[Vision2020] [Spam 3.51] Re: Another Answer to School Shootings . . .

[Joe Campbell]

One correction: Denmark is likely less rotten than the US in this respect.
Joe

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Robert Dickow <dickow at turbonet.com> wrote:

> Everybody, don’t forget that this is a Free Market, where insurance
> companies and health care providers are in business to make a profit. They
> have every right to charge my brother $90,000 for a saliva gland duct
> blockage surgery, $763 for 2 stitches and a Johnson&Johnson bandaid on my
> wife’s small scissors cut, and $45,000 for my broken ankle. And $28,000 for
> my two 2-hour out patient kidney stone treatments. You know, once I had a
> $1100 MRI scan in the US. They only cost $100 in Japan (an I don’t think
> the patient pays that even). Something is rotten in Denmark people!****
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> Private insurance for anything raises the prices on everything, not just
> the insurance. I went to a local auto body shop once to get a side view
> mirror fixed. I was asked up front if it was ‘an insurance job’ or was I
> paying for it myself. When I said it was just me, the guy said ‘good,
> ‘cause it’s a lot cheaper then.’****
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> Bob Dickow, troublemaker****
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> Heath care is expensive. Maybe it shouldn't be but it is. …<snip> ****
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