American Doctor's

**bighital** · 04-26-2009, 06:46 AM

Why the HELL do American Doctor's charge so much!!

**c-Z** · 04-26-2009, 07:49 AM

Welcome to america.... Home of the bullshit. Land of the free... Yet we can't do shit in this country.

**Someguy123** · 04-26-2009, 07:53 AM

free market economy. you can charge whatever people are willing to pay.

**Dirty_Daddy** · 04-26-2009, 07:55 AM

'Cause they get sued for everything ahahahhahaha...(joke?)

**viciouspoultry** · 04-26-2009, 08:12 AM

A lot of reasons, HMO structure causes a lot of waste, lots of lawsuits against doctors for malpractice, greed, ect.

**bighital** · 04-26-2009, 11:08 AM

I think it's GREED!!!!--HMO struture suck's--But the people on welfare and the people with AID'S get everything they want!!!

**JiGGaMaN** · 04-26-2009, 11:20 AM

what, did you expect them to charge just enough to get by? they went through the toughest damn schooling on earth, why shouldnt they?

**Akrobatik** · 04-26-2009, 11:24 AM

When you got to pay back $400,000 in student loands than they have to charge a shit load.

**JiGGaMaN** · 04-26-2009, 01:47 PM

a better question would be: Why do american doctors prescribe abusable/addictive drugs like its a godamned rave party? i live on the border between canada and the US and the difference in that regard is retarded. everyone knows someone whos on xanax or klonopin or adderall in the states. in canada people mostly got no idea.

**bighital** · 04-26-2009, 01:49 PM

LOL---More than half my company is on XANAX...

**Lightsout2184** · 04-26-2009, 03:30 PM

because law suits. a lot of doctors pay like 8 grand a month just to protect themselves also a lot of their clients dont pay so they have to make up for that somewhere.

**bighital** · 04-26-2009, 05:05 PM

Im just pist because I have LOW TEST Prob's and it is costing me a arm and a leg, $380 for blood work and my Health Ins sucks--So the Scripe my doc wrote for my TEST was ureal and the GEL is $300 for the pump, my Ins cover 4 Test Gel @ $50 after that it's $300 and on top of that the doctor wants me back once a month @ $50 a pop..I feel like they should give me a break now..

**Matt** · 04-26-2009, 05:08 PM

All free in the UK......

**strength_addict14** · 04-26-2009, 05:20 PM

Originally Posted by MAD MATT

All free in the UK......

Free if you dont include the huge taxes your socialist country charges bro...

**bighital** · 04-26-2009, 05:22 PM

This past thursday cost me $700 total!!!

**Lightsout2184** · 04-26-2009, 05:25 PM

Originally Posted by bighital

Im just pist because I have LOW TEST Prob's and it is costing me a arm and a leg, $380 for blood work and my Health Ins sucks--So the Scripe my doc wrote for my TEST was ureal and the GEL is $300 for the pump, my Ins cover 4 Test Gel @ $50 after that it's $300 and on top of that the doctor wants me back once a month @ $50 a pop..I feel like they should give me a break now..

honestly he probably gets to keep very little of that but on the up and up u should have just gone to a nice government financed clinic. there is a real good one by my house and they hook it up.

**BrokenBricks** · 04-26-2009, 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by bighital

Im just pist because I have LOW TEST Prob's and it is costing me a arm and a leg, $380 for blood work and my Health Ins sucks--So the Scripe my doc wrote for my TEST was ureal and the GEL is $300 for the pump, my Ins cover 4 Test Gel @ $50 after that it's $300 and on top of that the doctor wants me back once a month @ $50 a pop..I feel like they should give me a break now..

What the pharmacy charges has nothing to do with the doctor. THe cost for blood work has nothing to do with the doctor.

$50 to see your doctor is totally reasonable.

**jimmyinkedup** · 04-26-2009, 05:39 PM

i give docs credit for one thing - fighting with the damn insurance companies. What a bunch of idiots THEY are. Half the time i think doctors rates are exorbitant (btw in this case $50 -= very reasonable) because the damn ins companies will only pay them a fraction of the claim.

**JiGGaMaN** · 04-26-2009, 05:46 PM

Originally Posted by bighital

LOL---More than half my company is on XANAX...

i sure hope your company isnt in the business of remembering things.

Originally Posted by Lightsout2184

because law suits. a lot of doctors pay like 8 grand a month just to protect themselves also a lot of their clients dont pay so they have to make up for that somewhere.

that has nothing to do with it. doctors would make tons whether they are getting sued or not. the $$$ is what makes them targets for getting sued though.

