Posted on 09/21/2014 7:24:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The system is not broken, it is functioning exactly the way new world order wants it to.
If you study new world order (minus the disinformation) you will develop an understanding.
How interesting! I do it the other way around and it usually just costs me a few bottles of wine and some regret./s
I hope everything is ok?
So what does one do?
For an er visit with a kidney stone the bill was 3 grand PLUS a grand for the er doc. Four grand an hour equivalent. I won’t pay it. I offered 650. Still excessive. They turned the offer down.
Nobody is worth a four grand an hour.
Medicine is more like theft.
So what happened?
Satanic cover for the 2008 failed bailout. And when that failed thus the rabid push and bribes to pass Extortion-Care. “care” for the bailout.
Yours is an example of why the focus needs to remain on amending health insurance and not on amending health care.
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I would imagine it's just the tip of the iceberg.
Yes everything was fine. Thanks for asking.
Who found themselves holding the bag 2008?
Did the 08 “bailout” succeed?
Thus the rabid bribery to establish Extortion-Care as a Work Camp.
What with the advances in modern medicine they can tell you exactly how sick you are, after draining your bank account.
Nothing so spectacular for myself. I was at a heart doctor a week ago to get a stress test and they asked for a co-pay. I thought it would be the usual such as $20 that the eye doctor and regular doctor ask for.
They wanted $200..... that would explain the people laying on the floor around me, some dead, some gasping for air....
I did not get that stress test but an ultrasound. the stress test had to be schedule later as Aetna would not pay if both were done or so I was told. See next post for more.
In short I cannot get the test the doctor wanted because I hadn’t had a heart attack yet.
I can get the test once I do get the heart attack.......
Coverage Decision For:
9335 Echocardiography, transthoracic, includes M-mode recording when performed, during rest and
CV stress test using treadmill, bicycle and/or pharmacologically induced stress; including
performance of continuous ECG monitoring, with physician supervision
Coverage for this services has been denied for the following reason:
We are unable to approve the requested procedure based on MedSolutions Cardiac Imaging
Guidelines. The clinical information provided does not describe the results of a recent history and/or
physical examination, meaningful contact with an established individual or, if appropriate, recent
EKG, chest x-ray, or echocardiogram.
This coverage denial was based on the terms of the member’s benefit plan. The plan does not cover
services that are not medically necessary. Please see the reference to non-medically necessary
services listed in the Exclusions section of the benefit booklet/handbook or refer to the description of
You can look all over (even in Cali) and find MRIs done for $300-$500, but my wife gets hers done at work (she's an RN, works in the hospital) and I see they are billed at $2200. In the last 15 years NMR technology has advanced enough to probably make it possible to mass produce the things so every drug store could have one, like the automatic BP machines. However the non-technology cost of fielding them (ie insurance) is way too high for that. Lots of smart people have worked on NMR and I remember folks building desktop units 15 years ago, but I don't find any for sale today. Actually there are a bunch of interesting technologies like that where modern methods go wanting because the effect of insurance costs on margin beat innovation by smaller startups into a paste. Look at general aviation. Only when the cost of the insurance is a pittance compared to the bottom line do you see any advancement.
Not just illegals but people with no insurance, no incomes and no way to collect from them. Others with incomes who just don't want to pay..........
And look at the number of trained medical personnel in a typical hospital emergency room that have to get paid and the cost of the medical equipment that goes along with saving lives.........
Christiana Hospital in Wilmington, DE operates, in addition to the hospital, multiple off-site doctors’ offices. Last year, I noticed a $23 charge for “facility fee”. On the bill, it showed a $74 payment by Medicare and a $77 adjustment, leaving me a balance of $26.
This was for a doctor’s office visit, in addition to the doctor’s bill, for nothing. Medicare increased the charge because it what the hospital should have charged. Long and short of it, Christiana Hospital has sent this to a collection agency. I am not responsible for their mistakes and will not pay when no services where performed.
I HAVE REFUSED TO PAY AND WILL CONTINUE TO REFUSE.
They are trying to make a profit. They have to treat anyone who walks in and can’t pay, so they soak the unfortunate individuals who have a job. Just another government-sponsored transfer of wealth from those who earn it to those who vote democrat.
Yup-The ER is THEIR family doctor.
They don’t pay so OUR bill is padded to cover the losses
Unreal. My son was born few years earlier and company insurance paid for everything except $300.
Couple years ago I suffered a mini-stroke after a chiropractor twisted my neck too hard.
Went to the ER where, theoretically, I should have been seen *immediately* to receive the shot that minimizes stroke damage, ~if~ it’s given within a two hour “window”.
*Seven hours later*, after all the “protected classes” had their snotty noses and belly aches attended to, I was sent for an MRI.
Too late to “see” anything and way too late for the ‘miracle shot’.
Living with after effects.
Hope all those parasites ahead of me enjoy their lives.
*My* ER copay was $100, besides the costs for the now-useless tests.
How much did they cough up, that night?
Hubby and I were the only two there who were melanin-challenged.
We didn’t matter.
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