It always confused me. A hospital has an MRI or some other machine, and you hear they try to use it as little as possible to cut costs, because it costs them this or that amount per usage. But why would that be if they own it?
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There’s the cost it took to buy the machine, the cost of the knowledge of the person running the machine, the power and resources it took to run the machine (like liquid helium for an MRI, which we only have a finite supply of, or the isotopes for other scans, like a PET scan). And then it also costs money to clean the room and machine after the patient has used it. There’s the cost of the knowledge the doctors have to interpret the results of that scan. And there’s the cost of maintenance to maintain and repair the machine when it breaks.
It’s much more than just the machine.
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