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Mindcrime

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Date: Oct 23, 2008

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OK, OK, I stole the title from Reader's Digest. But when I read this it was the first thing I thought of... Hospital bills woman who never saw a doctor DALLAS - A woman says she waited 19 hours at Parkland Memorial Hospital's emergency department for treatment of a broken leg and never did get to see a doctor but still got a bill for $162. Amber Joy Milbrodt, who said she broke a bone in her leg while playing volleyball, received the bill two weeks after her Sept. 24 visit. Parkland officials say the bill was appropriate because a nurse spent time checking her vital signs to assess her level of need. But that's not how Milbrodt sees it. "It should have been more like them paying me for having to sit in the emergency room for 19 hours," she told The Dallas Morning News. The assessment by the nurse, which lasted a few minutes, established her place in line that night. By that time, Milbrodt said, she had already been waiting about 3½ hours. She still had not been called more than 15 hours later, so she gave up and went home. She had an X-ray taken at a chiropractic school where she is a student, and that had already confirmed that she had a fracture. "She's not paying for waiting," says Rick Rhine, the hospital's vice president in charge of billing. "She's paying for the assessment she received." Story Link WTF!?!? -- Edited by Mindcrime at 09:38, 2008-10-23 __________________ Your Focus Determines Your Reality

BUFWINGS

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Date: Oct 23, 2008

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As amazing as this sounds, it doesn't totally surprise me (how sad is that?). The health care in this country is ridiculous... (do I sense another thread coming on???).... I was charged two cents for an aspirin one time. Come on... really??? Luckily, Community Blue paid it. :) __________________

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