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Re: Credit reports anybody?
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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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 (...) (28 years ago, 19-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | Re: Credit reports anybody?
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| (...) 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 (...) (28 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 (...) (28 years ago, 19-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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