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"However, I am not aware that there is anything that prohibits a doctor from negotiating a fee with a self-insured patient..."

~Yet.

"...just the same as he negotiates with the various insurance plans with which he participates."

Remember what we spoke of in a prior discussion concerning the American Leftist-Socialist's attempt(s) to *break* our system?

Well?

Phase One: Remove free market rules governing the Healthcare Industry.
Phase Two: MAKE healthcare a, "right."
(1 & 2 totally interchangeable...)

That'll give us Socialized Medicine if they pull this off -- no matter WHAT they wind-up calling it or WHO we're told they're "trying to reach" -- which'll be *precisley* how this thing shall be marketed to the American masses.
~Just watch & see.

This attempt is, IMO, but-one of the Liberal-Socialist's multi-pronged attacks upon Capitalism; targeted at a specific industry but, designed to capture the whole magilla in the end.

Hillary-Care is alive & well.
(& now a *Big* thank you to the citizens of New York is in order too for allowing that monster-bitch to run amok.)

This happens here?
The Canadians can finally stay home for own healthcare, eh?

...& just think of the gas savings. {g}