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angstlessk

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2. I went to the emergency room when I broke my collar bone

Reply to True Earthling (Original post)

Wed Mar 23, 2016, 09:21 PM

Mar 2016

Had I known there is nothing that can be done...I have scarves at home, and aspirin..

BUT they gave me an xray of my shoulder....FINE

But also, they gave me a chest xray and a cat scan!!!!

Final bill $3,000

I asked why the cat scan, and they said in case you hit your head when you fell!!!! I never hit my head, never said I hit my head..it was a hospital bill enhancer!

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30% of all healthcare spending is waste...$750B a year..more than the military budget [View all] True Earthling Mar 2016 OP

Like the doctors that give antibiotics... scscholar Mar 2016 #1

I went to the emergency room when I broke my collar bone angstlessk Mar 2016 #2

You call it waste. moondust Mar 2016 #3

Slow down there a little bit. basselope Mar 2016 #4

Put doctors on salaries. But then the problem reverses Recursion Mar 2016 #5

Doesn't that depend on why they became doctors? basselope Mar 2016 #13

That same argument applies right now Recursion Mar 2016 #15

You'd have to read my post from earlier... basselope Mar 2016 #16

This has been known for years. HuckleB Mar 2016 #6

Nope, you can't blame this one on insurance. It's even worse with Medicare. Recursion Mar 2016 #7

Yes, I can. HuckleB Mar 2016 #8

Well, sure, you can, if you don't mind ignoring the actual problem Recursion Mar 2016 #9

That doesn't change the reality of private health care bureaucracy. HuckleB Mar 2016 #10

Because you aren't actually saying anything. There's nothing to "see" Recursion Mar 2016 #11

You keep pretending. HuckleB Mar 2016 #12

It's not. Private insurance overhead is about 2% of health care spending Recursion Mar 2016 #14

That's absolutely untrue. Overhead was 30% of insurance cost before Obamacare brought it to ~20% hedda_foil Mar 2016 #17

And? Recursion Mar 2016 #18