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[treeman79]

Cash prices on non emergency stuff is often drastically cheaper then insurance.

Nothing like MRI place asking you’ll pay 500 cash. Of 750 copay with balance billed to insurance

[ericmay → treeman79]

yea but that’s immaterial in the broader scheme. How do you transport someone who is incapable of transporting themselves to lifesaving treatment? Who pays for chemo? Etc.

Of course paying for bandaids or ibuprofen is on the table but that isn’t what we are talking about mostly.