BioethxChat
Transcript 10 - January 27, 2014
Topic: Financially Underserved Communities
January 20, 2014
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T1: Pt in USA tells HCP he has fallen on financial hardship. Ethical 4 HCP 2 waive copay, just collecting $ from insurance? #bioethx
T2: Does morality require pharm companies 2 donate AIDS/other medicines to ppl in Africa who cant afford? #bioethx
T3: Older Illegal immigrant 2 ER w MI. No insurance/Low income. Stable but need ‘extra care.’ No relatives can release 2. What 2 do? #bioethx
T4: Experimntl Q~not CaseBased. If u wer 2 design HCsystm w baseline safetynet covrage 4 poor what essntial services wuld u add & y? #bioethx
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