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You have apparently never been handed a $93k estimate for dental work, and are probably not aware that it is nearly impossible to find a dental plan that will p
by hamburglar 14y ago
You have apparently never been handed a $93k estimate for dental work, and are probably not aware that it is nearly impossible to find a dental plan that will pay for more than a couple thousand dollars of work (they all have caps that can easily be exceeded by getting work done on a single tooth).
- jpadkins 14y ago$93k dental work sounds like an outlier. In a free market, $93k dental work should be as rare Bentley's on the road. There are very few people who can afford $93k procedures, so dentists/doctors will have to figure out how to do the procedure for a lot less or deal with the fact that their target market will be extremely small.
- hamburglar 14y agoAbsolutely true that $93k is an outlier. $10-20k, however, is not, and is enough to constitute a genuine hardship for a lot of families.
- hamburglar 14y agoBesides, isn't the entire purpose of insurance to smooth out the outliers? $500k cancer treatment is an outlier, too, which is why I have medical insurance that covers it.