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   cjkinsey said, 5 months ago

   how about 30% for the shareholders?

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   tpenna said, 5 months ago

   Oh, and then when you go to see a specialist and I can’t be reached to share the results of these tests, you’ll have to take all of them again.

   It’s happened, folks!

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   stealth6948 said, 5 months ago

   To many Hospitals want to Pad the bill, I know they got to break even but MANNNN there is a limit. This country has the best Health system in the world, Problem is NO ONE CAN AFFORD IT.

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   motivemagus said, 5 months ago

   We DON’T have the best healthcare system in the world, at least in terms of results – we have the potential, but not the access or the efficiency. What this cartoon does not make plain is that it isn’t dithering doctors prescribing unnecessary procedures that are the problem – it’s the insurance companies requiring doctors to CYA as much as possible, coupled with a litigious society, extremely high malpractice insurance rates, insufficient numbers of general practitioners (because specialists get paid better both in general and by insurance companies, and can therefore pay off sky-high med school loans faster) who can’t spend time with the patients to really learn their issues – and that, too, is specified by insurance companies. Sense a pattern here?
   
   Conservatives love to claim that all government is inefficient. But even an inefficient universal government-run healthcare system – which is NOT NOT NOT what Obama is proposing! – would be VASTLY more efficient than the current approach of a tangle of insurance companies meddling with the process of doctors working with patients.
   We’re #1 in costs and #27 in performance. You can’t tell me this is a good use of the free market!

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   DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

   stealth6948 said,

   This country has the best Health system in the world, Problem is NO ONE CAN AFFORD IT.

   DrCanuck replies: stealth, that’s a brilliant ironic comment. May I have your permission to plagiarize it?

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   jkshaw said, 5 months ago

   A point not addressed is that the cheapest cure for many, many ills, like skeletal and gastrointestinal problems, is a sensible diet and the loss of vast amounts of weight. It comes hard to the patient, though, in a land of milk and honey.

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   believecommonsense said, 5 months ago

   for those of you who have seen the TV ad campaign sponsored by “Conservatives for Patient Rights” , ads were produced by same company that manufactured the “swift boat veterans” campaign, now debunked for the falsehood it always was
   AND
   ad campaign is being financed by the former CEO of Columbia/HCA who was fired after an FBI investigation into the company’s practices led to 14 felony convictions of Medicare and Medicaid fraud and was fined $1.7 BILLION in fines for Medicare fraud.

   Great spokesman for patient’s rights and fiscal responsibility, eh?

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   slavetofashion69 said, 5 months ago

   motivemagus, you’re absolutely right. Private insurance companies have created a health care system that profits insanely from people’s illnesses.

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   dtroutma said, 5 months ago

   Commonsense– If “CPR” required CPR, I’d have to defer giving it to them until they provided me their private insurance card, a financial report of their income and indebtedness, and guaranteed me a performance bonus if I succeeded! They are indeed the “Swifties” who should have been torpedoed.

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    believecommonsense said, 5 months ago

    ^ dtroutma, and you would only provide the CPR for “CPR-NOT” after you had managed to lose the request for it (to be provided in triplicate on a hard to find form) twice, denied it once after you received it, and agreed to it only when you were quite certain the patient was too far gone to be saved!

    I bet Faux News will never report on the man behind this ad campaign and his company’s history of felony convictions for Medicare fraud.