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- From: chrz@tellabs.com (Peter Chrzanowski)
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- Subject: Re: Doctor ripoff, or just reality?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.001441.7288@tellab5.tellabs.com>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 00:14:41 GMT
- Article-I.D.: tellab5.1992Nov12.001441.7288
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- In article <1992Nov11.160714.29909@netcom.com>, strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
- >
- > The biggest doctor ripoff is emergency room treatment. I went into
- > the Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, CA with a sprained ankle.
- > Emergency room charges, X-ray charges, and a separate charge for the
- > physician to glance at the X-ray, say "It's just a sprain" and splint it
- > ($300) ran to almost $1000.
- >
-
- Around here, some for-profit hospitals have closed their emergency rooms.
-
- It seems the big ticket customers for ER service are either victims of
- car accidents or of violent crime.
-
- Car accident victims are likely to have medical insurance, but
- people presenting knife or gunshot wounds are often uninsured.
- Car accident victims are usually taken to the CLOSEST ER.
-
- Therefore, to be profitable, an ER must be located near the off-ramp
- of a major highway.
-