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From: Wes Groleau 
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George Conklin wrote:
>    Cash customers pay list price.  No one else does.

And "list price" is inflated whenever [1] the doctor
wants to make up for the lower fees the insurance plans
say he has to accept to be allowed to treat their patients.

[1] whenever,  meaning "almost always"

>    You hear of elderly people losing their homes because of bills for drugs,
> for example.  No one over 50 is going to escape being heavily medicated
> anymore.

I made it!  Two pills a day and one of them is probably unnecessary.

>    I asked a doctor once what something would cost.  His answer was that I
> was responsible for the entire amount, but insurance paid what it felt like.

-- 
Wes Groleau
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