What happens when you treat healthcare like a service?

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Re: What happens when you treat healthcare like a service?

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Just for laughs I dug up the bill from my last root canal. Insurance only covered about half of it.

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JLTucker wrote:This is all you need to look at to know what health care is like in the U.S. Those are links to an itemized bill I received back in 2010 when I had no health insurance. I plan to request one for the laparascopic right colectomy I had last June when I had insurance. I will will be 26 by the time January comes around, so I'll be fucked again if something happens.
Thats quite legible. Ours simply lump it into Lab tests, Radiological investigations and etc. Makes it easier to fight excess charging....
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