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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-26-09 11:25 AM
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7. Oh, and the other half of the insurance industry scheme,
the no-pay slow-pay game.

Changing treatment decisions to deny payment after treatment has been done or failing that, taking months (in some cases years) to pay off on patient treatments. Having half a mill floating around in an AR won't pay your staff's salaries or your mortgage.
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  -The Medical Cost No One Wants to Talk About terrell9584  Dec-26-09 11:12 AM   #0 
  - medical malpractice insurance can be as high  WhiteTara   Dec-26-09 11:14 AM   #1 
  - Under Single Payer, Malpractice Insurance would cost WAY less  demodonkey   Dec-26-09 11:17 AM   #3 
  - They can only charge that  terrell9584   Dec-26-09 11:19 AM   #4 
  - Oh, and the other half of the insurance industry scheme,  Greyhound   Dec-26-09 11:25 AM   #7 
  - community health centers  WhiteTara   Dec-26-09 11:26 AM   #8 
  - Baloney! Costs didn't go down in states that limit malpratice payouts.  SharonAnn   Dec-26-09 11:31 AM   #9 
  - no, they went down in states that limited  WhiteTara   Dec-26-09 01:49 PM   #20 
  - Bingo.  JoeyT   Dec-27-09 07:35 AM   #22 
  - If doctors better policed each other, cost would go down.  Zoeisright   Dec-26-09 12:19 PM   #16 
  - We do need more docs.  avaistheone1   Dec-26-09 11:17 AM   #2 
  - Absolutely! This has been a problem for many, many years. ARtifically limiting supply.  SharonAnn   Dec-26-09 11:32 AM   #10 
  - Limit plumbers in the same way & it would cost $20,000 to have a toilet installed.  polpilot   Dec-26-09 11:55 AM   #13 
  - This is the #1 reason. DOUBLE or TRIPLE physician output. Crank 'em out.  polpilot   Dec-26-09 11:52 AM   #12 
  - Written like someone that has run into the artificial barriers of Medical profession.  Greyhound   Dec-26-09 11:21 AM   #5 
  - Pretty damning  area51   Dec-26-09 11:24 AM   #6 
  - Yep. My wife just got a 2-page letter from her oncologist that was little more than  stopbush   Dec-26-09 11:38 AM   #11 
  - Oncologists are either cold hearted assholes  undeterred   Dec-26-09 12:12 PM   #15 
  - That is a tough sell, because they can always argue that some of  treestar   Dec-26-09 11:56 AM   #14 
  - It's all true.  tonysam   Dec-26-09 12:21 PM   #17 
  - Yes there need to be more slots  juno jones   Dec-26-09 01:19 PM   #18 
  - HALF right; half WRONG  northernlights   Dec-26-09 01:34 PM   #19 
  - We could be more like Italy. More doctors with lower fees. Also more Nurse Practitioners  WeCanWorkItOut   Dec-26-09 07:40 PM   #21 
 

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