Good case for Eddie Haskell to pursue

[edludes]

My recent arthroscopic knee surgery netted my doctor $4200 for an hours work.He did very well and me and my meniscus are back to full speed in three months,but thats a pretty penny for what has been aptly called routine surgery.Talk about bilking insurance companies:they call the act of pulling out the floating cartlege in your knee one procedure and charge $2800 for that.Then they call the act of sewing up or filing down the injured part where the "floating" stuff has come torn loose from a "second" procedure and charge another $2800 for that!!!It was explained to me beforehand that the insurance company would "only pay half of the second procedure,and that then the doctor will waive the balance to the patient"!This is why health insurance costs are the #1 rising cost in business today.What a laugh.$168,000 a 40 hour week,$28,000,000 a year.Who can make a case any doctor performing routine knee surgery is worth this? (By the way,this 66 year old guy hunted grizzly bear with a bow for kicks.Most people say you can't bring one of those down with even a handgun and advise that if you try you better save the last bullet for yourself.So if his billing procedures don't prove he has a lot of nerve,his hunting preference sure does!)

 

[saint]

My recent arthroscopic knee surgery netted my doctor $4200 for an hours work.

I'm not completely justifying those charges, but remember for that hour of work he went to 10 more years of additional education and a spent a boatload of money and sacrifice on his education to have the knowledge to fix your knee up.

 

[Eddie Haskell]

And how many hours do you think I spent in the law library to learn how to prepare a 33 1/3% contingency fee contract and to set up my network of chiropractors, pulp puke?

Eddie

 

[dr. freeze]

Why dr. freeze doesn't like lawyers:

1. I see a lacking of honesty. There never was a person who would want an honest lawyer.

2. The court system is a joke. It is currently used as a lottery system to award people $$> Anyone honest would agree to this. I don't understand why lawyers refuse to address this problem....well i do...$$. Doctors attempt to address problems in their industry. But anytime you try to address problems such as geriatrics physicians abusing the system you get countersued. Another lawyer causing you problems.

3. I do way to much unneccesary paperwork. Its a pain in the ass and it all is a result of litigation.

4. I make too many decisions based on how not to be sued. That is bad medicine. It is not cost effective either.

5. I am sick and tired of hearing and reading equivocal consults -- you get these from any consult in medicine, any pathology report, and any radiology report. Why are they equivocal you may ask? I dont want to get sued.

6. This one involves career testifiers. Some doctors make 75-80%++ of their income testifying. And they will say almost anything to get that $$. Currently medical associations are trying to crack down on this abuse. But guess who again sticks up for the crooked physician? Trial lawyers.....

7. Juries are selected to be uneducated so that emotion is the end all in the court room. Reason is thrown out the window. Anyone feels sympathetic for someone whom life has thrown a curveball. The kid who is born with cerebral palsy and the family involved has a tough road ahead. Now using exactly no science to blame the doctor is not only wrong but it is cruel.

8. Time spent in the courtroom costs lots of $$ for doctors, their employees and it also hurts patients as lists get backed up further. This time and $$ is not ever reimbursed.

I got more problems, but those are a few. And i dont see the legal community addressing any of these. The medical community is trying to correct its problems -- and no not every doctor likes insurance companies. I already have wrote how i think it is ridiculous how our copay system works and also how any routine checkup is now paid for by "insurance" forcing more paperwork into the field and further driving up costs to the consumer.

I have big beefs with hospital administration as well but I still believe to change things the legal system needs to be cleaned up first. The courts need to be taken back.

Tax accountants generally support the Republican party, and to be honest, I dont know what good they do either. The tax code's complexity has basically created many of these jobs unnecessarily.

So there you have it. I have family who are lawyers, and we remain civil when discussing matters. No one needs to get all bent on character assassination. If you wish to discuss the former points i made, i would love to. But to resort to insults with 7th grade humor is a waste of my time.

 

[saint]

And how many hours do you think I spent in the law library to learn how to prepare a 33 1/3% contingency fee contract and to set up my network of chiropractors, pulp puke?

Eddie

I didn't quote you, moron. See that name above the quote? That's the person who said it. I wasn't referring to you and your income, rather to edludes you geriatric gavel thumper.