One correction: Denmark is likely less rotten than the US in this respect. Joe<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Robert Dickow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dickow@turbonet.com" target="_blank">dickow@turbonet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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.’<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Bob Dickow, troublemaker<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:#1f497d">------</span><br>Heath care is expensive. Maybe it shouldn't be but it is. <span style="color:#1f497d">…<snip></span> <u></u><u></u></p>
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