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You aren't really paying $100,000 for a $9,000 treatment for yourself. You are paying $100,000 for a $90,000 treatment for yourself and nine others who didn't m
by winstonewert 8y ago
You aren't really paying $100,000 for a $9,000 treatment for yourself. You are paying $100,000 for a $90,000 treatment for yourself and nine others who didn't make it. What this scheme does is ensures that those who actually benefit from the cure pay for it which strikes me as a lot fairer then making everyone pay up front even those who will end up dying anyways.
- mikeash 8y agoI’m not saying it’s unfair. I just think the numbers that would make it a good incentive for the doctors would also make it so there were no customers.
- winstonewert 8y agoIt seems to me that there is a good incentive for doctors IF the treatment is worth the cost. If the treatment has a really low success rate and is really expensive, sure, the incentive doesn't work for a doctor. But that's because the treatment really isn't worth doing at all.