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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.
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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.
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Jesse Powell
@jespow
The ability to pay or the inability for hospitals to run an auction is at the root of the problem. There’s care scarcity because care is underpriced or not everyone is paying, which reduces the cost of risky behavior, increasing it.
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