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11-18-2012, 01:37 PM
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Efficient medical care and price transparency
Is it possible that the "free market" can set the standard for more efficient medical care? Actually, it already has:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uPd...ature=youtu.be
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11-19-2012, 12:14 AM
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My first thought when I started watching that was that her operation was the same price as JUST the anesthesiologist for my last surgery.
Thank you for posting that! Great piece!
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Multiple traumas to spine starting age 13. 1st American to have 6 ADR's in one surgery. C3-4 - C/7, & L5-S1 - L3-4. Surgery w/ Dr. Clavel, 3/18/13, M6. Before surgery: severe spinal stenosis C5/C6 (cord "flattened" per stateside doc), + for Hoffman's & Babinsky's. At time of surgery: 5 yrs MAX before ending up in wheelchair. Clavel found L5-S1 partially fused. Had to cut it apart to put in M6. Please excuse brevity - SEVERE carpel tunnel.
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