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To: Gottfried who wrote (245389)2/24/2014 11:37:56 AM
From: Ron  Respond to of 542786
 
Thanks. Good article. I once made a hospital billing person explain every line of a bill to me, in person.
She was indignant. "Your insurance is paying most of it, why do you want to know?"

I explained I wanted to see how much each of the operating room nurses charged when each one filed through and asked me for my name, date of birth, and which eye was to have the lens put in. (There were 10 different nurses, in all.) Finally, when I awoke in the recovery room, they had put the bandage over the WRONG eye.



To: Gottfried who wrote (245389)2/24/2014 11:51:35 AM
From: Steve Lokness  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 542786
 
Seeing the high cost of hospital bills - how do we fix that? I mean hospitals - for the most part - are not getting rich. AND, it's only going to get worse as the baby boomers get old and as we continue to keep broken people alive. We save a patient from cancer, then we have to replace their hips and fix their glaucoma. None of that is bad - just expensive.


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