Glasse are a pretty amazing healthcare success story. They’re a major medical advance, unappreciated by basically everyone except glasses wearers who have mislaid them for a day or two. They’re also so dirt cheap that the biggest cost factor is the design of the frame.
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(I note that optometrists seem to be ahead of the curve with specialization of labor, mechanization of the diagnostic process, and record keeping, too. The one I went to today had me download an app to save my prescription on in case I wanted more pairs later w/o (free) re-exam.
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I have to think some of it is the embedded efficiency of cash payments, since there is almost literally nothing I could purchase from a US medical provider for less than the cost of an eye exam and glasses, even if paying cash.
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The last time I went into a doc-in-the-box for “I have classic cold symptoms but since I have a baby at home want to rule out anything worse” it was like 5X the cost of glasses to get 3 minutes of a doctor’s time and a NP to explain “Yep it does look like you have a cold.”
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Disposable implantable cyberwear made of synthetic polymers isn’t nearly as metal as Shadowrun promised it would be!
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