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Are you really choosing not to receive treatment if you can't afford it?
by thatcat 10y ago
Are you really choosing not to receive treatment if you can't afford it?
- paulddraper 10y agoAbsolutely. For example I tore my right ACL last summer. I chose to wait 6 months to have an MRI and surgery (in fact, I had no idea what the injury was for that entire time), because we have a high deductable and my wife will give birth this year. You might say that's just an artifact of a broken system, and you might be right. But say, if I was 50+, I'd likely choose to avoid the surgery and expense altogether. People forgo medical treatment all the time.
- thatcat 10y agoSeems like in that case you could have afforded it, but chose not to due to high cost and non critical nature of your injury.