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To: MrLee

You can’t be “greedy” in medicine...price is regulated...The government and the private insurance companies determine the cost of services...I don’t understand your point.


22 posted on 06/08/2008 5:05:27 PM PDT by TortReformer
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To: TortReformer

“The government and the private insurance companies determine the cost of services..”’

What planet are you on?? We have a dentist in this town that charges $250 for a routine extraction. The others were charging $75. Now all charge $250. Doesn’t look like regulation to me.


25 posted on 06/08/2008 5:08:52 PM PDT by MrLee (Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalyim!! God bless Eretz Israel.)
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To: TortReformer

Sounds like we have a couple of closet democrats commenting here. I was married to a surgeon for 30 yrs until his death. He worked 7 days a week rarely less than 14 hours a day. Missed almost all family holiday meals and celebrations due to emergencies. Missed many of our children’s events and almost missed the birth of our last child. He didn’t set his fees the insurance companies and gov. medicine did. When a call from the ER came he never asked if the patient had insurance took care of them and if they had no coverage and couldn’t pay he wrote it off. He was greatly loved and respected in our community. So I’d like to tell the a$$hat that worries about physicians banking their fees that they earn every damn dime. Incidentally 40% 0f what he earned went for office overhead and malpractice insurance. He provided health insurance for his office staff as well as profit sharing plans.


32 posted on 06/08/2008 5:29:21 PM PDT by mimaw
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