soul2share
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Joined: 12/18/2007 From: somewhere out there..... Status: offline
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Well, week number 2 at the new job...it's going okay....totally mindless work, which suits me just fine. It's mostly young girls on the afternoon shift, so it can get to be some kind of hen party.....overall, it's not a bad place to be for me right now. The job is processing paperwork for Blue Cross and Medicare.....I can see now why doctors hate to accept Medicare......they get about 30%, and that may be high, of what they'd normally get for their services. No matter what anyone says about the cost of medical care, what they are getting back from medicare doesn't even cover the expenses of doing things. This isn't to trigger any political nonsense or anything, just an observation. Yes, everyone has an opinion on the cost of health care, and personally, I think it's out of control, but doctors should be able to make a living too! On a related note....when I got the explanation of the bill for my appendectomy a few years ago, the original total was slightly over $32,000....however, there was a "hospital discount" of about $24,000, bringing the actual payment of just a bit over $8000....WTF is with the discount????? I didn't understand that.....why not just charge the $8000 instead? Go figure!
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I have to stop saying "How stupid can you be?"...people are starting to take it as a challenge! *Not a fuck was given.*
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