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 | | Most troublingly, they are bundling medical care with unrelated amenity services (such as lavish waiting rooms and comfort for the “worried well”) in order to avoid legal and regulatory bars on “balance billing” and multiple standards of care. |
 | | According to one doctor from the Mayo Medical School, "Families are going to be told, 'We have to take your loved one off the ventilator even though, if we could keep him on it for a week, he might be fine.'" |
 | | The frequent claim that the United States pays high medical prices to avoid long waiting lists for care also fails to hold up in the face of the evidence: there are long waiting lists for elective surgery in some non-US systems, but not all, and the procedures for which these waiting lists |
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