🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Sep19.174335.3316@unixg.ubc.ca> buckland@ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland) writes:
> I figure the current creeping opting-out by groups of physicians
> in medium size communities affords a chance to worry at this bone
> once more.
> 
> This time I'll leave out the apocalyptic and emotional stuff, and
> confine myself to one worry: once physicians are collecting from
> the patient, and leaving it to the patient to collect from the
> insurance corporation, what's to prevent them charging more than
> the patient will be able to collect?  My dentist does this,
> admittedly by a small margin - but even a small margin would concern 
> me if he advocated one of the godawfully expensive restorative
> procedures that have replaced drill-or-yank nowadays.
> 
> My worry would be taken care of if the doctors made an unconditional
> commitment to charge no more than the patient could recover, but I
> have seen no hint of such a commitment.  Has anyone else?

Heres the way I look at.  If my doctor starts billing me, then I'm going
to a different doctor.  My wife and I just had a baby, and I don't
even want to think want emotional stress would have been involved if
we had to pay and then get reimbursed.


Gordon McFadden

My views are mine.