@lkngrrr@aral Ah. So instead of getting something fixed early and cheaply, someone without vast amounts of money has to wait until it's an emergency before they can access treatment, with the degraded quality of life and added risk and cost (to the system)?
@lkngrrr@aral I'm just an engineer, not a medic, and I can spot that one ... but I suppose that the day job could be described as "looking for failure modes in systems".
@TimWardCam @aral
And then we reinforce the socioeconomic divide by looking down on people who “waited too long”!