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RE: Weekend Freewrite -2/15/2020 - Single Prompt Option
@wakeupkitty Here we have a low income clinic, they have a sliding scale, you pay depending on your income a doctors visit costs us from 20 to 40 dollars and some things are free.
Here nothing is for free and we all pay the same. The hospitals are businesses they want to earn not heal. Already years ago a visit was over 80, they keep changing the rules. Made many promises but the only ones with a huge amount of savings are the insurances. 💕
@wakeupkitty I am afraid that is what will be here if it keeps going the way it is. My back doctor charges me less because I pay in cash, he gets 75 dollars a visit but charges me 50. He has done surgery on me and got the surgical center to donate the center for him and only charged me for the equipment he used. I feel very blessed and could never repay him for his kindness.
You have a great doctor and I think if you have less you can not pay the same. Health is decreasing because people avoid to visit a doctor and can not pay for medications. It's the same with the dentist.
They are no longer part of the health insurance so people no longer go. The dentist can ask any price he likes, there are many bad dentists and most do not accept you as a patient if you are not willing to visit them at least twice a year for a check-up. If you do not have the money to pay for it you skip the dentist.
@wakeupkitty yes dentist here are the same, we do not go unless a tooth is infected and if we have the money to pay.