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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 08:48
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On 2018-02-13, John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote: > 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. > That "meanest woman alive", whatever her name was, toured ERs looking for a cheap one. (Helmsley?) -- greymaus.ireland.ie Just_Another_Grumpy_Old_Man
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