Originally Posted By: TigerJimmy
Go to an optometrist: if you have insurance, an exam is $250 (someone else is paying), if you don't it's $80 (what the market will bear).

Is that in fact the case? I only go by what I read in the news, of course, but I had gained the impression it was more like "If you have insurance, price is $80 (insurer has collective bargaining power), if you don't, it's $250 (individual pays rack rate)"?

Peter