"rangerssuck" wrote in message On
Jan 25, 1:29 pm, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:16:46 -0500, "Phil Kangas"





wrote:

"Bob Engelhardt" wrote in message
Good! People need to be more self reliant. And use
family when they need help. This reliance on government
is ruining this country.

And hospitals should stop accepting people who can't
pay!
That just promotes the same somebody-take-care-of-me.
This country was built on people taking care of
themselves!

/SARCASM

Bob

Hospitals should stop charging exorbitant rates! Like
$5000 per hour for MRI? $2200 per day for ICU?
Like $1000 per ambulance trip of 25 miles one way?
Or charging by the pill and not the dosage of it?
And $22,000 for a pacemaker (still in the package)?
Costs need to come down no matter who pays.
phil

Yes indeed. I was charged $75,000 for 4 days in a room
with a heart
monitor, 2 IVs, 4 pills and crappy food. Oh..and (2) 2
minute visits
from a doctor.

How could they do this? Because it was in Intensive Care
ward. I saw
people twice a day when they fed me, and I wandered all
over the
hospital trying to find stuff to read.

**** yes..$75 THOUSAND dollars for 4 days at Motel 6

Gunner


ranger dared to write:
So go build your own hospital intensive care ward and
charge what you
think is fair. Lord knows you have enough tools to do it.

(I was thinking of replying, "So ask for a refund," but
then I
remembered that for this huge bill you're complaining
about, you
haven't paid a dime. So STFU.

So 2 1/2 years ago I spent 4 days in the hospital with
congestive
heart failure and with the 30 % discount if paid within 30
days
I paid about $8000. So I got off 'cheap' but I managed to
pay
my way so you rangerssuck can STFU! and KMA....
phil kangas