**The Deuce** · 04-26-2009, 05:57 PM

Isn't this in the wrong forum

**jfalco** · 04-26-2009, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by JiGGaMaN

a better question would be: Why do american doctors prescribe abusable/addictive drugs like its a godamned rave party? i live on the border between canada and the US and the difference in that regard is retarded. everyone knows someone whos on xanax or klonopin or adderall in the states. in canada people mostly got no idea.

Great post.

Another thing that pisses me off is the american "war on drugs". The most abused drugs in the U.S. are perscription drugs. The worst is oxycontin. This stuff is being used in massive quantities by addicts, yet it is only perscribed for the most severe pain, like the end stage of cancer. Why the f**k do the pharmacutical companies make so much of it. There shouldn't be enough available to supply all the junkies. If the U.S. government had any real interest in keeping its citizens off drugs they would go after the pharmacutical companies. Every junkie I've ever known started out on oxycontin and only switched to heroin when their habbit got too expensive.

Sorry about the highjack/rant.

**bighital** · 04-26-2009, 06:35 PM

JiGGaManN -- I agree with you on how I should of wrote the question..

jFalco--Your so right about oxycontin, My girlfriend was washing her car friday at the carwash and a young women went up to her and ask her if she had any Oxycotin she would sell her, that how bad it is!!!

**hero717** · 04-26-2009, 08:12 PM

oxy is the legal for of heroin if u guys didnt know...most peiople go from oxy then to heroin cause it easier to obtain then when they want to get off the take mehodone which is the high without the addicting factor just more ways to make cash....im gona make a heroin site lol

**Someguy123** · 04-27-2009, 07:28 AM

Originally Posted by JiGGaMaN

a better question would be: Why do american doctors prescribe abusable/addictive drugs like its a godamned rave party? i live on the border between canada and the US and the difference in that regard is retarded. everyone knows someone whos on xanax or klonopin or adderall in the states. in canada people mostly got no idea.

thats not quite true. doctors are just as sh!tty up here. they dont work for you, they work for the pharmeceutical companies. im in the process of looking for a new doctor, because everytime i go in, he just wants to prescribe me a new pill to mask the problem. instead of actually finding out whats wrong with me.

**Someguy123** · 04-27-2009, 07:35 AM

Originally Posted by JiGGaMaN

i sure hope your company isnt in the business of remembering things.

.

LOL, XANAX, lifes delete button.

**bighital** · 04-27-2009, 07:40 AM

Shit the Doc for 6 months was wrighting me scrips for TEST Gel, after 6 months and tons of money my level's went from 278 to 324--I swear he was helping his self and the drug company!!! I had to find another Doctor..

**jfalco** · 04-27-2009, 08:26 AM

Originally Posted by hero717

oxy is the legal for of heroin if u guys didnt know...most peiople go from oxy then to heroin cause it easier to obtain then when they want to get off the take mehodone which is the high without the addicting factor just more ways to make cash....im gona make a heroin site lol

sorry bro, but methadone is more addictive than heroin or oxycontin. methodone is closer to the addiction w/o the high, but methodone gets you high too, so it is basically just BS.

people switch to heroin because it is cheap. both are very easy to obtain.

**BrokenBricks** · 04-27-2009, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by Someguy123

thats not quite true. doctors are just as sh!tty up here. they dont work for you, they work for the pharmeceutical companies. im in the process of looking for a new doctor, because everytime i go in, he just wants to prescribe me a new pill to mask the problem. instead of actually finding out whats wrong with me.

I have been through medical school and most of residency. All of my friends have as well. None of us have ever gotten a thing from a drug company except maybe a half a dozen free meals over the last 6 years. None of us are thinking about drug companies or their interests and none of us change anything we do because of drug companies. There is *no* incentive to prescribe what a given company is pushing.

**Someguy123** · 04-27-2009, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by BrokenBricks

I have been through medical school and most of residency. All of my friends have as well. None of us have ever gotten a thing from a drug company except maybe a half a dozen free meals over the last 6 years. None of us are thinking about drug companies or their interests and none of us change anything we do because of drug companies. There is *no* incentive to prescribe what a given company is pushing.

well im glad you dont fall into the that category of doctor. but it is a very real thing that happens. the incentive to a doctor, is that they get you out the door as quick as possible. so they can see more patients in a day, and make more money. and i could even go as far to say its worse in canada. because they get paid by health care, every time you come in for an appointment. so if the first script they give you doesnt work. then you just have to come back and get a different drug, when they can charge health care for that visit too.

me and a few friends have all been through this crap. its generally not till you get to the point of seeing a specialist, that you find a doctor who actually cares about your health.

you might not think you work for the pharmeceutical companies. but think about how much actual natural healing techniques you learned in school. i doubt it was many. you mostly learn what you can prescribe to someone. and this isnt my own personal opinion. this is what ive been told by other doctors.