This is the most absurd escalation I've read regarding the US healthcare system. What a laugh.
Since it's this bad, it alludes to vast untapped potential for more cost saving measures that are both funny and embarrassing.
A quick google suggests prisoners have to pay 10-100$ copays in some states, but otherwise receive care. I wonder if there's a topology of illnesses where a financially optimal course of action to acquire treatment is to commit some petty crime and receiving treatment in prison? After lost wages, and earnings potential from your now tainted record, and all else. There might be!
Here's a business idea that might already exist, vocational-technical elementary / pre-school for trying to lead your own children into and through medschool. Doctors are so expensive you might as well make your own!
That one baby saving medicine that just got approved costs like 2 million dollars, right? For anything ~ 200k+ that isn't literally holding your baby hostage from imminent death, it's probably cheaper to get a degree in chemistry and some lab equipment.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43pngb/how-to-make-your-o...
It's crazy, but only in a crazy system can things like this approach rational.
Here's another idea. What if patients could rent hospital administration as a service. Put payment for a procedure in escrow, sign all the malpractice waivers and try to attract a doctor like tinder. I'll sign all malpractice waivers if you'll just cut this cancer out of my gut. We can use my living room! It's this or death anyways so fuck it! America WOO
Since it's this bad, it alludes to vast untapped potential for more cost saving measures that are both funny and embarrassing.
A quick google suggests prisoners have to pay 10-100$ copays in some states, but otherwise receive care. I wonder if there's a topology of illnesses where a financially optimal course of action to acquire treatment is to commit some petty crime and receiving treatment in prison? After lost wages, and earnings potential from your now tainted record, and all else. There might be!
Here's a business idea that might already exist, vocational-technical elementary / pre-school for trying to lead your own children into and through medschool. Doctors are so expensive you might as well make your own!
That one baby saving medicine that just got approved costs like 2 million dollars, right? For anything ~ 200k+ that isn't literally holding your baby hostage from imminent death, it's probably cheaper to get a degree in chemistry and some lab equipment.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43pngb/how-to-make-your-o...
It's crazy, but only in a crazy system can things like this approach rational.
Here's another idea. What if patients could rent hospital administration as a service. Put payment for a procedure in escrow, sign all the malpractice waivers and try to attract a doctor like tinder. I'll sign all malpractice waivers if you'll just cut this cancer out of my gut. We can use my living room! It's this or death anyways so fuck it! America WOO