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From: Radey Shouman
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:19
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:19
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ma...@mail.com writes: > 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?) Hetty Green. --
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