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It should be illegal to render medical services without first declaring the precise amount of money it will cost the end user. If I go to a doctor and they rec
by standardUser 5y ago
It should be illegal to render medical services without first declaring the precise amount of money it will cost the end user.
If I go to a doctor and they recommend a procedure, it should be on them (the service provider) to tell me the cost and I should pay it right then and there. Billing later should be strictly outlawed.
- acuozzo 5y agoAs mentioned elsewhere in the thread, how does this scale to the 10X problem? What if you have a heart attack while under anaesthesia and the cost of your procedure suddenly jumps by a factor of 10?
- standardUser 5y agoThis probably requires setting prices at a level that can absorb these less predictable costs. Would you rather be told you need to pay "somewhere between $2,000 and $30,000, and you'll find out in a couple months which one it is" or that you simply must pay $4,000? Most households would want the safer bet lest they go bankrupt and have the entire trajectory of their lives altered for the worse. The far better solution is of course to have a government program cover these types of costs.