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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like, the only place i would expect that to be more unsafe is the UK, which is where they decided to actually make it so you don't *need* to ask
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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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Also, if you HAVE money to spend, and you don't spend it, that's frowned upon. I watched a parent go through USELESS chemotherapy & radiation, which NEVER works on the type of cancer they had. But they had insurance to pay for it so it was ordered.
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They spent months tied to their home instead of traveling because they had to be available for the chemo every week, and then spend days recovering from it. I've already decided that *I* am going to be the one deciding which care I get, or DON'T get, when the time comes.
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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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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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Hearing anecdotes about this, seems that often if you ask what the price will be no one involved with the situation knows. Price transparency is garbage.
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Bad enough when it's for pets...
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HYPOTHESISES FOR THE HYPOTHESIS GOD! ABIOGENESISES FOR THE ABIOGENESIS THRONE
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