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i keep on seeing 666 shares on ask for drys
is this a good sign
sure thing, read this:
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/08/21/whose_medical_decisions_part_iv
then ask why the democratic congress never allowed catastrophic health insurance, medicare coverage and fed coverage for all and a bunch of other proposals that were indeed about health care
newly me too. no replacing his wit and vigor and eyeballs
\and i still dont understand how he used obv lows
ot, would you expect less
fed there has been plenty of rsi divergence around
what happened to this one
The “Medicare for All Act” (S. 1218/H.R. 2034) was introduced by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Rep. John Dingell (D-MI). This bill would make Medicare coverage available to persons under age 65 and also give all Americans the option of enrolling in private health plans with benefits comparable to FEHBP health plan benefits.
i beleive that a democrat will throw bricks through their own windows to blame republican opposition to health care bills, and yes the tooth fairy must have been involved in destroying these bills
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i do enjoy your replies, they engender confidence in knowledgeable discourse and seeking to learn
but from now on you must not vote democratic, so i expect you to be a little more thoughtful from now on
ok, that is a public promise.
during the democratically controlled 2006 congress, all republican bills, even those to stop the housing crisis were either blocked or altered in such a way to give money to community activist groups, like acorn, for example Bush's project hope which supplied 300 billion in refinacing to people with underwater mortgages and 2-4 billion to acorn like groups. the press didnt advertise it, and congress your congress refused to fund it until the housing crisis destroyed walls treet in 2008. it was funded in late november october.
back to health.
there was a strong push to cover the uninsured in 2007 2008. many bills were promoted, but the only thing that made it through was the Schip bill, which when passed stole money from the medicare advantage program's reimbursement rates, denying health care to the elderly. good move democrats!
you can find a description of many of the other bills proposed and here is the specific bill I talked about introduced by republicans
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-1198
http://covertheuninsured.org/legislative_bill/s-1198-smith
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/46843.php
then there is hr 2990
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/106/bills/h_r_2990/
Alex do you have any reason at all to understand why medical insurance is only deductible if it is above 7.5 percent of AGI?
why wont the democrats at least pass a bill to allow health insurance to be deductible? wouldnt that help people at no administrative cost to the govt?
notice the 4 member all democrat group controlling the bill never let it get to the floor
alex i am sorry, will you vote against democrats if i give you the info?
yes the hand carry is very low cost and effective. i urge everybody to get copies of their films
so when politicians talk about electronic records. everbody has say ten xrays. that is about 100 mb maybe full resolution
times 100 million people or 10 million times 10 times 100 megabytes or a gigabytes or 10,000 terrabytes
the whole earth is like 40 terrabytes of info a day of data exchange, i was surprised how low and commented on it a few weeks ago
is my arithmetic wrong?
and this is just xrays, cat and mri 100 times worse
and lab tests,and pateint vist records. just how big are medicares computers?
consider that an average mri 1.5 t 40 cuts is between 100 megs and 1 gig. and youa re producing 40 a shift per machine
how are you going to upload this stuff 80 gigs a shift from every mri house in the usa?
and that is with data reduction compression. Gulf B are these figures the same as yours?
i am speaking about medical records, not test results and x rays and mri's which are already electronic and can be easily catalogued. (supposedly) But even doing this is hard for someproviders. I have been in many a radiology office where the disk copying equipt doenst work, where its hard to transmit and receive the digitized scans etc.
the office records written in pen, the pre 2003 lab tests, the scans recorded on magenetic tape and archived and the tape is dead are all an impossibility.
even if you could implement a server, who is going to have the bandwidth to transmit this stuff and store it in such a way that it can only be obtained by an md with a confidentiality authorization? I think it might take years of bandwidth to just upload all the xrays from a single readiology office and who is going to do it? who is going to do the data QC checks? how do you know that xray is yours?
and then how aer they going to be accessesed? if financial info like mastercard cant be kept safe, how is this going to be safegurded and encrypted and access audited.
It is going to take trillions of dollars to do this. And it all could be saved simply by giving the patient the scan results and the images when they go home.
right now, most practicing docs dont even look at the xrays they just read the report
try google catastrosphic health insurance coverage vote 2007 in google, but i guess that would be too hard.
if i tell you about it, will you promise to vote against any democratic politician for the next 12 years?
i know about thirty practioners. none have the ability to go electronic for their records. tests and xrays and scans are no problem. you want your hiv positive status on ibm's computers?
most hospital billing records are, but the medical writing portions by the doctors are not. in other words the aqctual historical transcript of what the heck happened to you in the hospital and why is not part of the electronic record in most places unless it is transcribed and then it is not error checked
did you know the democratic congress of 2007 voted down the catastrophic health insurance bill which would provided every american with health insurance
you mean bernie the great obama contributor and supporter?
syl, you really think diversity should be stopped in the middle east by the first black president? you think segregation by religion should happen in israel and no jews should be allowed to live in the west bank which was originally the home to most israelis before the 48 war?
so we have the first post racial president enforcing racial and religious segregation laws.
absolutely amazing.
technically we are due for a short pull back on the dailies.
thinking like a criminal , gs has to get the market higher so nobody can have capital loss carry forwards and preferably give everyone capital gains so the gov gets tax revenues
more criminal thinking is gs will short the market, drive it down and then boost it to higher highs
i dont know how to think like a criminal
sure all that has to be done is send in erroneous data. then your life death score will be changed, like a downgraded credit score. and you will not be able to go to the doctor anymore
look what they did to joe the plumbers files
unintended conseguences of green jobs
Palm oil is the new green gold after timber,” says Mark Bujang, executive director of the Borneo Resources Institute in Miri, a city of about 230,000 people in Sarawak. “It has become the most destructive force after three decades of unsustainable logging.”
