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Where did I imply the patient is in the wrong?

At this point I think everyone decides you're trolling. I hope that's it, rather than just being so bad at understanding what the comment you're replying to is saying.

Seriously, where did I imply the patient is in the wrong?

I had more, but I'm cutting it to the minimum:

It sure sounds like you took the hospital's side in the dispute. You then didn't offer any clarifying details as to your stance-- instead going "huh-huh--- where did I say that?! where did I say that?!" This doesn't help communication, but it sure does help confrontation and wasting other people's effort in communicating with you.

Where did I take the hospital's side? I said the hospital made a mistake. I am not satisfied with the title of the report because I think the hospital's mistake had a valid reason, it's not an intentional scam. It's not like the hospital intentionally hide the price and then charged her with a high price for no reason. I think the out-of-network insurance mistake could actually happen. That's my whole point. You guys are second-guessing my intention. It's not my fault at all.

You could have clarified that at any point without having lots of whiny, shill-sounding comments.

> It's not like the hospital intentionally hide the price and then charged her with a high price

Actually, this is exactly the practice with chargemasters: no one is able to know the price because the hospital holds the pricing information confidential.

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