I'd like to take this a step further. If you pay for a "premium" health care service (One Medical) or have a concierge doctor, it's extremely easy to get a test.
In every case I've needed it (3 times now), I've been able to get a test scheduled same day, with results within a few days. Fully billed to insurance.
Meanwhile, acquaintances I know who are working class and thus can't afford "high end" healthcare are waiting in car lines for hours.
The discrepancy is disgusting and an indictment of the American health care system, IMO.
Regardless of how good health care at-large is, won't it necessarily always be the case that those with money will be able to afford to purchase something better? Would it make anyone more healthy to eliminate that?
It is standard for Medicare to pay roughly three times more for a patient with a respiratory condition who goes on a ventilator than for one who does not.
There is much more financial incentive to test positive, from a hospitals standpoint, in a poor area.
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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 19.8 ms ] threadIn every case I've needed it (3 times now), I've been able to get a test scheduled same day, with results within a few days. Fully billed to insurance.
Meanwhile, acquaintances I know who are working class and thus can't afford "high end" healthcare are waiting in car lines for hours.
The discrepancy is disgusting and an indictment of the American health care system, IMO.
There is much more financial incentive to test positive, from a hospitals standpoint, in a poor area.