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Originally Posted by The Heron
My GF is a pharmacist and helped setup a Hemophilia clinic, the pricing and billing for that is crazy complicated in the usa. And then they end up with actual physical checks for 100k+ just sitting on a desk because the hospital and insurance companies are too stupid to do electronic payments. It's all insane when you are dealing with such expensive drugs.
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Yeah, genetic disorders like hemophilia are a strong argument against privatization of medicine (although, I think USA is mixed -> state has a great influence) because why would a private insurance accept someone who will for sure cost them couple of million $. I read somewhere a story about a guy from USA with severe hemophilia reaching his 18th birthday without any joint injury. That is really something amazing and I doubt even richest countries with fully socialized medicine achieved that. I have one knee and elbow damaged. Maybe charities help in USA.
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