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Title: You're saying I can't pay you cash money to perform the procedure you're in business to perform?
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URL Source: http://www.healthiertalk.com
Published: Mar 4, 2009
Author: Jenny Thompson
Post Date: 2009-03-04 08:45:56 by richard9151
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Views: 186
Comments: 7
I recently had a minor surgical procedure – outpatient – no big deal. During my follow-up appointment my doctor said he needed to have me get a simple follow-up test to confirm that everything looked okay. When I called to make an appointment at the radiology center my doctor prefers, I was told that my insurance wouldn't cover most of the cost at their center. Since it was my doctor's center of choice, I asked what the out-of-pocket cost would be. The woman on the phone asked me to hold a moment, and when she came back she informed me they couldn't accept direct payment. Excuse me? I was sure I misunderstood. You're saying I can't pay you cash money to perform the procedure you're in business to perform? No. They wouldn't let me pay for it myself because I had insurance coverage. Here's where you look around for the hidden camera. This is a joke, right? Please tell me we haven't come to a point where a health service will close the door in your face because you aren't covered by the insurance companies they've chosen to do business with. It's insane! And this is just a small part of what we're up against when it comes to fixing the deep bureaucracy of our overburdened health care system. I think that fix is going to be harder than we ever imagined. www.healthiertalk.com ">Click for Full Text!
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#1. To: richard9151 (#0)
With Universal Health Care, you won't be able to get care that isn't covered by the government. Paying for it yourself will be emphatically illegal, since any product or service whose production is under socialized/ collectivized control must be rationed: There is always a shortage of any socialized/collectivized goods/services, and when there is a shortage, there is a compelling political necessity for such goods/services to be rationed based on political considerations, not based on ability to pay.
 | "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C. S. Lewis |
#2. To: richard9151 (#0)
Just wait. My family in Canada and Great Britain insist we're all just going to love Fascist Health Care in amerrrrrrriKa ! -end sarcasm-
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#3. To: sourcery (#1)
The useful idiots could care less. They're too damned stooooooopid, self-centered and dependent to even understand.
With Universal Health Care, you won't be able to get care that isn't covered by the government. Paying for it yourself will be emphatically illegal, since any product or service whose production is under socialized/ collectivized control must be rationed: There is always a shortage of any socialized/collectivized goods/services, and when there is a shortage, there is a compelling political necessity for such goods/services to be rationed based on political considerations, not based on ability to pay.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#4. To: richard9151 (#0)
I am missing some info here so my comments are indirect: First off, any health service center that "accepts" your insurance will accept whatever your insurance company pays at your atandard co-pay - although, my ortho waves my co-pay. Secondly, a health service provider is forbidden under any number of laws to deny you its services whether you have been referred or have insuarance or not. The terms of your insurance may require a referral tho. Thirdly, I am unaware of any health service provider whose policy it is to accept insurance, who will not bill your out of network provider, see what they are paid and then bill you the difference.
Here's where you look around for the hidden camera. This is a joke, right? Please tell me we haven't come to a point where a health service will close the door in your face because you aren't covered by the insurance companies they've chosen to do business with.
#5. To: Rotara (#2)
I had a son attend school in Canada and I have had a son be twice injured over the years in hockey tourneys up there. The health care was good, quick and cheap. In one instance, he was seen, diagnosed and treated for a broken arm all in an hour and a half. Cost to me as a non_Canadian nationial was $75.00. His prescription was $12.00 or two buckk more than my co-pay.
#6. To: sourcery, REDPANTHER, NO HEALTH CARE PING (#1)
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With Universal Health Care, you won't be able to get care that isn't covered by the government. Paying for it yourself will be emphatically illegal, since any product or service whose production is under socialized/ collectivized control must be rationed
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ALAS, BABYLON
#7. To: war (#5)
Whaaaat? How DARE you suggest that those eeeeeeviilllll commie red-diaper Leninist Bolshevik Stalinists up in Commieanada provide something superior to our wonderful, red white and blue God-blessed free-market profit driven NON-SOCIALIST glorious fatherland profits uber alles wonderfulness incarnate perfection based Jesus-blessed best of all possible worlds health care system here in Amerikka! You must be a SOCIALIST! EEEEEEEKKKK! You're EVIL incarnate, how dare you pollute our marvelous perfect in all ways free-market money-driven best possible system money can buy American health-care system with your deranged SOCIALISTIC nonsense? Quick! Get this heretic to a rubber room and shoot him up full of American corporate-made antipsychotics and mood stabilizers until he's ready to behave himself! Now here's your flag, wave it when we tell you to, and if you point out the "made in China" sticker on it we'll really get upset with you...
I had a son attend school in Canada and I have had a son be twice injured over the years in hockey tourneys up there. The health care was good, quick and cheap. In one instance, he was seen, diagnosed and treated for a broken arm all in an hour and a half. Cost to me as a non_Canadian nationial was $75.00. His prescription was $12.00 or two buckk more than my co-pay.
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