My visit to the gynecologist

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First off, I'm male. I have no health insurance and needed a physical and some lab tests for a university class. My regular clinic wanted $800. Bull crap. I started calling around. I found a clinic that would do the whole thing for A LOT less. So, I made an appointment.

I got to the "family health clinic" and was the only one in the waiting room. As a registered nurse, I quickly recognized the telltail signs of a women's clinic...the birth control ads on the wall were the big giveaway. I got a physical and five lab tests done and got a followup appointment for my $60. My guess is it was a subsidized clinic, but so what? It pays to shop around for health care. If everyone in the USA did that, it would go a long way in reducing health care costs.

I'll keep this in mind for the future I think.

they had you pee on a little blue strip?

A friend of mine (male) once peed on a test strip. The test result showed he was pregnant.
Presence of male hormones that appear with a successful sperm/egg fertilization, or some such thing, I suspect.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Um, Kraichgauer, how long ago did your friend get his 'good news'?

Reason I ask is that hCG (the substance tested for in both doctors' and commercial pregnancy test kits), if it's found to be elevated in males, can be a sign of testicular cancer. I assume the clinic would have checked this out at the time, but it might be worth bearing in mind...

Actually, he was working at Safeway at the time, and during a slow night, he and some other guys broke out a few pregnancy test strips, went out back, and peed on them. Each of them were diagnosed as pregnant. Being that was almost ten years ago by now, I doubt that my friend need fear any cancer of the balls, as he hasn't reported any complaints to me.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Fair enough. Maybe just a hormonal glitch. Everyone produces some of the hormones of the opposite sex, but producing them over certain small amounts can ring alarm bells...

Except you lost sight of the fact that someone SUBSIDIZED that clinic...likely taxpayers via a government program. I'm sure whatever money that clinic gets takes about 3-4 times the revenue extracted via taxation.

I don't mind taxes paying for health care for poor people-
you're right that HIM paying less didn't "reduce health care costs" so much as a penny-
it simply changed who paid them.