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From: John Levine
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:48
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:48
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In article <978119845.540156254.7211...@news.eternal-september.org>, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> the US medical system works. When's the last time you price shopped for a >> doctor? > >You're starting to get "doc in a box" operations in drug stores, etc. which >are cheaper, quicker, and just as good for many conditions. If restrictions >were loosened on what nurse-practioners, PAs, etc. can do they would be >even more widespread. I think people _do_ shop for medical care by price, >when such information is available. You're certainly right about that, they're an order of magnitude cheaper for semi-emergency stuff than the ER. Unfortunately, for the really expensive stuff where you go straight from the ambulance to the ER to the OR for emergency surgery, it's pretty hard to imagine how one would do price shopping at the time you need the service. -- Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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