> Private insurance can be used as well, giving preferred access and treatment.
Well, actually, the contracts doctors have with the public insurance carriers forbid giving preferred access. So handing out earlier appointments to privately insured people is verboten. But no doctor obeys this, and punishment is practically nonexistent.
Differences in offered treatments are allowed, the catalogue that private insurance pays for is usually larger.
Well, actually, the contracts doctors have with the public insurance carriers forbid giving preferred access. So handing out earlier appointments to privately insured people is verboten. But no doctor obeys this, and punishment is practically nonexistent.
Differences in offered treatments are allowed, the catalogue that private insurance pays for is usually larger.