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Racist Doc Appears As 'Expert' on Glenn Beck Show

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~Fianna10/18/2009 1:24:47 pm PDT

re: #339 The Shadow Do

That is terrible. The hospital should be ashamed, and publicly shamed. There is competition among hospitals where I live and reputations are valued. Not so much where your were evidently.

We’ve got one public hospital. It’s chronically underfunded.

It’s also fairly common to charge cash patients more than insurance patients. Part of how insurance is successful is that it negotiates costs based on referring patients. The hospital knows that being party of, say, Cigna’s network will bring it patients, so it gives Cigna a discount for their group.

Cash patients have no leverage and also have fewer options, and the service has already been rendered, so what can you do?