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How does any of this explain haggling over a medical bill?
by sorokod 8y ago
How does any of this explain haggling over a medical bill?
- mercutio2 8y agoThat’s what individual financing means. Most people who respond with mock disbelief in US medical discussions are actually responding to the perception of medical care being expensive, not in shock at the idea that anyone would ever have to pay out of pocket. The point is that US medical care is expensive because we pay nurses and doctors an order of magnitude more than they’re paid in Costa Rica. That makes everything expensive; where that expense precisely gets billed is mostly window dressing.
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- drb91 8y agoPaying for healthcare you need out of pocket is pretty fucked up.
- sorokod 8y agoHow does any of this explain haggling over a medical bill?
- mercutio2 8y agoThat’s... what I just explained? Haggling over a medical bill == individual financing.
- sorokod 8y agoThat Costa Rica reference threw me off, I didn't realize that your claim is the haggling over medical bills is built in into the US health care system.
- mercutio2 8y agoCosta Rica was the starting point for this thread. Haggling over medical costs is built into individual financing, but of course most people in the US don’t do individual financing, so my argument is more that arguing over idiosyncrasies of individual financing is usually a red herring when discussing the US health care system.
- conanbatt 8y agoAs long as a human being provides a service and another human being wishes to consume it, there will be haggling. You just might not see it happening when a third party does it for you.
- sorokod 8y agoTaking this to the logical conclusion we have "I will break your teeth if you don't give that stuff of yours because I can". Social structures and laws evolved for a reason.