Free Medical Care
Think all medical procedures have become too expensive? How would you like free surgery? Massachusetts hospitals have made free medical care easy. All you need to do is have your surgeon remove the wrong body part. That’s not all. THe Mass Hospital Association has generously agreed not to charge for a total of 8 procedures. If for example, your doctor leaves a foreign object in your body…no charge. Or how about if you die because of a medication error…again absolutely no charge. Send a baby home with the wrong parents…perform surgery on the wrong patient…inseminate with the wrong donor seman…? Yes, yes and yes, all perfectly free. Don’t you feel much better now. Dr. Lucian Leape, of the Harvard School of Public Health, believes that, “…this is a very important step.”
My question is how much did the doctors charge in previous years for some of these procedures. Exactly what was the charge for removing the wrong organ? Or operating on the wrong patient? And am I entitled to a rebate if a class ring is found in my liver from a previous operation?