Re: The Surgery - What Happened

David V. Loewe, Jr wrote:
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:45:54 -0400, Kip Williams <kiptw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
David V. Loewe, Jr wrote:
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:52:01 -0400, Kip Williams <kiptw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hospitals are in the business of making money. Thus they charge money for things.
The hospital in question (Barnes-Jewish/Washington University School
of Medicine) is a teaching hospital with a very large endowment. They
operated on me *before* I was approved for Medicaid.
My original post specified "a lot of" hospitals.
And I'm just noting something about the specific hospital involved in
my case.

Please pardon my defensiveness there. I won't try to excuse it.

Kip W
.

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