[Lizavetta]

It also shows the workings of the medical market - when insurers refused to pay, requiring customers to dig into their own pockets for the tests, scanning centers found themselves cutting prices to compete. Within a year, some centers said, prices fell to less than $500 from $1,000 or more.

This needs to be repeated over and over and over and over again.

INSURERS WERE OUT OF THE PICTURE AND THE PRICE PLUMMETED.

[anniegetyourgun]

You caught that, did you?!!!! I guess it's still a dirty little secret though.....

[anniegetyourgun]

Oh, and don't expect the NYTimes to put two and two together to come up with four on this little cat the let out of the bag!

[Spirited]

And I don't trust a hospital scan reader. They have a vested interest in getting you to take more tests, etc. I would prefer to pay for it myself and receive the results myself having seen to it that the scanner has no alliances to certain doctors or hospitals. I also want, in case of positive readings to have access to the results to be read by my own chosen reader.

Do you suppose that I haven't had experiences making me wary of "the system"? Any system.