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> When the government is paying for your healthcare, you get all the unnecessary tests. Where does this happen?
by kwhitefoot 8y ago
> When the government is paying for your healthcare, you get all the unnecessary tests.
Where does this happen?
- AnthonyMouse 8y ago> Where does this happen? What do you mean? The entire US healthcare system operates this way. Either the government is your insurance (medicare, medicaid and similar state programs, federal employees etc.), or they subsidize private insurance through tax incentives and direct subsidies for low income people that encourage/require comprehensive insurance rather than catastrophic coverage. Then none of those people have the incentive to compare prices or decline unnecessary procedures because the insurance is paying for most or all of it.