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Originally Posted by flstf
Those are good points but in most cases even if you are concerned about controlling your medical costs there is little you can do about it. When you are taken to the hospital after an accident or serious illness there doesn't seem to be much you can do to negotiate how much they will charge you.
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When some people are injured on the job or in an auto accident, for example, it seems they can extend treatment for years.
A football player can break a bone and play the next week, but a clerical worker with a sore back from an auto accident might be classified as permanently disabled. One has a major incentive to get back to work, the other doesn't I am not suggesting that middle age women suck it up and become like football players, but I have seen some extreme abuses of the system. I have also seen the opposite, where people suffer in silence while doing the best they can. I hate the thought of good people paying for others who abuse the system.