On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:09:09 -0700, Tim Attwood wrote:

> One reason for the high cost of medical stuff is that medicare only pays
> about 20% of what they are billed for. So a doctor might order up extra
> tests just to pad the bill up enough to break even money wise.

The only way the math works with that, though, is if the extra tests 
themselves have no cost associated with them....and then it would be 
called "fraud".

Jim

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