Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote in
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On 8/11/2011 2:30 PM, Gordon Shumway wrote:
On 11 Aug 2011 18:03:29 GMT, wrote:

wrote in news:a8552c7c-5604-4c2e-8a14-
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Reasonableness. I'm sorry that the pendulum has swung way in the
opposite direction butt he fact of the matter is that is has.
Adjust.

I have hardly ever complained about the salary I was getting.
Considering what it takes around here to live, a real cut in
disposable income for my kids here is a hardship. They would live,
even if I didn't help, but they would definitely spend less. And
the real issue is why healthcare costs are so crazy in the US,
compared to elsewhere. Example:

I broke my leg while on vacation in Holland (Wed, 7/7/10, ~10:30
AM). An ambulance crew picked me up and brought me to the local ER,
where they determined that both tibia and fibula were badly cracked
just above my ankle to halfway up my lower leg. A trauma orthopedic
surgeon said he needed to operate right away and put "plates" and
screws in my leg. Operation was done and by 2:30 I was out of
recovery in a semiprivate hospital room. On Friday afternoon I was
released, and was told it was OK to travel by train to Paris on
Saturday. Followup care here in Jersey had the orthopedist amazed
at the techniques used by the Dutch surgeon. For the hospital stay
including ambulance, OR, anesthesia and medications, the total bill
was less than 10K. It's difficult to compute because of the
changing exchange rates around that time. Luckily my insurance paid
except for a $250 deductible. Of course, no one but me paid for my
exchanging my tourist class seat for a first class one, so I could
keep my leg elevated during the flight to Newark. I'd love to know
what a similar operation and hospital stay would have cost
hereabouts.

The main reason for our high healthcare costs is the need for
malpractice insurance coverage for the medical community. Eliminate
that from the equation and our costs would be significantly lower.

I guess the bottom feeding lawyers are the legal systems counterpart
to the anointed ones desire to redistribute the wealth.

That truly is a big expense however if you take the insurance out of
the equation and every one would benefit. Think about a doctors
office that has a department/staff for simply collecting payment from
the insurance company. Then look at the big discounts that the
insurance company gets.

Indeed. A system where this was the price, and no bargaining is better.
Less staff to pay to do the arguing. Oops, more unemployed secretaries
....


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Best regards
Han
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