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To give some color. I haven't heard that marginal costs are ~$5000/day, I have heard they are closer to $20k/day. Granted other procedures were involved, but on
by kurthr 5y ago
To give some color. I haven't heard that marginal costs are ~$5000/day, I have heard they are closer to $20k/day. Granted other procedures were involved, but one ECMO stay was over $12M for 4 months. That is closer to $100k/day.
How many other people could you save (even within the same healthcare system) for that kind of money? These long tails have huge impacts on insurance costs.
- throwaway6734 5y agoYep that's insane. That's the same as giving 1,000 families $1000 a month for the first year that their child is born. Surely that would have a significantly larger positive impact on society
- jessriedel 5y ago> I haven't heard that marginal costs are ~$5000/day, I have heard they are closer to $20k/day. To be clear, I wrote >$5k, not ~$5k.