| Re: free, huh, was Bitcoin confusion? [message #363441] |
Wed, 14 February 2018 09:59  |
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Originally posted by: JimP
On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:16:45 -0600, Dave Garland
<dave.garland@wizinfo.com> wrote:
> On 2/13/2018 8:44 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:05:31 -0600, Dave Garland
>> <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> wrote:
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>>> On 2/13/2018 10:20 AM, Huge wrote:
>>>> On 2018-02-13, Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> wrote:
>>>> > On 2/13/2018 2:48 AM, mausg@mail.com wrote:
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>>>> [20 lines snipped]
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>>>> >> That "meanest woman alive", whatever her name was, toured ERs looking
>>>> >> for a cheap one.
>>>> >> (Helmsley?)
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> > Good luck with that these days. They'll have you sign a paper
>>>> > guaranteeing to pay the bill, but refuse to tell you what the bill
>>>> > will be.
>>>>
>>>> It'll be wrong anyway. And come in dribs and drabs over months, possibly
>>>> years.
>>>>
>>> True, that. It did. A simple procedure resulted in bills from 4 or 5
>>> completely different organizations spread over 6 or 8 months. Just one
>>> of the reasons why American health care is the most expensive in the
>>> world.
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>> Three stitches and a tetanus shot--$500 from the doctor, I forget what
>> for the med, and $2000 "emergency room fee".
>>
> Yup. Of course, if you'd found the doctor on your own, it would have
> been cheaper. But you presumably didn't have the luxury of time to
> spend calling around to see who could take you and how much they'd
> charge. Some medical problems are like that.
>
> The inflated emergency room fee was probably one of the ways that
> hospital covered the cost of people who didn't have insurance, and
> couldn't pay. They are required to treat everybody who comes through
> the door.
Many emergency rooms are a separate company. And the fee is more
likely to cover people who go to the emergency room and don't pay.
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| Re: free, huh, was Bitcoin confusion? [message #363463 is a reply to message #363441] |
Wed, 14 February 2018 13:28  |
Anne & Lynn Wheel
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JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
> Many emergency rooms are a separate company. And the fee is more
> likely to cover people who go to the emergency room and don't pay.
I once had case where admitted to emergency room, admitting took all my
insurance info which was paid. Turns out emergency room doctors was a
different corporation ... with billing run out of a company several
states away. I got hassling phone calls for 6months because they
couldn't figure out the insurance info ... i kept telling them if the
emergency room could figure it out why couldn't the emergency room
doctors use the same information. that wasn't in the script for the
person on the other end of the phone line. Emergency room doctors didn't
have the information available to emergency room admitting
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