-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <adea223d151b9c9a967851b13a3db691@squirrel>, on 12/23/97 at 08:01 AM, Secret Squirrel <anon@squirrel.owl.de> said:

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Well I don't know about you Tim but my Doctors only know me as Mr. Cash. :)

How'd you pull that one off? All kinds of personal information, including your name, is included in medical records which the doctors have to keep up to date and reference. When you go in you'd have to give them your name.

Now on the other hand I suppose you could go in, say you don't have insurance, give a fake name, and pay in cash always. It would still be trivial to ambush you at a scheduled doctor appointment. And I think Klintonkov has done a good job of discouraging privately funded medical care.

I make it a strict policy of paying cash for everything when possessable. Outside of my pediatrition from my childhood no doctor has records on me (at least none with my name attached to them). I don't deal with fake names or any other attempts to deceive my doctors. I just simply tell the that I am paying cash and I wish to keep all my records, end of discussion. I have yet to have a doctor or dentists protest over this (BTW I don't deal with the hired help in the doctors office but deal directly with the person in charge). With the tax rates these professions pay cash paying customers get red carpet treatment. Now I have never had to be hospitalized. This is rather tricky but if it is a non-emergency admission I would talk with directory of the hospital. I think that you will find that displaying several thousand $$$ in cash will go a long way in preserving one's anonymity. :) The same thing back when I was renting. I always payed in cash and did not have a real name associated with my address. When one produces 6mo rent up front in cash very few questions are asked. Getting utilities turned on under an alais is a trivial matter. Mail and packages can be drop shipped to a local (or not so local) FedEx or UPS office. Another thing is I do not have any ID with the state that I reside in. Currently I am living in one state, my DL is in another state, and my License plate is in a 3rd. There is also a trick for driving a car without ever having it registered but I woun't go into that here. :) I actually drove a small Nissan stationwagon for 8mo. in KCMO without any tags on it at all. BTW *never* drive on stolen tags. You can always BS your way out of expired tags, tags off another car (that you own), or even no tags at all but you just can't BS your way out of stolen tags. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNJ98a49Co1n+aLhhAQK6agQAl4+HeDYgfSgBIgb5xE8WhJRZe+2x+38+ opMq6sD+w2yLM/pHDrH/feADPz8B5NulkIruHTN3KvcbBRJwD+EAlOOR23u5PRLz PRTtXXLpCTG64CH0bvVQG0lLiHaxwuCeSlE1nbXL4dj2eul9A3/5Q7Uoby9vTY7k UpfGpEz/GSI= =ZeQy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----