Moonbeam, I can't tell if that's your usual sarcasm or real sentiment coming through. Did you read any part of my post? The majority of my paying patients have only Medicare and so my fees are set by the government. I can bill $10K for one hospital day but Medicare still only pays me $80 for a...
I wasn't going to respond to this thread until I read one of the stupidest and most insulting comments I read in the last 3 months (thanks JS80). Please refer to my post here as SD for more info.
No offense - but you don't really have a true feel for how bad it is to feel the pinch of...
This is true. My cousins have come over from India (4 of them) and all of them are working for tech in Texas. They do mundane tech jobs that are stable - it pays the bills and is more likely to not get you fired. If my dad worked as hard as he did at a successful game company like EA he...
I saw you ignored my post in the other thread - so I'll bring it up here. Medical procedures are the single biggest costs in healthcare. Within the procedure there are labor costs, insurance costs (ie liability), overhead, and materials. Since the majority of procedures done occur within the...
Basically I'm saying you have a fixed amount of money the CMS (Medicare) is allocated each year. We all know the Medicare fund is somewhat raided by the house/Senate, but more or less the system is paying currently for the future retirees. Unfortunately the idiots who created this program...
I'll post these replies here since the other thread "died" :P
I'm not going to request your CV showing me your experience in surveying health systems.
The number commonly touted around in the medical community is that 95% of all health care dollars are spent at the end of life. If you...
You do know there is more than one medical lobby - although per media the second is dwarfed by the first. I'm referring to DOs and the AOA. I myself am a DO (mainly because I was unwilling to leave SoCal and not because of any philosophy). The number of DO schools more than doubled in the...
I'm not going to request your CV showing me your experience in surveying health systems.
The number commonly touted around in the medical community is that 95% of all health care dollars are spent at the end of life. If you want to simply knock down the % utilization of GDP (reflected in...
What is there to understand? - I have no way of making this point to you. If it hasn't come across yet, nothing anybody says will get that point across.
It is true there is no all-knowing person in health care. In fact I'm often disappointed with every physician who enters Public Service...
I actually forced myself to watch the video on KCET last week (before this posting). The bias in the interview was obvious (almost like leading a juror) but the points the guest wanted to make were clear and not coerced. What wasn't discussed was who would pay for UHC - but that's another...
Well I wrote a rambling response at 2AM so maybe I didn't say everything i wanted to say (err type - I should be using Dragon lol). I agree with you that were are already paying for UHC. That's why I pay 260/month for my Kaiser coverage (I'm 33) and my wife pays 290/month for Bx PPO (38). The...
1) Wait time in the US are not atrocious. They're actually probably the best in the world when counting the population at large and based on statistical need/severity. If you're going to the ER for a bad sore throat and a 103 fever yes you may wait up to 8 hours in a moderately impacted...
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It is far from the best state (and I've lived in CA my whole life but been everywhere on Earth).
Forget Republicans and Democrats. The name tag only goes on only for which dodgeball team is going to pick you based on immigration and taxes. Ask any young Republican if they...
I'm a physician and my wife is an orthodontist. I'm a CA native and product of the public school system and she's imported from WA (well Taiwan before that). The amount we collectively paid in taxes last year is probably greater than the reported incomes of 80% of our patients (we're still...
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