I am wondering about some bills that I received. I needed to have a cataract removed and replaced so I asked my eye doctor what the cost was going to be.Since I didn't have any health insurance when it was discovered, I was going to have to foot the bill. He said, "3 thousand to 35 hundred". I think, OK, fine, I can come up with that easy enough. Well, I get the bill from him and it's actually less, around 27 hundred and I'm smiling. Then yesterday I get a bill from the hospital, 11,000 dollars! Is this the normal practice, when I asked the doctor what the cost was going to be, I meant the whole thing. When you ask somebody what it's going to cost, would be safe to assume you mean the whole thing? When you ask the mechanic what it's going to cost to rebuild your engine, you don't expect him to say 500 dollars and then you go to pick up the car and there is a 6 thousand dollar garage use fee. Well I guess I know where any "extra" income is going to go for the next year or so. BTW, I was in the outpatient surgery center for about an hour and a half for the whole thing.
