How do you pay your doctor?

Normal people pay in chickens like our parents did.

I've had very good health insurance all of my adult life... and I do NOT take that for granted...

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Um, that's OTHER!

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about people paying their medical bills with baskets corn, catfish, and even several squirrels and their medical bill was paid in full.

Those stories were not told to get a laugh but to enforce the importance of recognizing when a person tries to pay her/his debts with the best they had.

A lesson that still echos in my mind all these decades later.

Sometimes it's not the actual value of the payment that matters but the intent.

from that era. Lots of things in The Doctor Stories harken back to that era.

fear we have lost our understanding of others that made them such great humanitarians in their communities.

Again, thanks for the book title, it's on my gift list for children and grandchildren. :hi:

or they can bargain with me for their pay

So I'm paying him in goats and broccoli.

Since abby didn't have insurance, we applied for financial assistance and the hospital covered the whole $1500, but i had insurance so for the hospital i have a $200 copay and for the doctor we are looking at about $1000 for both abby and myself. and i had insurance. now, i look at the bills and see what the insurance company paid for and how much i am being charged to pay cash and wonder if i can't get the doctor to friggin give me a break! i am being charged $100 for a well baby check up for abby when the insurance is paying $50!

LOVE the photo

When I moved to this small town 30 years ago, I serviced peoples cars at their house as needed. Oil Changes, exhaust, brakes whatever. I went to the local doctor and when he heard I worked on cars he asked if I'd take a look at his VW bus. I fixed his exhaust at a huge savings over the local dealer and he has been forever grateful. A couple of years ago, I went for a physical, which I do every 4 or 5 years and when I told him I was waiting for the health care reform to kick in before getting the blood sample tested as I really wasn't interested in spending the $350 the clinic charges. (I didn't mind his $70 bill for the usual questions and answers and ass probe). He gave me the paperwork so I could get the blood test whenever I got to it and I left. Well the Massachusetts healthcare reform came in. The policies start at about $800 mo. So of course I never signed up...I've got a high deductible major medical policy which is really cheap. I still have the paperwork, but never got the blood test. The Doc is used to working with those who can't or don't want to pay and thinks nothing of my situation. Should I take my tools to the blood lab and see if anyone needs a tuneup?

I think the chicken shit thing would work as well as anything the GOP has come up with over the years. That is; NOT WELL.

I LOVE your photo

And I hope he doesn't order tests.

Sooner or later he gets paid by me, which is not always the case when he bills his patient's insurance companies.

...because, I have, really really really, paid my dentist in iPods!

That's the single most popular method of compensation in the health care "market". It narrowly edged out "Accompanying my physician to the Porsche dealership and letting his kid pick out her favorite color."

Thats how I pay.