[websiteapi]

> The proper decorum here is if the doctor made the wrong diagnosis. All fees and causal charges made by the doctor must be fully refunded and paid for. It’s only fair given the premium they were originally given to make a false diagnosis.

lol terrible idea. just as great as having so that the service you bought is entirely refunded if the code has a single bug.

[threethirtytwo]

Well the issue here is that the bug can cause you to die or can fuck up your entire life. A software bug generally doesn’t do anything to you and you actually don’t pay much money for software.

One false diagnosis from a doctor costs you thousands of dollars and fucks up your life.

Remember mcas? The bug on the 737 max that forced Boeing to pay reparations? That’s the level of bullshit people are dealing with for doctors. Life altering stuff. This isn’t some chrome bug or smart phone bug. Therefore the penalties and repercussions of mistakes should be equivalent.

If the diagnosis only costs 100 dollars or something, and I was told that the diagnosis was only a probability… I could accept a no refund policy in that case.

[TZubiri]

Legally speaking, why should the rules for important services be different than unimportant services. The price paid for the services is proportional to its value, if there are no consequences for a bug in your code, it was worth less and you should have paid less for it, the refund would be commesurate.

It's worth noting that you framed the discussion in terms of refunds, so any extra human life uncalculable value isn't really within the scope of a refund, you'd have a malpractice case which is entirely different from a breach of contract. This is just about the fees paid for the service.

[threethirtytwo]

Malpractice is deliberate harm by not following standard professional practices or doing deliberate harm.

I’m not talking about that. What I’m talking about is fucking simple. A doctor gives you advice and you pay him thousands for it. That advice is completely fucking wrong.

In what universe does that payment make sense? In what universe is giving wrong information deserving of thousands of dollars of payment for services rendered. It’s bloody simple: it’s not deserved and a refund is in order.

[nradov]

You're generally paying for time and materials, not results. This is common practice in many industries, not just healthcare, so your rhetorical question is silly and displays deep ignorance about how the system works. If you want to pay for results only then you're free to negotiate a cash payment contract with your healthcare providers on that basis. No one is stopping you from doing that so let's not have any lame responses claiming that the system is conspiring against you or something.

[threethirtytwo]

You have got to be kidding me. No one on the face of the earth wants to pay a doctor for time. They want to pay for results.

Nobody is going to pay thousands of dollars for shitty advice or treatments that can potentially kill you... are you kidding me? What human will happily dish out thousands of dollars just to give "time" to the doctor for wrong advice. That has got to be a joke.

>If you want to pay for results only then you're free to negotiate a cash payment contract with your healthcare providers on that basis.

It needs to be law to make it on this basis. Every patient would demand this. The only person who wouldn't demand this is a doctor who's "time" doesn't provide results.

What's going on here is the patient has nowhere else to turn. If every doctor negotiates on "time" and the legal system is set up this way, what other choice does the patient have then to gamble thousands on something that won't work?

Let me explain it to you plainly. The system is set up this way so patients are indoctrinated to accept unfair treatment. They can even be aware of flaws in the system but they still have to accept it because the behavior is so wide spread.

It's similar to North Korea. If everyone in north korea stood up to Kim Jong Un, the sheer number of people getting screwed over vs. people in power is so overwhelming the government would topple immediately. But the system is pervasive. And that is the medical system in the US: Pervasive and systemic. And it goes deeper than just the unreliability of doctors here.

I WANT to negotiate based on results... but thanks to the cartel-like policies of the medical system all together, I can't. Ask any patient... EVERY patient wants this, but none of them can do it. Same as your average north korean... they don't want to starve under an unreasonable regime, but they have no choice.

You may not have realized it but your last sentence was a slip up... Your initial sentences was an attempt to justify time based payment by comparing and contrasting to other occupations like lawyers... but in your last sentence you were essentially (and likely accidentally) telling me to suck it up because I have no choice. That was not something any patient wants to hear.

[nradov]

You seem to be unclear on the basics of how this works. There's no need for any new laws. If you want to negotiate a value-based care agreement with a healthcare provider instead of paying on a fee-for-service basis then you're free to do so. Existing laws allow for that.

As for your absurd assertions about what every patient wants, you're just lying and making things up. Many patients (like me) don't want that or have no strong preference at all. Your comparison to North Korea is just deranged and bears no relationship to objective reality.