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From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@****.ORG>
Subject: Surgery
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 09:19:12 -0600
Simon T. Sailer wrote:
|
| > Include the surgery costs from Cybertech in the medical chapter. I didn't
| > like it when they were dropped from SR1, and kept using them from there.
| > I was happy when Cybertech reintroduced them :)
|
| Good Idea, but the cost's are way too high... 250k nuyen is a joke
| even for drastic invasive surgery. And no player could ever hope to
| pay this for delta-grade sugery. Maybe i'ts intended to be that way,
| but 50 millions just for the surgery....

Regular people have insurance and are comped 80%, or they belong to
an HMO and the operation costs them 10 bucks. If you don't have some
sort of insurance coverage surgery expenses are outrageous.

-David
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1068/homepage.htm
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