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To: Ilaine who wrote (121234)	6/21/2005 12:35:06 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793818

This is a valid observation Rand had about socialism - an inevitable consequence of it is that people end up hating each other. They hate Medicare patients, Medicaid patients, and welfare patients and most refuse to treat them.

To: Ilaine who wrote (121234)	6/21/2005 5:30:48 PM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 793818

they hate having to send the same paperwork in again and again in order to get paid. bill going through congress now to help pay with federal dollars (our money) to eliminate paper that the private medical industry will not do on their own.. like hmo and hospitals. they all have their systems , none talk to each other, you cannot send files over wireless communication. i do not think the people who work in medical industry back rooms have a lot to be proud about. further more. i have relatives who have corp. medical plans who fight with hmo's aetna's of the world to get approved for a drug. by the time , usually three to six months later the drugs are no longer requred or they have changed requirements to another drug and they start all over. I get bills from penn med ctr, and collection calls sometimes because i do not pay for the nurse to stick a needle in me to take blood. under the contract with medical provider they "penn med" eat the cost. Penn med says we got so many various providers and programs we cannot program the computer to catch the error. I tell them it states it on every payment and you used to read those until you went to electronic transfer. Now they want me to make copies every time and send it into them as they refuse to write off the ten dollars without documentation (huh). Last year some manager had a clerk sit down and enter twenty-eight bills for $10. each , they got mailed out to me. i owed $3.28 on the total package everything else was to be paid by themselves. three months later they wrote it off. Yes, i am saying let's find a system that collects from every worker medical insurance directly from paychecks. how it gets managed or distributed i could care less. It should reduce our hospital costs as it the insured payer who's rates keep going up. Next get the drug companies to stop the nonsense in advertisements , huge manpower overstaffing of sales people , some companies have five or six representatives calling on same doctor. A lot could be done by private firms to cut costs but for some reason they do not seem to have the incentive since they are so successful in getting whatever they want in congress.