Do we dare discuss the Supreme Court decision re: Healthcare

[Randi]

I went to the doctor last week. As I was leaving, I asked for a bill (I have a big deductible, I know I have to pay for the visit). Again, I heard, "we don't know what the charge will be...it depends on your insurance". LOL. It shouldn't! The charge should be what the charge should be. A doctor's ten minutes in the exam room with the patient.

Of course the charge should be what the charge will be, not what they can "get out of it"! Anything else sounds like a banana republic.

[RICHARD]

Ind. woman accused of embezzling $300K from pet insurance firm
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First Posted: July 04, 2012 - 4:01 am
Last Updated: July 04, 2012



JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — A southern Indiana woman faces dozens of forgery and theft charges alleging that she embezzled more than $300,000 from a pet insurance company.

Christina Heaven of Jeffersonville has been charged with 59 forgery and theft counts accusing her of embezzlement from PetFirst Healthcare. Her trial is scheduled for November.

The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky., reports (http://cjky.it/O25Yra ) the 35-year-old Heaven was an administrative worker at the Jeffersonville company. She's accused of using her boss's social security number to open a secret checking account in the PetFirst name with a credit card account in 2010.

Heaven allegedly deposited checks from PetFirst customers totaling $314,723 into that checking account and then withdrew $293,703.


Brandon Smith, one of Heaven's attorneys, urged the public "not to rush to judgment before the evidence is available."


___

This would NEVER happen to a human insurance company.....