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Date: February 2, 2008

Subject: State opens Website for hospital discounts

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The Introduction: If you are uninsured and need healthcare treatment then the information below will interest you. The same applies in the case of your families and friends. Apparently, they are reporting how consumers can shop and compare to save and get needed healthcare… 

QUOTE: The state introduced a Web site Tuesday that helps consumers find out how much hospitals are willing to discount care for uninsured patients.

The site makes California the second state in the country, after New York, to give consumers a tool to shop and compare charity care or discount payment policies.

"This will allow them to determine whether they are getting a fair shake. Uninsured people are likely to be charged three to four times what an insurance company pays for exactly the same service," said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, a consumer advocacy group.

Hospitals have been criticized in recent years for being overly aggressive in trying to collect payments from patients, many of whom were uninsured.

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Please read more at:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/23/BUOAUJPNF.DTL&feed=rss.business

Other Interesting Quoted Topics and Links for Access:

(Some Useful and Relevant Resources) 

Co-Payments Shown to Curb Number of Mammograms

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120112478627711103.html?mod=health_home_stories

12 Money Blunders That Could Cost You $1 Million

http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/26582/

For most Americans, personal relationships come first

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4021/is_2000_August/ai_65300653

Aroma Of Chocolate Chip Cookies Prompts Splurging On Expensive Sweaters

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080108140137.htm

Greenspan: Good chance of U.S. recession - Probability is at least 50 percent…

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22915257/

Best Buy sold infected digital picture frames - Factory-installed virus a threat…

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9058638&intsrc=hm_list

The Cure For Your Debt Hangover

http://www.kiplinger.com/columns/starting/archive/2008/st0116.htm

…The newest crop of anti-aging skin care ingredients ? Do they work?

http://women.webmd.com/features/more-hope-jar-anti-aging-skin-care-promise?ecd=wnl_lbt_013008

The biggest threat to proprietary systems and information is…trusted employees.

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/61426.html

Learning to eliminate hate - Middle school pupils get lessons in how to treat peers with respect

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5490244.html

LABOR DISPUTE DIVIDES RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY - Priests back workers… http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/27/BU91UD24P.DTL

America's Most Miserable Cities

http://www.forbes.com/business/2008/01/29/detroit-stockton-flint-biz-cz_kb_0130miserable.html?feed=rss_business

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