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. An Iowigger is an Iowa nigger, a black person living in Iowa. Iowiggers are OK, but they don't give the proper big-city jerk/suck ..
1. to get a good kicking or telling off from ones parents as a child. eg "oh no im nearly 3 hours late i should of been in at 9 im go..
1. Expression of much shock. Person: omfg, Matthew Lush dyed his hair blonde >.< Me: zomgarrzXOzz. See shock, webspeak, zomg, omfg..