Dannj

I thought the cartoon was funny🤪

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

How about "the guy with a wart on his dick" please follow me, the doctor is ready to cut it off.

Dannj

“Oh no, Nurse Baxter!! I told you to prick his boil!!!”

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

My friend I am an Idaho resident and a Colorado resident before that. I have not paid taxes to California since the 1970’s.

Dennis

no12mo

I can think of another way to say this but it would not be politically correct

wrangler5 Loc: Missouri

I see my primary care physician and caradiologist every 6 months. I've always scheduled them sequentially, beginning first thing in the day (because I have to fast for the blood test, and I get hungry). Yesterday I was told I couldn't see them on the same day because insurance. Apparently the insurance company can't tell whether it's different doctors in the 25-doctor office seeing me for different things or one doctor charging twice for seeing me once, so they will only pay one doctor from a single address for seeing a particular patient. The other doctor never gets paid. So now I have to schedule appointments for these guys on separate days.

The only consolation is that the government isn't running the whole "health care" system (yet). That would get things even more screwed up.

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

Most of our GPs are minions of the Insurance Corps. Same thing.
I've been wheeled out of the hospital on a gurney, then wheeled back in as a "new" admission.

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

And it's only getting worse!!

Don

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

Every time I've been in a hospital, I get to see ghosts. Invisible doctors.
There's a sign in clipboard by the door- to keep the nurses honest, they need to sign in with the time. Doctors sign in, also. There's always 1 or 2 you never see. Or maybe just the back of one.
Just had another one. He comes, signs in- "EverybodyOK?Fine" and leaves. That's another $95 per patient. 2 or 3 of us in that room.There's a lot of rooms. This is what he does for lunchtime. Weekends are easier- he calls the nurses station, asks for patient status- and as long as he asks by name, it's legal.

As far as supplies costs, the hospital is doing itself a little CYA accounting. Sometimes patients don't have insurance, or enough insurance; sometimes supplies don't get logged out; sometimes insurance is "examining" why more was used here than there. So the hospital basically adds up cost plus overhead, and divides the costs among it's paying customers.

The ones here use matrix management. 30 billing means after that it's either late or a loss. If/when the
Insurance Corps pays the bill (my ambulance took 6 months!) if that payment isnot directly specified to be applied to my charge, it goes into another account. That;s how hospitals can claim they're going broke; and why health care costs rise; yet the hospitals still make millions in profit.

EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace

Sorry, my mistake. Since your location shows "So California/Colorado/Idaho" I thought you might migrate between those states during the year. Some UHH members will list their location as "Florida/New York" or something similar because they spend the winters in Florida and the summers in New York for some reason.

BamaTexan Loc: Deep in the heart of Texas

There ain't no free healthcare any more than there is a free lunch and you know it!

EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace

I already went through this with dennis2146. Try to keep up, would you.

Quaking Aspen Loc: Cottage Grove, OR

This reminds me of some gag envelopes a friend had that had, in large print, in the return address space:

"HERPES TEST RESULTS, PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL"

BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

Shouldn't they really be called 'Asteroids'?

JADAV

I'm going to get immediately to the head of the queue by calling in for an appointment with suspected Ebola virus infection! Announcing it myself on arrival the waiting room is going to empty in seconds.