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Posted: 1/8/2002 12:18:28 PM EDT
[#1]
I'll take a stab at it (pun intended) and say $450.
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Posted: 1/8/2002 12:18:53 PM EDT
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I'm guessing $500.
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Posted: 1/8/2002 12:19:33 PM EDT
[#3]
at least a couple of hundred. several of them.
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Posted: 1/8/2002 12:20:02 PM EDT
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Since ERs are the solution of choice for people without insurance (takers), it is up to you (producers) to pay for your treatment, and theirs. As such, your bill for 4 sutures can run as high as $600 (let me know of I'm correct), while the crack whore can save her cash for another rock. Sorry, man. That's just the way it is.
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Posted: 1/8/2002 12:25:00 PM EDT
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I will guess $1,200.
ER bills are always a real shocker. |
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Posted: 1/8/2002 12:25:59 PM EDT
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Quoted: I will guess $1,200. ER bills are always a real shocker. Jesus Christ. Don't you ever watch "The Price is Right"? |
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Posted: 1/8/2002 12:28:47 PM EDT
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Quoted: I will guess $1,200. ER bills are always a real shocker. Sounds right to me. My last hospital visit was around $16k. But I had CT Scan, MRI, and a whole bunch of other test as well as a weeks stay. But I remember how each item listed was outrageous. |
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Posted: 1/8/2002 12:31:09 PM EDT
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It would be free if you were on medicare. You just paid THEIR bills too!
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Posted: 1/8/2002 12:32:50 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: I will guess $1,200. ER bills are always a real shocker. Jesus Christ. Don't you ever watch "The Price is Right"? $1 |
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Posted: 1/8/2002 12:36:18 PM EDT
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Wow, you guys are good. I was expecting around $200 but it was actually $527.
The market for medical care is an odd beast indeed. In fact, it's really not much of a "market" at all since consumers don't have enough information to do any real "shopping". And then there's also the fact that the people receiving the care often aren't the ones paying for it (at least not directly). And then there are all the obstacles for providers to entering the market -- it's not as if hospitals can pop up as easily as, say, Wal-Mart stores or McDonalds can. At least Hillary never got to make things worse. [BD] |
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Posted: 1/8/2002 12:37:19 PM EDT
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As soon as you say ER you quadruple the price of everything, so $1000 wouldnt be out of line
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Posted: 1/8/2002 12:39:20 PM EDT
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Sounds about right.I had a hospital bill of 289,000 in 1985.that just the hospital,not the idependent contractors bill.Which is about everyone walking around.
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Posted: 1/8/2002 12:41:00 PM EDT
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Quoted: Wow, you guys are good. I was expecting around $200 but it was actually $527. ] I win!!!!!!!!!!1 I win!!!!!!!!!!!!I'm the closest without overbidding!!!!!!!!! Uhhh, but WHAT did I win???? |
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Posted: 1/8/2002 12:47:16 PM EDT
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Garandman, you win the respect and admiration of your fellow AR15.com members... not that you didn't already have it. [:D]
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Posted: 1/8/2002 12:55:33 PM EDT
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Quoted: Garandman, you win the respect and admiration of your fellow AR15.com members... not that you didn't already have it. [:D] Well, OK, that's nice too.... ...but I was hoping more for one firearm of my choice from each of the members collections. [:D] Well, since that didn't work out, I'll take teh 'respect and admiration" thing. [:D] |
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Posted: 1/8/2002 4:55:24 PM EDT
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You have to pay extra for those who don't have insurance. AND who said we don't have socialized medical care? AIN'T America great?
You pay out the A$$ for insurance and some bum gets a free ticket. Don't it chap you right in the ..... |
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Posted: 1/8/2002 9:45:05 PM EDT
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Just wait until you are unemployed with no insurance at all, just like me, and have to turn to using the "When There Is No Doctor", "Emergency War Surgery" books along with medical supplies accumulated from fun shows.
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Posted: 1/8/2002 9:49:01 PM EDT
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I saw "accident" in the title to this thread and thought it was a thread by computerguy
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Posted: 1/9/2002 2:22:25 AM EDT
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Actually though high, it's par for the course.
My son's mosh pit accident to the scalp got him about $350 and all he got was a dressing and a tetanus shot. 5 min face time with the doc. Of course it was 2 hours to get to the exam room and another 30 min wait there. Even the ER staff is often outsourced, so you could a separate bill from them as well as any radiologist, pathologist, surgeon, or your regular MD if they see you there. All of this depends on your condition. The costs of the hospital infrastructure and staffing are very high, whether that one extra patient (you) walks in or not. Those costs have to be spread around, Which might explain the fiction of charging $9.50 for a tylenol and other war stories. So did they ask if you have guns? |
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Posted: 1/9/2002 4:33:21 AM EDT
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Of course it was 2 hours to get to the exam room and another 30 min wait there. It was the other way around for me: 30 minutes from the time I walked in the building until I went to the exam room, then a 2 hour wait in the exam room to see the doctor. I was tempted to turn the lights out so I could take a nap. [sleep] So did they ask if you have guns? Nope. But they were wondering why my head was wrapped in aluminum foil. [:D] |
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Posted: 1/9/2002 4:48:20 AM EDT
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Renamed, you got it right. No competition no check on cost. You enter in some requirement to get bids you will see cost spiral down. Never goin to happen though.
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