My next patient seems nice enough and on the surface she looks like a trustworthy mare but don't let her looks or demeanor in public deceive you. She seems to have an entitlement complex and I will tell you why.
When she came in she was whining about her upper jaw hurting. When she did this I couldn't help but wonder if maybe this wasn't something beyond a dental problem so I took X-rays of her jaw. Luckily for me it was related to an infected tooth, more revenue for me, yay! The bad news, she came in simply expecting me to fix it for free because she is the mayor. Now like always this pissed me off because you know how I feel about patients who try to get out of paying their bills!
I smacked her a few times and told her to rush home and either bring me some cash or get her insurance card. She rushes home and a few minutes later she brings me her insurance card. I had never seen this one before, hell I had never even heard of The Equestrian Municipality Insurance Company.
While I was not completely sure of it, part of me thought it might be tied to TiaCare so I smacked her a few more times, knocking a couple teeth out. She's well off enough that I can get monetary compensation out of her if I wish. Given that she had to pay for me for getting those teeth put back in, taking care of the infected tooth, the pain killers and the antibiotic I gave her, her final bill totaled 1,000 bits.
Now came the best part, taking her up front to collect my payment. I ran her card through and holy shit, it covered 95% of her bill! Even LunaCare doesn't pay 95% BUT there was one little problem for her, she still owed me fifty bits. Like I said she didn't have any bits on her and trust me, I would never make her compensate me like I do some of my other patients. What I did was much more satisfying.
I turned her over to collections, reported negative reports to every single consumer credit reporting agency in Equestria and wrote a letter to the editor of The Ponyville Express and The Foal Free Press letting them know of the mayor's debt and her refusal to pay me. Luckily both printed it and now the town views her as a bum who tries to get away from her bills. What is even funnier is that it is an election year and ever since the town learned of her trying to get out of paying bills, her polling numbers have plunged. Chances are she will get crushed in the election this fall, courtesy of yours truly.
Let this be a warning to anypony running for office and tries to get out of paying your complete balance, I can and will not only sink any campaign you have going on, I will destroy your political career. Long story short, pay me what you owe me and everything will be fine.
And as far as anypony else who tries to get out of paying up, I'll destroy your credit rating too. One time I actually ruined the chances of a pony being able to buy a house by sinking that non-paying bum's credit rating. The bank figured that if he can't even afford to pay his balance to me off, then he certainly wouldn't be able to afford a mortgage payment! Damn it feels good when I ruin the lives of non-paying bums!