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Originally Posted by Sandy G
Amen, Charles ! I've gotten I dunno how many bills from this Doctor's Group or that Medical Association for all the "consulting" work they did when I had my Bariatric Surgery back in Feb...Most of these jokers I never even saw-and don't remember many of the ones I DID see, I was pretty well high the whole time I was in there. But ever one of 'em wants at least $250-300 for stickin' his nose in the door-and God Bless Blue Cross-for some reason, almost NONE of this "consulting" is covered, don't meet deductible, haven't met the deductible, blah blah feckin' blah...Its ALL a big gawdam racket, if you ask me. OTOH, I've had relatively few problems from this operation, & have lost so far, 105 lbs, so I spose its been worth it...
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I'm impressed, you're doin' good. I could stand to lose 50, but it ain't gonna happen if I keep poppin' the tops on these Silver Bullits. I prefer Heineken, but it has too much horsepower.
Back when we were poor, and I mean dirt poor, my wife wound up with a couple of surgeries, once without insurance, and once with lousy insurance. To tell the truth, unless you have really good insurance, you're almost better off without it.
It's amazing the bloodsuckers who come crawling out of the woodwork. The pathagoligists? (can't spell for shit) were the one's that really got to me. I didn't see that they did anything other than send me a bill. I'll skip the $10 asprins and the $20 plastic piss pot.
Anyway, both times I wrote them a form letter, filled in their names, and how much I was going to send them each month. And we paid them off.
As to the lousy insurance we had. The insurance company said that we had been overcharged, and applied what they said was a fair charge to the deductable, which was everyone but the hospital, and paid them off. By the way, they were in cahoots with the hospital. In other words, we were stuck owing four separate people at the same time.
When I queried the young lady for the insurance company on the phone, as to why they did what they did, she said, "Well, we saved you a lot of money. Actually, we saved ourselves a lot of money."
Well, I'll give her points for honesty.
Finally, after a few years, the rest of them gave us the rate which the insurance company said was fair. Thank God.
When we had no insurance, we got the good rate from the get go.
Something out there stinks.
Gimmie Doc Gallagher with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth.
Chas