“It’s as if you went to your mechanic for a tuneup and agreed upon a price of 50 bucks, but after you left, the mechanic noticed that your transmission was bad, replaced it without your permission, and then billed you for services and charges you never agreed to.”
You just don’t get it. Mechanics have their businesses and work scrutinized by other mechanics, the BBB, lawyers, consumer advocates, city and state attorneys general, and so on. The medical profession is answerable only to itself (any state “regulators” are usually in on the game). I pointed out to a co-worker who worked for a health insurance company that medicine was the only kind of business in the US operating with no guarantee or warranty whatsoever, expressed or implied. She said, “well, that’s why they call it “medical practice”. I wonder when a pharmaceutical company will develop the guts to sell a prescription medicine with a “works or your money back” statement.
Huh? What don’t I get? I used the mechanic example to highlight to another poster that this is an example of consumer fraud, and not just some guy whining about having to pay his medical bills. I wasn’t making any comparison as to the oversight of the two industries.