" ...My last visits to a doctor were ridiculous as a doctor ordered every test possible to cover his insured butt... ."
It's up to us to call the doctor's offices and hospitals on these unnecessary tests and charges. if we are recouping from knee service and don't feel the in-home rehab care which is offered - or the potty chair - or the wheelchair - is necessary, we should decline them.
We should, in effect, be part of the quality control of the rising costs of healthcare.
When we take a hospital or doctor's bill and don't put it under scrutiny - because our health insurance is going to pay it anyway - we are ignoring a responsibility to keep the health insurance system and medical care system honest. ---- as honest as these two systems can be.
Easy to say when one knows they are unnecessary. A little harder call to make when it comes to tumors, eh?