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Jesse Powell
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Assuming all patients are paying market rate for care, of course the hospital would serve them. Laws requiring seat belts and helmets assume externalized costs to be absorbed by society. If society is paying, it should be able to reject bills resulting from extreme recklessness.
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George Takei
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The willfully unvaccinated who wind up in hospitals from Covid should not receive priority medical care over other very sick or injured people who are as much in urgent need of medical care.
5:39 AM · Aug 16, 2021Twitter for iPhone
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Leo Polovets
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What does "society paying" mean here? (Generally that means paying through taxes.) Does that mean that someone who is unvaccinated would have to pay taxes to contribute to the treatment of covid patients, even though they would not get covered if they're a covid patient?
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Jesse Powell
@jespow
It could also be increased socialized costs of medical care. Where do the costs of uninsured/uncovered medical expenses go? Hard to measure societal cost of stuff like orphaned kids. Hospitals ideally could auction care and people could take as much risk as they can afford.
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Jesse Powell
@jespow
They should be able to deny you or deprioritize you based on your ability to pay. They should also be able to say we’re allocating 2 beds to skydivers and if we get 3 at once, we’ll take the top 2 bidders and #3 will have to wait in the skydiver queue. One queue is the problem.
Jesse Powell
@jespow
Yeah, I don’t agree with that assumption. My point is that hospitals should be able to just say to the skydiver conference that’s coming to town: “you will be seen last. act according to your own risk tolerance.”
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Jesse Powell
@jespow
They should be treated with priority according to their bid. The hospital should be able to decide what it wants to charge and how much care to make available for that issue/queue. Since the vaccine is pumped by the gov and media, I wouldn’t penalize anyone for taking it.
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