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Re:Doctor Replied to Your Email. That'll Cost $25 by recursive on Friday March 08, 2024 @12:23PM (#39643336)
How much time would you spend shopping around while you're bleeding out from a head wound? What would you use for negotiation leverage?
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Re:Doctor Replied to Your Email. That'll Cost $25 by nightski on Friday March 08, 2024 @12:34PM (#39643461)
Typically one would not do that. You'd shop around ahead of time, sign up for a plan and then if/when the emergency came it would already be taken care of.
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Re:Doctor Replied to Your Email. That'll Cost $25 by recursive on Friday March 08, 2024 @12:35PM (#39643468)
That's what we have now. I hope you're conscious enough to tell the ambulance driver which hospital to drive to.
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Re:Doctor Replied to Your Email. That'll Cost $25 by anon-sre-srm on Friday March 08, 2024 @01:19PM (#39644092)
SF Bay Area south bay -> Good Samaritan (anything but Valley Med)

SF Bay Area peninsula -> Stanford

Austin -> St David's

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