sure thing jack, no new taxes
sox, do the accounting or stop posting talking points. show us 5 peer reviewed studies of medical cost duplication which also have validated cross sectional sampling
now it turns out, buried in the health bill is a provision that requires the irs to make you pay penalties for any infraction, whether you knew you had to pay the tax or not.
given that the 1040 instructions are now 180 pages long, how can you ever figure it out right? what is right anyway? does anyone know
25.40 25.44 certainlt is qid resistance. the boys at GS keep on hitting the sell button at 25.43
singapore GDP up 20 percent last qtr. germany out of recession. US lags
yes, syl, its meaningless stuff. you have to understand i know exactly how this is done. i explained it to you. do you want to know more on how to develop proper statistical datasets? I can point you to that direction. the usa is a very heterogeneous population which can only be compared to an exactly the same heterogenous population, or population subsets which are equivalent can be compared
but the first thing you need to know is that you can only compare equivalent, equal populations.
let me give you an example.
a scientist does a comparison between animals living in the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere. he wants to know how much air they breathe when underwater.
so he takes some fish in the northern hemisphere and puts them in a bowl of water and records biological oxygen demand or BOD
and he takes some puppies in the southern hemisphere,and being a good scientist he puts them in a bowl of water and records BOD. there is no BOD becasue all the puppies die.
the New york times then publishes an article that says northern hemisphere animals use more oxygen than southern hemisphere animals, proving that the northern hemisphere is the cause of increased energy usage
you just cant compare apples to bannanas or fish to puppies
good read on the public single payer system and how it works in oregon
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-nightmare-of-rationing-in-oregon/
syl your a smart guy. the situation is very complex and will not be fixed by emotion or legislative fiat. and that is the problem. it will take a lot of work and a lot of people are going to have to come to grips with the actual causes of the health care crisis. just solely blaming illegal aliens, greedy doctors, greedy insurance companies, heartless republicans and greedy drug and medical equipment companies or the bush administration is not going to fix things.
one of the root causes of the problem may be as simple as the fact that our population is sick.
you cant conpare health care costs unless you know the relative disease incidences of heart disease, diabetes, lund and liver disease, hepatititis and even STD's and aids and sickle cell anemia between two compared populations, so all those foolish statistics are indeed foolish.
putting pork in a bill to the tune of 50 to 100 billion dollars, one forth of the cost of the iraq war, isnt going to help either.
the american people are tired of being told one thing and discovering its actually something else
or maybe its the sunshine
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/006473.html
macao has the highest life expectancy. is that because the medical system in macao is the best? or is it because everyone smokes there?
syl, if you check our posts, you will find it.
everytime the homeland security guy said well they are just hard working people looking to work everybody cringed.
and the democrats said the minutemen were racists
the democrats always used racism. then they say undocumented aliens instead of illegal migrants. that is your party
and we still dont know how much a problem it really is
and you will still have to syl , unless your fill out a disclaimer that absolutly nothing has changed since the last record.
and if nothing has changed, why are you visiting the doc?.
I know electronic stuff sounds nice in principle, but in practice I suggest you get a copy of all your tests and your medical visits and keep a record to show the next doc.
it will make life so much easier for everyone
i know practicing physicians who are currently reduced to abject fear because of this. they simply have no way of reducing 20 patient years of 2000 patients and their tests
to electronic formats of unknown nature.
it a total cost shift. maybe they can bill all their patients or just give them the medical records and say, ok make them electronic.
they also have no methods of providing electronic records for future visits. just recording diagnosis and test results doesnt cut it, its the actual patient visit records which count
they dont have software, validated accounting, computers or people. you want to increase the cost of health care immediately, get electronic records. immediately the costs of buying people software and time will get tacked onto your bill
was there a big run up afterhours?
so sounds wonderful. I get a copy of my medical records from every visit and i take them with me to another doctor. they are your medical records.
no govt.
no burden on practioner.
do you really think a practitioner who is so busy you have to wait an hour to see has the time or money to actually magically transform 20 years of paper records into some kind of govt certified electronic record?
who is going to pay for it? how will you be able to know if mistakes happen?
this medical coding usually costs 50 to 100 dollars an hour and you need to set up statistical checks for accuracy.
who is going to sue when some piece gets left out?
how is this going to happen?
who is going to pay for it: do you want to get the bill or is it just magically someone elses money
and you will continue to have to fill out all the new patient intake forms over and over again. things change
of course they can , but only if they dont get attacked by a lawyer for a presumed mistake.
there have been many mistakes: one hospital doesnt accept a patient and they get put in an ambulance to another hospital and have a fatal mi on the way
yes if its a cold, go to a clinic. but do you have to prove its only a cold: get a chest xray, wbc, oxygen saturation etc etc
and a lot of times you just have worried moms. mom puts kid in daycore. comes home from work. kids temp is 100. at 11 pm its 101 . at 1 am its 102. mom gets scared. goes to ER. cant go to clinic.
the problem is that there are very real reasons why you cant just legislate health
welll they are trying to eliminate the mdicare advantage private medicare i9nsurance. and they are also eliminating any coinsurance for the public plan.
these are disasterous and fascist policies, because they force all people who dont work for the government to accept or else whatever the govt gives them.
as to paying all medicare costs, most physicians, especially surgical, cannot pay 100000 in malpractice, 150000 in billing specialist salaries and then get reimbursed 700 dollars for a foot amputatiion. so unless medicare reimbursement goes up, there will be not doctors accepting medicare at all.
as for hospital costs, they are throught the roof and i dont know what can be done