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To: Selectric II who wrote (11306)	7/13/2004 1:34:55 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

What about Medicare forcing clinics to accept something like .35 on the dollar compared to their regular charges? Who do you suppose pays for that but the insured folks like me. Just another in the long list of reasons that health insurance is getting expensive.

To: Selectric II who wrote (11306)	7/13/2004 2:28:14 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Respond to of 90947

The myriad regulations controlling services and prices on one end, Really? Price controls? Hadn't heard of that. Service controls? Other than the State Medical Board...which is made up of doctors, and the insurance companies that tell doctors what they can and cannot do, there are no controls. The controls on how to practice are needed, but the controls on what procedures the doctor must use should never be dictated by insurance companies and HMO's. and the John Edwards litigation contingency pushing on the other has put the squeeze on. The left wants it to die, to justify socialization. I'll bet you cannot come up with one example of Edwards being involved in any frivolous medical lawsuits. There are a lot of doctors out there that need to be stopped. Medical malpractice suits are out of control, but all professions need to be checked by proper standards of care, and when these standards are willfully and wrongly ignored then someone may be taken to court for damages. We've had a myriad of cases where malpractice was obvious. Should these bad doctors slip through the cracks unscathed? Orca