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Re: Credit reports anybody?
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Date: 
Fri, 19 Mar 1999 20:54:16 GMT
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Mike Stanley wrote:

Beth Reiten <breiten@net-art.de> wrote:
(rant deleted to save everybody's sanity)

I hear you.  I needed my medical records from a hospital once that
wanted to charge me the same kind of outrageous fee.  When I told them
I wouldn't pay them a buck a page to make a nickel photocopy so I'd
like to take them to Kinko's and copy them myself they said no.  Don't
remember the reason.


The reason?  They "own" your records, and you leaving with them is tantamount to theft.
Just for fun: try touching your file the next time you have an appointment!

Beth



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(...) Maybe. Their justification for charging me a buck a page was they had to pay their employee to do that. I asked if the employee made $60/hour since I figured he or she could probably copy a page per minute at minimum. Didn't appreciate the (...) (26 years ago, 19-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: Credit reports anybody?
 
(...) I've been faced with this insanity twice. Once I had to convince a doc-in-the-box clinic to give me x-ray films to take to my real doctor. They eventually agreed with the provision that I would bring them back next time I was near. I figured (...) (26 years ago, 22-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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(...) I hear you. I needed my medical records from a hospital once that wanted to charge me the same kind of outrageous fee. When I told them I wouldn't pay them a buck a page to make a nickel photocopy so I'd like to take them to Kinko's and copy (...) (26 years ago, 19-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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