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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 01:09 PM
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Healthcare portion of the House stimulus bill (pie graph)
Edited on Sun Feb-01-09 01:10 PM by underpants
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FreakinDJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 01:27 PM
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1. FUCK spending money on HealthCare - Mandate Cuts in Cost
Health care cost are being manipulated just as we have seen with Crude Oil and Energy Cost. They are the common draining factor on the US economy that will keep us in a State of Economic Recession until they are addressed by tough legislation that takes the gross profits and administration cost out of Health Care
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customerserviceguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 02:01 PM
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2. Usually,
that just means cutting payments to doctors, who tend to try to avoid having Medicare or Medicaid patents (at least too big a proportion of them), or cutting payments to hospitals, which then load the costs onto everybody else's bill.
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FreakinDJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 03:17 PM
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3. Try taxing all profit above 2% at a rate of 35%
and see just how they pass that on
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customerserviceguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 03:34 PM
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4. Why don't we try reforming the medical malpractice system
including insurance? What if there were a government insurance program exclusively for people whose bills are paid for by Medicare and Medicaid, and the doctors and hospitals wouldn't have to kick in premiums? What if a doctor took all Medicaid and Medicare patients, that physician wouldn't have to shell out for expensive insurance?

And what if that government insurance company had as a priority making quick claims settlements to people truly injured by medical malpractice? With the results open to all to see?

Or do you think that continuing to squeeze health care providers between the vice jaws of lowered reimbursement and higher malpractice insurance is going to solve anything?
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FreakinDJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 03:38 PM
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5. 16% admin cost plus 20 -30% profit margin = 40% Rape
It is ludicris to think this is any thing less then market manipulation just as we had with Crude Oil prices. And the Cork-Soakers deny Life Saving procedures to Children to finance their Greed

FUCK THEM ALL

Legislate the Profits to 2% NOW
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