have you ever asked a doctor or nurse (not dentist) what a procedure will cost before consenting to it?
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my hypothesis about this is that in the US the economics of health care are enormously distorted because it is taboo to ask about costs up front because this violates the sacredness of life, which we must pretend is not a question of money
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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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why allude to a mysterious "something"? we know with absolute certainty what the thing is: the insurer payment model.
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