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aʒɑ̃ prɔvɔkatœr
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Some of it's out there, lots of it simply isn't . And this would be about how to properly use the healthcare system, not what needs to be done but explaining why it' cheaper to this instead of that. People are amazingly poorly informed on these things or in many cases spent so much time without that they never picked up traits they didn't have anyway of using.
I don't buy that completely. I assume we are talking about people that are poor, probably qualified for medical before ACA, for sure after, right?
Not only are there ad campaigns, they are given opportunities to sign up when getting all manner of other benefits...if they hold off doing it and end up in the hospital, like I said, the sign you up there.
And once you have a card, there isn't any interest in wellness visits and that sort of thing. Doctors talk to families about it, explain its free (usually is on most plans) people just don't
My motorcycle wreck was (obviously) going to be someone else's dime. Even while I hassled with their insurance, the hospital more or less insisted I sign up for indigent care, for which I qualified but had declined to get. It ended up that I paid my entire bill myself out of my fairly modest settlement. I could have fobbed it off on the state. This was 1986, so I imagine that hospitals are even better at getting that Medi-Cal or in my case Access dollar.
