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[SJC <indexer AT localnet.com>]

> BTW the HMO we had at the time would have covered any kind of expensive 
> hospital birth, but not the Birth Center prenatal care or birth...we had to 
> pay the $700 out of pocket.
>  
> Lynn Wigglesworth
>   
Why Lynn, how could you get away without paying all those intake fees, 
fees for taking your vital signs, labor room fees, prep fees, 
anesthesiology fees (whether or not you 'needed' anesthesia you 'should' 
have paid to have one standing by), blah, blah, blah fees.  You weren't 
playing the game by the right rules!  Shamey, shamey!  You'll now pay 
the price:  pay your own bill!

It is indeed a disgusting system, having nothing to do with getting a 
healthy infant from pillar to post.   My kids are in their 30s and 40s 
now and boy, we had wars back then, just to do what people have done for 
eons.  Sad thing is, I don't see a lot of improvement in 40 years....

SJ, in Maine