If somebody could just clean up the abuse and overbilling in the medical field, that would help a lot.

When our youngest daughter was a teenager, she had to have her tonsils out. It was a day surgery, and we sat with her in the hospital all day.

They let her go home in the late afternoon, and in gathering up her stuff one of the nurses handed me a plastic bag. It contained a new plastic toothbrush, a little tiny tube of toothpaste, a little sample bottle of Scope mouthwash, and a little sample bottle of Tylenol - maybe $4 worth of stuff at WalMart, if they sold containers that small.

The nurse said "She can take this home with her", and like a dummy I said, "Uh, OK" and took it. When we got the bill, the hospital charged $68.50 extra for that bag!

Another daughter is a surgical tech. She says there's a sealed plastic kit in every emergency room that contains tools and dressings for some particular kind of medical situation, I forgot what. The kit is seldom used, and they go six months or so without opening one. Thing is - EVERY emergency room patient is charged for the use of one of those kits - $150 bucks extra, because it's available.

And like I mentioned before, that ambulance company recently DOUBLED the charge for my Mom's ambulance ride as soon as they found out it was covered by the government and insurance.

There's so much abuse going on - it needs cleaning up.