[Spridgets] I'm pissed

[Deikis, John G]

Larry,

You're gonna hear it from the gun and teabag crowd!

Duck!!!



Message: 19

Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 05:53:53 -0500

From: "Larry Daniels" <ladaniels at sbcglobal.net>

Subject: Re: [Spridgets] I'm pissed - No LBC

To: "Ron Soave" <soavero at yahoo.com>, "Spridgets"

      <spridgets at autox.team.net>

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Ron, my insurance company paid slightly less than $10,000 for my surgery
to

reattach my Achilles to my heel including all follow-up, etc.  The bill,


however, was twice that.  The deal the ins. co. negotiates with the
networks

is incredible.  Now, if you can't afford really good insurance like mine
(my

portion of the bill was a $50 co-pay) you end up paying the total bill
out

of pocket -- in this case nearly $20,000 versus my $50.  And you know
that

if the providers are only getting half of the bill paid by the ins. co.,


they need to jack the prices up for the rest to make up for it.  If you

can't afford the insurance, how in the hell are you going to pay the
bill?

You can't; you will lose everything over a damn doctor bill.  We need

national health care so the less well-off aren't constantly teetering on
the

edge of disaster over this.



Rant over.





LAD