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"What Happens When Doctors Only Take Cash"? Everybody, Especially Patients, Wins

30th Jan 2017

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This is a linkpost for http://reason.com/blog/2017/01/27/what-happens-when-doctors-only-take-cash

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"What Happens When Doctors Only Take Cash"? Everybody, Especially Patients, Wins

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Fascinating. One can only hope this kind of thing proliferates.

[-]morganism8y00

A Plan to Win Universal Health Care

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/06/trumpcare-obamacare-repeal-ahca-single-payer

some interesting ideas put together in one article here.

[-]Applesauce9y00

I better start saving money incase I need a 30k surgery.

[-]morganism9y00

link to Time article

http://time.com/4649914/why-the-doctor-takes-only-cash/?iid=sr-link1

and from linked title article

"If patients go to a traditional hospital, they pay their deductible and co-payment. If they go to a cash-based provider that meets the fund's criteria, including the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, they pay nothing at all."

[-]CronoDAS9y20

The people who "pay nothing at all" are state employees insured by the state.

[-]morganism9y00

Patient quoted was in a private business, and received an authorization from internal insurance ,I believe.

The quote above IS from State guv insurance, which agreed with the math the business did.

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