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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Kidlet #5's (the Marine) wife has a deadly heart condition.  She was not 
supposed to get pregnant.  She did and *she* decided to go forward with the 
pregnancy even though the odds, at best, were 50/50.  The *supposed* expert 
in the field who had been treating her dropped her because she wouldn't get 
an abortion.  The new doctor they found wasn't "approved" by the military, 
so he did all her care, and believe me it was a whole bunch of care, free.

Lynda
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we 
are
to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and
servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."  Theordore
Roosevelt, 1918.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie" <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>

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 !