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Re:Costco now offering virtual medical care for $29 by TylerE on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @12:47AM (#37654509)
Like any insurance, the reason you have it is for when something happens that one cannot reasonably anticipate.

It's not the $500 infection that gets you. It's the $60k knee reconstruction or the multi-million dollar cancer treatment.

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Re:Costco now offering virtual medical care for $29 by DoreenMichele on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @12:50AM (#37654539)
The existence of multimillion-dollar treatments offends me.

It seems like medical profit motive has driven medical development too long and we could come up with cheaper, more effective treatments if medical research wasn't driven so much by profit motive.

(/someone with a very expensive condition, so don't @ me)

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