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I agree Houston,
These medical equipment dealers are way out of line and I've expressed my opinion on this many times.
It also seems to me that their's a massive waste in used equipment such as power wheelchairs the paper is full of near new chairs for a fraction of the price and if insurance companies made the effort to work with medical equipment dealers they could buy these chairs have them serviced and sell refurbished chairs with a warranty this could bring the price down. I mean you can buy a used $16,000 for $2-$3,000 at any time on ebay or your local news paper.
As far as tort reform I think it's a joke and insurance companies are not going to start cutting premiums if this passes. This issue is nothing more than big corporations getting what they paid for in the 2004 election.
Not trying to start a political post but that's my opinion.
Mark
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Date: Thursday, January 06, 2005 12:16:18 AM
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I believe "some" medical charges and co payments would be cheaper if Doctors didn't have to do extra and repetitive tests if they were not afraid of laws suits saying possibly they over looked something by not taking enough tests even though their years of experience already gave them the results of most tests beforehand. I think that the medical equipment companies are bigger rip offs. When I pay $75 for a rear wheel chair tire x2 plus $75 labor or a used control joystick w/o control box for $750 or when my invacare salesman solicits me a tilt chair for $23,000 with a 20% co pay when I see a 2004 fully loaded Mercury Marquis for $24,000 something's wrong.
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