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Thanks for responding! I wouldn't support cutting doctors salaries I don't think. Not that I am in charge of that sort of thing anyway! I also don't think it is the doctors job to be able to know all the costs. But I think it should probably be someone's job (probably at the insurance companies end) so that patients have transparency up front. It's hard to know what treatment to choose without knowledge of the costs as well as the benefits.
Enjoy your vacation!
Health systems do sometimes try and figure this stuff out and help patients but its complicated because insurance companies make a full time job out of causing issues here - one of the classic is the way that COPD/Asthma inhalers change every year because insurance companies change what they will pay all the time.
The insurance company has no desire to clear things up with their staff for the obvious reasons.
With respect to diseases like this you will absolutely get the best possible care in the U.S. because no socialized system will spend the money involved. It will just cost you an arm and a leg in the process.
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