Re:The Pitchforks Are Coming for Us Plutocrats (2014)
by tptacek on Friday December 06, 2024 @01:43AM
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CMS is Medicare. Your wisdom tooth extraction was almost certainly not really general anesthesia. Were you intubated? During an extraction? I doubt it.
Re:The Pitchforks Are Coming for Us Plutocrats (2014)
by sethev on Friday December 06, 2024 @02:16PM
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Same here for my wisdom tooth but very clearly remember them mentioning there were two options (one like you described and one where I would be out completely). Absolutely zero connection to the current discussion.
Now if what we need is to deal with a rash of insurance fraud, insurers are more than welcome to hire people to sit in on the theater to gain more representative data. But let's be real here. Insurance is more interested in improving their take home spreadwise rather than improving patient outcomes.
And I beg to differ it doesn't happen. I remember quite vividly my wisdom teeth being extracted. I was just under threshold for being able to do anything about it, but awake and aware for the entire thing. Anaesthesia is not something to screw around with.