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Originally Posted by tater
The poor get excellent medical care in the US. Docs are forced to take medicaid patients to have privileges at hospitals. Docs treat them no differently than anyone else, heck, they often don't even know the insurance status. Even if they did, fear of being sued (the poor patients do like to sue, after all) means the incentive is also to treat them the same.
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Why then have
multiple studies found that poor people are treated by lower quality physicians? I think those findings make it hard to argue that the poor receive the same standard of care as everyone else.