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$11,000 colonoscopies are not random events. You choose to have one because apparently, the medical profession in the last 20 years has convinced everyone that unless you get violated by a metal tube at or before age 50, you'll die. It's pure bunk. You can live to 100 without ever once being anally violated with a metal tube. Really.
So if the $11,000 price tag is too high...DON'T GET THE $11,000 SERVICE PERFORMED.
It's very simple.
A crock!
A very worthwhile routine outpatient diagnostic tool for finding prevalent and common cancerous intestinal polyps in the over 50's with no reasonable or rational cost explanation and your only response is: "don't want to pay that, then don't get it.
Yep, good old capitalistic common sense displayed right there. Deny yourself effective early detection disease mitigation due to it's outrageous exorbitant costs but do not, under any circumstances question the ethics behind that at all 'cause after all the free market is sacrosanct.
A very worthwhile routine outpatient diagnostic tool for finding prevalent and common cancerous intestinal polyps in the over 50's with no reasonable or rational cost explanation and your only response is: "don't want to pay that, then don't get it.
Yep, good old capitalistic common sense displayed right there. Deny yourself effective early detection disease mitigation due to it's outrageous exorbitant costs but do not, under any circumstances question the ethics behind that at all 'cause after all the free market is sacrosanct.
Your insulting screed aside, there still is nothing mandatory about a routine colonoscopy and your $11,000 number is bunk. The most expensive colonoscopy in my city is $7400 and the least is $1700, but if I get my colonoscopy at 50, mine is free because my insurer pays 100% of the cost as it is indeed preventative.
So once more, with feeling, if you do not like an $11,000 price tag attached to a colonoscopy...DON'T GET ONE AT THAT PRICE. I refuse to get a colonoscopy if it costs $11,000, so I choose to have a a good insurance policy that covers that particular procedure 100%.
If the market no longer paid $11,000 for colonoscopies, anyone charging such a number would lower their price or get no business. You have all the power in the world to change the price of what a supplier sells a good/service for, because you can always set that price to $0 by NOT BUYING IT.
The fact that they're going down doesn't mean that they still aren't high. Also, compensation per patient has been going down, but nobody writes about that.
Too little. We have far higher paid people with far lower skills and lower demand jobs. The highest paid employee on our state payroll? You might think a Dr. at a med school? Maybe a top scientist? Nope-the glorified gym teacher at our state university. Hardly unique to my state. Our priorities are screwed up.
Too little. We have far higher paid people with far lower skills and lower demand jobs. The highest paid employee on our state payroll? You might think a Dr. at a med school? Maybe a top scientist? Nope-the glorified gym teacher at our state university. Hardly unique to my state. Our priorities are screwed up.
Where do you live?
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