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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (134256)	3/22/2010 8:29:38 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542821

"she came back and told me $480.00 bucks " You should have asked the doc's fee, too. That bill was for the piece of equipment and the tech. I'll say it for you... "oh". Sorry 'bout that.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (134256)	3/22/2010 10:31:22 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 542821

I had a treadmill test today and being a wise consumer i asked what the price was. She said "I haven't got a clue - let me find out for you". When she came back and told me $480.00 bucks I said "oh". Did I shop for another test? Another doctor? Did I compare prices? Heck no and the very last thing on my mind was to think of switching insurance carriers. Good example, and it is paradigms like that that make me want a single payer as well. But--that would have been politically impossible today in the US. I'm not sure about this, but I think the way it will work eventually is that there will be multiple insurance carriers, they will have to present their plans to the public that does not get insurance through their company, and people will be able to select from them like they select from the plans their companies provide now. If the companies want to money, my guess (and hope) is that they will have to try to hold the line on costs. People who are healthy--or who think that they are healthy--will choose the lowest cost plan they can live with, and the insurance carriers will want as many of those people as they can get to pay the premiums that will pay for the others--and will pay their own salaries. Yes, there will be a lot of fine print to read. I too don't like that--I have a hard enough time reading normal size print these days.