Attempting to collect the balance due at the time of service can serve for income purposes. It can guarantee that the doctors and the people involved with the procedure can get paid and the costumer will have the chance to access a proceudure. But actualy there are more disadvantages because the medical body can be sued and that they can not get paid if the patient does not feel that the procedure was good. It doesn't cover some expenses and it may not be comfortable neither for the patient nor for the doctors
It prevents you from gaining a lot of weight, so you stay healthy and don't get as many health problems.
A positive home pregnancy test can have a false positive
The answer is 2000 calories. My guess is that is because you need to burn so many but gain so many to get energy. This is a way to not gain weight.