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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (4155)	2/2/2008 9:36:49 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

a retail customer, someone without insurance and the same problem, would have paid $3112. What's wrong with this picture? Part of what's wrong with your picture is that we don't know what an uninsured person pays. All we know is the billing price submitted to the insurance company, which could be just for show. What we need is to hear from some uninsured person who got an MRI there.

To: Road Walker who wrote (4155)	2/2/2008 2:41:04 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 42652

That is an interesting anecdote and your conclusion is exactly backwards of the truth. The people who have the least don't pay for medical care, they get the service done in the most expensive venue (ER) and then stiff the hospital. If the hospital is lucky they can receive partial reimbursement from medicaide. BTW Are those negotiated rates or are they Medicare rates? You sem to have neglected to leave off a vital piece of information without which it cannot be meaningfully evaluated. (I wonder if that was an accident.)