What is Income-based Medicine?


1.

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


45

Random Words:

1. similar to a chuntaro, but a zuey is even more of a wetback. Last week I went to the swapmeet and saw a zuey with a buttoned shirt that..
1. A chart documenting someone who’s obnoxious (or a GG) in great detail. When one looks at said chart the initial reaction is to “gag”. ..
1. Meaning: Glow in the Dark Care Bear with blue hair. "hello owen" "mmm butter" See bec..