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Comment Just a foot in the door (Score 2) 149

To me this seems like the "foot in the door" technique leading to things that are far worse. I think we can all agree that an MRI is a good thing to be sent and received expeditiously. How do we make sure that only an MRI is getting this treatment or do we just say, anything at a hospital gets priority? I seriously doubt any hospital is going to spend money implementing a fast lane for just a few things. They will just dump it all in the fast lane. Then the finance industry sees this and will demand that their transactions deserve priority as well. (and they will be get it because they are the most powerful lobby in the US) Then any other entity that has money to lobby for fast lane priority will get it as well. Then this will lead us right back to the original issue. Notice how every single comment on here is okay with giving a fast lane to MRIs, that is the "foot in door". You cannot budge on this, you let one through, you're going to let all them through. The politicians are far to manipulative, the very fact that everyone thinks this issue is about creating a "fast lane" shows that this is a losing battle. They are not creating a fast lane, they are creating a slow lane.

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