have you ever asked a doctor or nurse (not dentist) what a procedure will cost before consenting to it?
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sacredness of life seems pretty universal not just US - but there’s something there shielding medicine from being a true market
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i wonder if some of it is just the class signaling, like it isn't safe to ask how much it costs because that's signaling that you need to know that information, which is in turn asking for your upper class doctor to eugenically murder you
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That's a factor, but it's also exacerbated by explicit cost obfuscation; I've asked, and often they *just don't know* how much it will be. I get bills in the mail with one number, then the next day a revised bill with a different number, and I never know what to pay.
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they definitely don't know, yeah, but i suspect that's a feedback loop: they don't know partly because they so often don't have to know
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Yeah, basically. Health issues add extra to operating costs; "is this really a good decision" becomes a burdensome question to answer. Moral quandaries switch cost-benefit problems into good-enough-solution-search framework.
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I often ask. The doctor usually doesn't know. Not infrequently, the insurance help line can't tell me, either. I don't think your thesis is correct.
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HYPOTHESISES FOR THE HYPOTHESIS GOD! ABIOGENESISES FOR THE ABIOGENESIS THRONE
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Bad enough when it's for pets...
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