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Physician and Hospital resources is a real zero sum game, how do you fairly regulate the medical landscape so those who's lives will benefit most from a procedu
by jmspamerton 5mo ago
Physician and Hospital resources is a real zero sum game, how do you fairly regulate the medical landscape so those who's lives will benefit most from a procedure will receive the procedure?
Who decides this? You?
Should we allow everyone in the world who needs a procedure to receive one free and get ahead in line for Americans who need the same procedure? That's what the current climate looks like with unbridaled immigration under progressives.
These are hard questions. What's the answer?
- singleshot_ 5mo ago[flagged]
- ben-johnson 5mo agoAre they? I would love to hear how you would solve those problems rather than make a blythe, thoughtless remark
- singleshot_ 5mo agoDid you know you spelled "unbridled" wrong because you are an idiot?
- tt24 5mo agoDang, can we take a look at this one please? It’s not a productive, helpful, or interesting comment. Thanks!
- hdgvhicv 5mo agoEvery other country seems to solve it
- ben-johnson 5mo ago[flagged]
- throwway120385 5mo ago> In Canada, the wait is so long for free specialized procedures that many patients choose euthanasia instead. This claim is so outlandish that I'd like to see some sources for it.
- ben-johnson 5mo ago[flagged]
- zardo 5mo ago[flagged]
- nick__m 5mo agoI live in Québec, Canada and the longest I had to wait was 3 months for a gallbladder ablation. And my wife, who is on her fourtht year of ribociclib to prevent her spinal metastasis (breast cancer) from coming back, have timely periodical CT-PET and IRM scans. MAID is popular not because of lack of care but because Québécois values their autonomy and quality of life above being simply alive for the longest time possible.
- ben-johnson 5mo ago
- throwway120385 5mo agoWhy not pay for these things out of taxes? I don't think you'll be so quick to defend the system if you ever find yourself needing care beyond a checkup once a year. It's designed to make the insurance carrier money by constantly having little costs slip through the cracks that should be covered. Get a dental checkup? Sorry one of your X-Rays wasn't covered but the other ones were. Now you get to spend hours fighting for a $13.00 cost. Oh you're at the max for this service for the year because we accumulated the estimated cost when you started calling doctors about what the after-insurance cost will be. Wait a minute this out-patient consult is actually a surgery because you saw a surgeon so it must have been a surgery, and it's not medically necessary to have the surgery without the consult.
- ben-johnson 5mo agoBecause there are a finite number of doctors and hospital beds and you can't create either by throwing more money at the problem. You didn't actually read the content did you
- freeone3000 5mo agoThe doctor has already managed to find time for the service - she’s seen you. Potentially even done the procedure. The hospital has made room for you. The resource is already consumed by you, like a restaurant meal. The question is who is picking up the check, when you already have a subscription service paid for.
- tt24 5mo agoThe service is not “free healthcare for any procedure ordered by a doctor all the time without limits”, they have the right to refuse something they feel is unnecessary
- freeone3000 5mo agoWhy isn’t it “any procedure performed by a doctor all the time with no limits”? Do you think there’s a cabal of doctors doing medical procedures for funsies? And that if such a thing did exist, it would be a bigger problem than some company who has never seen you, never examined you, and you’ve already paid money to, denying the claim because they judge it “unnecessary” when the doctor who did see you claims it is?
- AlotOfReading 5mo agoI guarantee you that the insurance company has zero clue or consideration for any physician and hospital resource constraints. Gating access to medical care is the job of the patient's PCP and or other doctor. If the care is truly, meaningfully rationed (like transplant organs and blood banks), there are triaged priority lists managed by medical organizations.