What is Income-based Medicine?


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n. A style of treating patients implicitly based on their socialand financial status (be it by quality or lack of insurance, etc.).

ant. outcome-based medicine, of which this term is a parody.

When I was in the ER, I didn't have proof of insurance on me, so they asked me to make a deposit of $100... as if it were income-based medicine or something!

See medicine, emergency, income, class, insurance, medicare


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