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 It is not right when someone with no insurance 
is CHARGED a higher fee than someone with insurance.  A fee should be a 
fee and should be uniform throughout a practice.


Funny, out here, no insurance you get a discount........

Anyway, why should government be involved in setting fees to begin with?
Lawyers do pro-bono work.
Doctors do also, and setting fees will stop them from doing pro-bono.
My sister, with a very deadly cancer, got pro-bono both from her cancer doc 
and from the surgeon), and they treated her non-stop for 26 months.
The drug company gave her the chemo meds for free also - amazingly.

I'm not saying everyone is gonna get free - just that a uniform mandated 
price structure will remove that discretion.

Now, if patients on the other hand could get advertised PRICES posted and 
know in advance,,,,,,,,,,,, they would would have real choice ! 
It would cause free market competition !



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  As it is now, the rich have the
> greatest medical choices, and the services diminish with decreasing
> income.  For those who have no job or are self employed, they can't
> afford doctors at all.  It is not right when someone with no insurance
> is CHARGED a higher fee than someone with insurance.  A fee should be a
> fee and should be uniform throughout a practice.

I've rarely gone to the doctor, but when I had no health insurance, the
doctor's office cost only $32, and he gave me enough free samples to treat
my sinus infection. Of course if I'd had to go into the hospital, I'd be
bankrupt.

My mother has Medicare, and she gets the best  medical care. They will send
her for any test they think she needs, keep her in the hospital or rehab
center as long as they think she needs it, have lots of  after-care...nurses
and therapists come to her house to work with her. It never costs her a cent
(she also has Blue Cross, which pays out far less than the $200/month she
pays for it). I don't see how she could get better care, short of hiring a
live-in doctor. I signed up for Medicaid (so I don't get forced into
something by Obamacare)...from what I understand, I would get the same
treatment that my mother gets. So at least the old and the very poor get
good medical care :-)

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA