[Info-vax] Just how much is 30, 000 pounds in US dollars? Basic programmers wanna know.

[Doug Phillips]

On Feb 1, 4:02 pm, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
undress to reply) wrote:
> In article
> <ba221e70-4613-4979-ad1d-fc62fbc7e... at n18g2000vbq.googlegroups.com>,
>
> Doug Phillips <dphil... at netscape.net> writes:
> > I've always wondered, if a person has both health insurance and life
> > insurance with the same company, does the company check to see which
> > policy would cost them less to pay out on?
>
> When I was a child in Texas, I remember that some funeral homes also had
> ambulances.  If the person died, and there were no other arrangements,
> then the owner of the ambulance got to handle the burial (and get paid
> for it).  Talk about a conflict of interest.
>

Sorry mam, yer hubby died from complications in transit. Now, this
particular model of casket has been very popular and we're running a
special on our genuine imitation marble headstones today.


> > Of course, with the government's current financial problems causing
> > slow payment to providers, fewer and fewer doctors are accepting
> > Medicare/Medicaid patients.
>
> Any country where a physician can refuse to accept a patient is not
> civilised.  


Maybe it's our use of the letter Z in words like "civilized" that has
caused some to question our civility ;-)

A physician might see a person who comes to them in need, but might
not accept that person as a regular patient. A doctor can only have so
many patients, and often it isn't the doctor's decision but the
organization for whom the doctor works that decides. Physicians with a
full practice will usually refer a new patient to someone more able to
take them on.

There are free clinics where doctors donate their services, and many
doctors allocate a limited number of "slots" to Medicare/Medicaid or
indigent patients, knowing that payment will not be quick or full or
at all. Some doctors would provide all of their services for free if
they could, but without sufficient income their practice wouldn't
survive. Some drive Rolls Royces and live in mansions. Such is life in
the U.S.A.