite!).
Edit: When I went to the hospital I had no idea how serious it was and turned up to the "Minor Injury Unit" - they had me in A&E and X-rayed within about 10 minutes!
Edit: Of course, having been in the hospital for 3 days rather than the expected hour or so I was fretting about car parking charges - turns out they are free at the point of parking....