Healthcare Cost Ponderer Gifts

'It didn't make sense until I conferred with your financial planner.'

"How the hell should I know what I'm looking at? You're lousy insurance doesn't provide HD X-rays."

Less is more.

See the house whose property taxes were raised

'And you say your face after you looked at the bill I sent you for your last visit.'

'He's crazy. He wants $40,000 for that one dollar bill!'

'I recommend a second opinion so the HMO won't second guess me.'

'You have to admire the way Hartley overcame his honesty and integrity to get to the top.'

"Dogs can detect cancer, and mice can detect tuberculosis."

Economists generally agree that consumers don't trust products that cost too little. If an item is too inexpensive, it seems cheap. A higher cost connotes quality. Price hike! Beware the rabid capitalist bearing economic theory.

'Blimey, you must have charged for the trolley as well!'

"What kind of take-out are you in the mood for: overpriced or overrated?"

'There's only one side effect from this medication. It starts when you don't pay my bill!'

"I don't think I could fit another slice in...oh, hold on."

A Menu Board Lists The True Costs Of Lunch

'I'm just a struggling actor. Your insurance policy doesn't cover a real doctor.'

Private prescription drugs

'Hmmmmm. I wonder if there were any roaming charges to call the moon.'

No man is an island ??" it just looks that way.

'There seems to be a mercenary element creeping into his work.'

"I can't decide which is more outrageous, the hat or the price?"

Perhaps we should sell ours?

I'll need the tweezers. It looks like Mr. Fosgitt here is paying through the nose for his health insurance.

"I'm not a miracle worker. I can't do the surgery for less than four thousand."

Why College Costs So Much 101.

'ONe hundred million neutrinos are passing through our bodies every second, and we're worried about the price of coffee.'

"I gave up smoking to annoy my wife by living longer."

"I got a second opinion on the operation—my accountant advises against it."

'Fill it faster,the price has gone up twice since you started.'

"Will I be able to carry on not doing any exercise?"

'How much does this book about inflation cost?'...

'I'm going to prescribe something that works like aspirin but costs much, much more.'

'How much do you think we'd be worth if we lost all our money?'

Dairyman with frozen pump

Martin Health M.D. - practice limited to six figure diseases.