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Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k by polski-g on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @07:35PM (#45740731)
UK/CA healthcare sounds like hell. Every doctor is under the government, so even if you have money for a procedure the government doesn't want to cover, you can't get it done. And of course because there is no rationing by price there is rationing by time, so you end up with 13mo waits for an MRI.
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Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k by dragonwriter on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @07:38PM (#45740767)
Leaving aside the subjective impressions, the objective parts of that description are only accurate for CA, not UK, healthcare; the UK has optional add-on private insurance and care on top of the universal public system.
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