all the dumbies in his replies made me realize that "only one disease's treatment is free" means a patient's bill for an extended hospital stay due to pneumonia can go from free to bankrupting if their test comes back negative. https://twitter.com/MaxTemkin/status/1244813108071325697 …
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Even under normal circumstances there's a lot of overlapping and extremely billable interventions for influenza/coronavirus that ought to be started before confirming it's one or the other. Plus the exam and tests will be billed, price depending on results. It's a vile approach.
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Oh for sure. Mainly just brainstorming ways to get around it if they went through with that scheme (seems unlikely, really, are we gonna pick through the causation to separate out the bill for opportunistic infection or complications of diabetes)
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