I was talking to a doctor today. A honest fellow.
Almost as old as I am.
He told the game today is for the many accessory
people in hospitals, are acting as independent agents.
With no knowledge of patients, they refuse insurance
and can bill at any price.
Some patients are getting very high bills not covered by
insurance. Wana lose your house. This type turn
the bills over to collection agencies very soon.
It is time for laws for truth in medicine. It is an election year.
I would want a full disclosure of all i dependent entities
that are involved in hospital health care. their billing
policies and final cost. It needs to be a Federal Law.
In my early days you could trust a doctor and associates
people. Now we NEED the regulations and penalties.
A person with necessary medical care is not a
operating with free will. So some of the billing
may be extortion. Let the clowns
find another business.:
Guy
Janet Wilder - 02 Mar 2006 01:57 GMT
> I was talking to a doctor today. A honest fellow.
> Almost as old as I am.
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> may be extortion. Let the clowns
> find another business.:
After being treated in an ER, I once received a bill from a doctor i'd
never heard of nor seen. I sent a letter asking what the treatment was
that the doctor supposedly gave me. I got another bill. I wrote three
more times, the last time via certified mail. When I never got the
courtesy of a reply, I sent all the copies to the consumer advocate
department of the local government. I never heard from the doctor again.
With all that paper-trail behind me, they dared not send me to a
collection agency.

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Kurt - 02 Mar 2006 05:34 GMT
> I was talking to a doctor today. A honest fellow.
> Almost as old as I am.
[quoted text clipped - 22 lines]
> may be extortion. Let the clowns
> find another business.:
Guy, I believe that America is at the crossroads in regards to health
insurance. It's time for politics to stop and working towards a real
solution to start. If our American forefathers would have seen how
many people today are without basic health insurance they might have
added to the list of unalienable rights in the Declaration of
Independence - "life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and basic health
care coverage"!
Best,
Kurt