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Old 10-29-2023, 09:14 PM
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Originally Posted by retiredguy123 View Post
I would add that the patient should always be required to make a copay for any medical treatment, to encourage competition among medical providers. Under the current system, patients don't care how much the treatment costs when it is covered 100 percent by insurance.
Yeah - a poor person with an infectious disease, who can't afford a co-pay, should be turned away. Let them infect everyone else, that's fine since everyone else can just pay the co-pay when they get sick.