re: #76 karmic_inquisitor

She is a trauma surgeon.

She usually has them in the recovery room before the issue of payment comes up. So she never has any idea whether the person on the table is a payer or not.

So, I gather she simply gets paid a salary by the hospital? Tell her that there will be immediate savings then - ‘cuz her paycheck will get cut when the hospital starts losing money. Somewhere in the news within the last 2 days is a story about a hospital in Boston suing the state because of the losses they’re taking under RomneyCare.