Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration has moved to ban
physicians and hospitals from billing patients for the cost of services
above what their HMOs are willing to pay.
Such bills, which patient advocates call a consumer abuse, are the
product of a protracted feud between insurers and healthcare providers,
principally emergency room doctors, radiologists and anesthesiologists.
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Do you want to go to an emergency room where the doctors
are forced to work on you without pay?
I don't think so.
