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Could You Bill Your Doctor for Making You Wait?

Cherie Kerr sat in the doctor's office for four hours as she waited for the nurse to call her name. As a freelance writer in 1969, Kerr missed four hours of her hourly wage that day. Upon receiving her hospital bill, Kerr refused to pay it. The move set off a lifetime of standing her ground, refusing to pay, and sometimes billing her doctors, when they kept her waiting too long. "I know if I sit there, I'm going to get really mad, and then I'm not polite," said Kerr, 67, of Santa Ana, Calif....Full Story
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