@Boron -- Your example is why you, and every other medical professional who refuses to charge the same price for the same service to all comers should go to prison -- and that's when I'm feeling charitable.
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no matter insurance coverage from which I never requested any benefits for the following:
1. I always charged Catholic (I am not) clergy $0.00
You stole the cost of that procedure from another customer.
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2. I always charged the immediate family of any practicing/retired dentist $0.00
You stole the cost of that procedure from another customer.
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3. I always charged my physician's immediate family $0.00
You stole the cost of that procedure from another customer.
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4. I always charged several families whom I knew to be poor as church mice $0.00
for my services
You stole the cost of that procedure from another customer.
AND, you did so by fixing prices, which is a 10 year federal felony for each instance under 15 USC Chapter 1, and you did so because you, and the other endodontists in the area, all refused to post a level price which everyone paid. This allowed you to tell the NEXT customer that HIS root canal cost $1,200 when in fact what you really did
was make him pay the $600 for the member of the clergy along with this own $600, and you did it through deliberate subterfuge.
In short you arrogated to yourself the right to force
someone else to pay for a procedure that any person who you "deemed worthy" at your
sole whim.
You believe by dint of your dental "license" you have the right to
steal unlimited amounts of money from other people, subject only to your particular determination that some person "deserves" to be the beneficiary of theft from someone else.
You should be in prison for the rest of your life and you, along with your entire blood line, should also be asset-stripped to your underwear as EVERY BIT of what you took from others and your bloodline enjoyed as a result during your career with this outrageous scheme was in fact THEFT.You have in fact illustrated EXACTLY why the bill I put forward must become law and why the ENFORCEMENT of said 100+ year old anti-trust law in regard to EVERY practitioner in the medical field is so important. Were such law to have been enforced your ass would have gone to prison YEARS AGO and given the TEN YEAR prison term for EACH offense, consecutively,
worms would get fed by your corpse before you'd ever see the outside of said prison again.