If they can't predict a complication, shouldn't they be setting an ahead of time fee that will on average cover it? Why does the provider get to push the unpredictable risk onto the patient who has less control than they do?
Like I shouldn't be billed extra if my surgeon is hungover and things don't go smoothly.
> Like I shouldn't be billed extra if my surgeon is hungover and things don't go smoothly.
That’s what you think is the common root cause of complications?
You clearly are not interested in a productive discussion.
As for a fee for unpredictable occurrences - that’s what insurance is.
Your hungover surgeon is a bullshit strawman - most complications have nothing to do with provider malice or incompetence. Again since that seems to be the angle you are starting with you clearly have no interest in a grown up discussion or too ignorant and also full of hubris to understand any of this (which fits in perfectly well on this site).
If you throw a massive clot after a surgery and stroke out who’s fault was that if all the standard protocols for clot prevention were followed. Maybe you’re a smoker (or not) and 5 years later that unknown cancer will finally declare itself.
> more or less exists for each procedure
This is extremely misleading as it does not exist in any meaningful level of risk across the entire patient population.