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- From: thomasr@cpqhou.compaq.com (Thomas Rush)
- Subject: Re: Doctor ripoff, or just reality?
- Reply-To: thomasr@cpqhou.compaq.com (Thomas Rush)
- Organization: Compaq Computer Corporation
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 20:26:54 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.202654.25647@cpqhou.compaq.com>
- References: <1992Nov10.214207.10802@bradley.bradley.edu> <Uf0C8uW00YUnQ1TElU@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- In article <Uf0C8uW00YUnQ1TElU@andrew.cmu.edu> "Bartley R. Troyan" <bt26+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >> We expect that this stuff will be covered by the health
- >> insurance company, but we are still a bit enraged at this pricing.
- >>
- >> So tell me, is this normal, or is the doctor screwing
- >> us over?
- >
- >Of course it's normal--all doctors screw you over (well, most).
- >The dermatologist I went to charged me I don't know how much ($100 or
- >so) to remove a wart, but she didn't do it right and it came back
- >anyway.
- >
- >The costs just keep going up and we keep paying them in the form of
- >more costly insurance...and the insurance companies try to screw you
- >too by refusing to pay stuff that they should (at least mine does)
- >
- >That's why we need some changes made, Mr. Clinton...
- >
- >--Bart
-
- One of the reasons that health care has gotten so expensive is that
- we now expect to be reimbursed for every little visit to the doctor.
- We want low deductables.
-
- So once we have such a plan (with all the concomittent paperwork,
- both for the insurer and the insured), we feel that we have to get
- our money's worth -- we go to the doctor when we might not, were
- the bill ours to pay alone. And the doctor has less incentive to
- keep her rates down; after all, the patient has insurance, no?
-
- Perhaps we could take all the little scrapes and colds to nurse
- practitioners instead of MDs. Perhaps we could have insurance
- policies with high deductables, maybe $500/incident like on an
- auto policy. Perhaps we could eliminate the AMA's monopoly on
- licensed health care provision.
-
- Were those the kind of changes you had in mind, Bart? Somehow
- I don't thik they are the kinds of changes that Mr. Clinton has
- in mind.
-
-
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