"when you're ill, it isn't really the optimum time for being ready to negotiate. You just want treatment. ASAP. If possible in time to save your life."

Well, true, depending on how ill you are....but I have found that doctors, if you have a rapport with them, (not the receptionist, or a nurse), you can work something out.....if not, find one to whom you can, they're out there...besides, if you pay cash, it is now, and doesn't suck up the paperwork time, and time lag insurance companies pay the doctors at..which they(the doctors) claim is about 30%.

Besides that subject: Remember a little while back, I told you all, that the dollar was going to depreciate, just after the elections, no matter who won....well the AIG, Merrill Lynch, Leymann Bros., mess,and the 'Fed' bailing them out, well that's just the beginning...When the 'Fed' pumps 85 billion dollars into a private company, what happens when you just 'print up' more money???...it devalues the existing money...and more and more becomes federalized. Just what this idiot told you, in one of my 'drivels'(I think it was)...so....eat crow!

Your Loving Driveler,
Guest from Sanity