Reply #9: health care fraud

[ninehippies]

My experience as both self-paying patient and one who has received state help with medical care: it's not the people receiving medical care that are the problem, it's the middle men. Once as a self-payer, I was charged $10. for a small tube of vaseline. Who sees the real cost when insurance 'pays' for it? Recently I had to question some additional charges on a state-covered eye exam for my daughter. And then someone tried to steer me toward pricier frames since the state was covering costs. It's the contracted businesses that are bilking the government health providers, not the recipients of care.