As we restocked the Earth Module the Commander and I drove around Mesa. At the corners were signs offering to buy used diabetic test strips. Kadizzle's curiosity got the best of him. What in the hell is this about he thought. Kadizzle thought used meant already urinated on. Well that is not the case. What they want are the extra ones still in the box. How insane can American medicine get? Kadizzle went on line to find out.
A person with health insurance buys the strips for ten dollars. The insurance company is billed for forty dollars. The company with the sign shows up and gives the insured person $20 for the strips he paid $10 for. Now, a person with no health insurance goes on line and buys the strips for $30. This insane scheme could happen in no country but this one. It would be so much simpler to insure the person in the middle than to pay the other two people to carry out the fraud, but that is how it works in the free enterprise system. Absolutely insane.
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