The chicken feet are for soup. The Polish and Hungarians make great soup.
CW ----- Original Message ----- From: "rigsy03" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PoliticalForum" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 05:36 Subject: Re: Hospitals See Drop in Paying Patients I just saw trays of chicken feet today in my favorite supermarket! They cater to Whites, Blacks and Hispanics so you never know what will pop up.// I am sorry you were injured and hope you make a full recovery. I consider hospitals dangerous places what with staph infections and screw-ups in medications but I suppose I get that suspicion from my parents. A friend has wound up in a nursing home with a paralysed leg after bad back surgery, etc. But he visited too many doctors before and they had him coming and going with meds and learned guesses. Having great insurance is no reason to use it like a dance card of old. Doctors and hospitals have learned how to work the system. Don't get me started with my mother's exit from life. On Nov 8, 2:07�pm, THE ANNOINTED ONE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the flip side.... > > three years ago I had the bones in my left leg (directly above and > below the joint) smashed like a chicken bone under a hammer. > > 8 hour surgery, some 15 pins and screws (still have two) three weeks > in hospital, cast for 10 months, 11 round trips by ambulance (100+ > miles each way), two weeks of inpatient rehab, one month out-patient > rehab three times a week, all drugs, MRI's, Xrays etc included.... > > 3000 dollars.total. �Hospital has US/German certification. Great > doctors, nurses and therapists. > > On Nov 8, 10:03�am, studio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > All I know is that I've been paying my hospital bills... > > in cash. > > > What I don't do is pay what the first bill says I should. > > I ask for a discount, and they give me one. > > > My initial hospital bill was a quaint arbitrary number for > > $43,000....$5,000 a day for just the room I stayed. > > > The discount was almost 75%, which meant I paid $11,000 in the end... > > *if* I paid within 10 days...so I did. > > If I wasn't able to pay within 10 days, I would be responsible for > > paying the full $43,000 in monthly payments. > > > If I would have had insurance, the insurance companies would > > have probably paid at least 50% of that. > > > The doctors bills and other services were separate from the hospital > > bill... > > the doctors like making arbitrary numbers also, but in their case, > > they > > won't give you a discount unless you share your total financial > > background > > with them, and if you have more than $7,500 in liquid assets, you > > have > > to pay the whole amount. > > > One doctor I have to pay $2,000 for what amounts to be about 2 hours > > work, > > of which the tests he did were a total waste of time and showed > > nothing useful. > > > I'm now looking forward to my new hospital bill...it should initially > > be > > somewhere around $50,000.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
