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Here's an FYI for those tending wounds on chickens. Maggie had her side torn wide open by Bruce when he was breeding her. He doesn't have spurs that are worthy of mentioning, but she's a reluctant breeder to say the least. It looked like someone took a hatchet to her side. I felt so bad about it. I put her in a cage, and tried bag balm, but it's just so thick and hard to work with on wounds like that. So, I thunked, and started to research the benefits of coconut oil. I use it on my own skin and found that it's also excellent at wound care. So, I warmed some up, and applied that with a cotton ball. Repeating the process every other day. Maggie's wound has been healing from the inside out, and is doing remarkably well. In addition to healing, it encourages collagen production which causes skin to grow back. I think it's just another one of those miracle items that can be used around the farm.
 
The people paying out of pocket with no insurance or medicare to help them with costs.
Yep. One wonders what the REAL cost of the services is. Probably more than the insurance companies pay and less than the uninsured pay.

Single Payer Health Care anyone???

Here's the kick. The medical center got just under 1000.00$ from Medicare and me. The rent a doctor who took care of me was 2000.00 added in with that total.
And what did they do that added up to $30K???

Last I went to the ER it cost $350 out of pocket. The only thing the doctor did was get me an appointment with a specialist the next day. The same specialist whose office I had called earlier KNOWING what and who I needed. And I told them that. They told me no appointments for a month, go to the ER.
 
Yep. One wonders what the REAL cost of the services is. Probably more than the insurance companies pay and less than the uninsured pay.

Single Payer Health Care anyone???


And what did they do that added up to $30K???

Last I went to the ER it cost $350 out of pocket. The only thing the doctor did was get me an appointment with a specialist the next day. The same specialist whose office I had called earlier KNOWING what and who I needed. And I told them that. They told me no appointments for a month, go to the ER.
Well it was a total of 13,000+ not 30. If they had said it was 30,000 I'd be back there with a stroke.

The One that caused me to gasp was the CT scan. 6,000 for the freaking abdominal Scan with contrast!

As for the doctor, let's see, the nurse did my eval, he came in and talked to me (never touched me, never palped my abdomen nada) he ordered the CT and the labs and the EKG. Told me he bet I had diverticulitis, read the EKG and interpreted the report from the CT lab. Told me I had colitis and gastritis, not diverticulitis....actually I did have diverticulitis and he should have sent me home on antibiotics which I had to call my own doctor's office to order for me. Did he do 2000 dollars worth of work.....ummmm 2000 dollars per hour? No wait, probably more like per half hour. Man I picked the wrong profession. But in the end he didn't get 2000 from Medicare. he got whatever they paid plus the 38$ they billed me for. It's the poor soul with no insurance who would have paid the full charges.

I don't think a single payer is the answer. I like my idea better. Herd together all the insurance companies and run em off a cliff.

A friend of my husband's is having some heart issues that his doctor ordered a sonogram for. The hospital couldn't do it until the end of January. Say WHAT? ER= free pass to the head of the line to get a CT scan done but have a heart issue and you have to wait till late January to get a Sono done?

What's wrong with that picture?
 
Cap you need to put the diamond mine in Arkansas on your bucket list.https://www.arkansasstateparks.com/parks/crater-diamonds-state-park

Folks have been finding some really nice diamonds there recently. It'd be a bit of a drive but I think it would be a blast to go there. They go through there on occasion and till the soil, bringing up fresh subsoil to search through. I think I read where the last one found was last summer, a yellow diamond multi caret and worth thousands of dollars. Guy found it laying ontop of the freshly tilled soil. If you find a diamond, you get to keep it and name it.
I had read about that one, would be great fun to go!
 

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