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sheshe2

(83,754 posts)
2. Our health care providers of today...such stellar individuals.
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 02:59 AM
Feb 2013

It's show me the money or we show you the door. Why should the Sean Recchi's of the world have sit in pain and suffering while the hospital sits in front of their computers waiting an watching to see if a check has cleared. Most business's have a policy of seven to ten working days for a check to clear. Are hospitals going to ask their patients to be patient!

I so love the word "Non Profit" for these hospitals..what an oxymoron.

And in our largest cities, the system offers lavish paychecks even to midlevel hospital managers, like the 14 administrators at New York City’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center who are paid over $500,000 a year, including six who make over $1 million.

Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/#ixzz2LbmVicu7


Thanks, patrice, keep it coming until someone hears.
Do not even get me started on this, I could easily write liberalhistorian Feb 2013 #1
Case histories such as this are useful. If you can document dates and such patrice Feb 2013 #4
Yes, I do intend to start documenting liberalhistorian Feb 2013 #8
Good! No huge hurry. This issue is NOT going away. period. patrice Feb 2013 #9
Our health care providers of today...such stellar individuals. sheshe2 Feb 2013 #2
I will try to post one good article a day and put it in my journal, so when it's patrice Feb 2013 #3
CNN/AC360 has done two segments in conjunction with this report. moondust Feb 2013 #5
K&R This is only the start of it and why I oppose the ACA so strongly.Thanks Patrice. n/t Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #6
ACA brought profiteering DOWN to 20%. Less would be better, but... Festivito Feb 2013 #10
No, it really isn't. It puts upward pressure on costs by, oh never mind... Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #12
No! to your no, because, yes, it is better than what we had. Festivito Feb 2013 #13
Out there with all the other geniuses* being locked out of the discussion by the corporate Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #14
Not smart enough to get by that roadblock. Me neither. Festivito Feb 2013 #15
Medical parts suppliers are some of the worst. They're essentially a cartel in everything but name. Selatius Feb 2013 #7
Public-private 'partnership' without *strong* controls on profiteering is the worst of all possible HiPointDem Feb 2013 #11
Recommend jsr Feb 2013 #16
Comment by Don McCanne of PNHP eridani Feb 2013 #17
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