Doctor Replied to Your Email. That'll Cost $25

Re:Doctor Replied to Your Email. That'll Cost $25 by polski-g on Friday March 08, 2024 @01:30PM (#39644250)

Because we don't have death panels like in countries with government-run plans. Your insurance carrier won't deny you a bone marrow transplant because you're 85 (it costs over $1m). Other countries will deny it, because you're 85 and have had a good life.

The UK's death panel is called NICE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_for_Health_...

We should have something similar in the US. 80% of all healthcare spending is consumed by people in the last 3 years of their life.

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Re:Doctor Replied to Your Email. That'll Cost $25 by Volundr on Friday March 08, 2024 @02:25PM (#39645129)

> Your insurance carrier won't deny you a bone marrow transplant because you're 85 (it costs over $1m).

Your experience with insurance in the US is very different from mine.

My experience is insurance denying my 34 year old sister's MS meditation until she ended up in the ER.

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Re:Doctor Replied to Your Email. That'll Cost $25 by polski-g on Friday March 08, 2024 @06:32PM (#39647810)

True. I've never had a bad experience with them.

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Re:Doctor Replied to Your Email. That'll Cost $25 by plagiarist on Friday March 08, 2024 @04:07PM (#39646505)

I think it could be cool to have an evidence-based death panel of experts instead of our ad-hoc death panel of one guy (or one LLM!) running through a spreadsheet and clicking "no."

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