A friend of ine sent me this:
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Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 1:02 PM
To: John Reinke
Subject: Keeping NY Medicaid Fraud under control
http://www.nypost.com/business/when_nerds_attack_business_richard_wilner.htm
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To which I said:
Nice … BUT …
As we know, I have a “cheaper solution”. User pays.
Why am I paying taxes (I’m being robbed) to pay other people’s medical bills. After several layers of government take a swipe at the pile? If everyone had to pay for their own medical bills, (a) taxes lower; (b) medical costs lower; and (c) everyone would be a lot freer.
So for example, if you were paying for your Dad’s Rxes for him, how likely would it be that a doc or pharmacy would get money from you after his passing?
Or even better example, the psych who visited FKW in the hospital for 7 months every day 3 questions and billed 220$ per DAY! Got 201 from Medicare, 18.50 from hbcbsnj, and had the {expletive deleted} to bill him (me) for the other 50 cents. (.5 * 7 * 30) or 105$. My answer was “sue me”!
Arghhhhh.
Great that they are trying.
Lousy that we have such a crapy system to start with.
Argh!
Reinke Faces Life 