Originally Posted By: peter
procedures that aren't treatments in themselves but which can stave off big-ticket medical complications further down the line, could believably be provided for free even if profit were the only motive.

Incredibly, my health insurance company (and perhaps others?) specifically excludes coverage for preventative care.

At first I thought this was financial lunacy on the part of the insurance company, but then my skepticism kicked in and I thought that it might be to their advantage to have sick (i.e., expensive) people die quickly before they ran up too many bills.

tanstaafl.
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