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16. Insurance companies cost us all a LOT more than "abusive" patients ever could.

Thu Oct 29, 2015, 07:10 PM

Oct 2015

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Fareed Zakaria chooses the logical solution /nt think Oct 2015 #1

Yes, but Beowulf42 Oct 2015 #8

kickety-kick! secondwind Oct 2015 #2

K&R.... daleanime Oct 2015 #3

Zakaria is spot on. Two caveats though Yorktown Oct 2015 #4

"lest the system be abused" annabanana Oct 2015 #6

No. Like a group of giggling young women coming to the ED with "syncope" magical thyme Oct 2015 #10

Do those people have a co-pay now? IF so how does it stop them? Vincardog Oct 2015 #13

I don't know the specifics of their insurance. magical thyme Oct 2015 #15

Nah. I'm talking about benign visits (the bulk by number) Yorktown Oct 2015 #12

First off, define abuse. -none Oct 2015 #7

Second of all, prove abuse. JayhawkSD Oct 2015 #11

Thanks, excellent post dreamnightwind Oct 2015 #20

If you research abuse of the existing medical health care jwirr Oct 2015 #14

Kicked and recommended! Enthusiast Oct 2015 #5