I host and produce the Medicare for All Explained podcast in collaboration with Physicians for a National Health Program. Yes, doctors are experience burnout, but often that burnout is caused by having to deal with insurance companies. Doctors have to fight insurance companies to get them to approve necessary treatments, and often the treatments are covered. Doctors have to figure out what drugs are on their patients' insurance plans. These activities take time away from patients. Doctors don't want to spend time fighting insurance companies. They want to help and treat their patients, which is why a majority of doctors favor a single-payer Medicare for All system.
Second, doctors salaries are a minor problem when it comes to health care costs. Administration costs caused by our fragmented multi-payer health care system is why our health care costs are so high. Doctors spend on average $100,000 on billing and insurance related costs (BIR). If we got rid of insurance companies, doctor's salaries would be more in line with other countries, and they still might have more disposable income. Hospitals have a similar problem. In the U.S. we average about one billing clerk per hospital bed. In Canada a hospital system with just over 1,270 beds has only seven billing clerks. We have more that 931,000 hospital beds in the U.S.
The doctors' tax is not the problem. It is the tax from keeping our fragmented multi-payer health care system with insurance companies. A single-payer system would resolve these problems.
One of my brothers want to CVS, bought three items, and ended up with a receipt that was almost 6 feet in length. Perhaps all we need to do is limit the length of CVS receipts.
Health insurance companies are masters of this. They are great at denying claims. (It is part of our deny-care health care system, but that is too long to discuss here.) Sometimes you get different answers about the same policy, or you are told that something is not covered when it is.
Unfortunately, when health insurance companies engage in the behavior, it can cost hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars and cause financial ruin. Even worse, delays can cause additional suffering or even death.
I sympathize. I use to work in a office that played music. I dreaded the Monday after Thanksgiving. While the music was annoying the rest of the year, it was tolerable. I was ready to rip out the speakers in less than one day after the Christmas music started. There aren't that many Christmas songs, and they played over and over.
I wonder if the parents who want the right to avoid vaccinations also want the right to kill their children, kill other children, or to shoot a gun in a public place. In a sense that is what they are doing.
BTW, there are people whose immune systems are compromised and cannot get vaccines for medical reasons. They depend on herd immunity.
Hopefully, this craziness will end soon, and the government should and will require vaccines, except when their is a medical reason not to.
Meanwhile in the USA, I can't think of one thing we are doing to improved our infrastructure. At best, we are doing some maintenance, but even that effort is inadequate.
There is much that could be replied to in this thread.
Let me start with this. The U.S.has the most expensive health care system in the world by a wide margin, yet our outcomes are often at or near the bottom for developed countries.
This is one example of the inefficiency. U.S. hospitals average one billing clerk per bed. Toronto General Hospital in Canada has three billing clerks for for 417 beds.There are 894,574 hospital beds in the U.S. If we had a single-payer system like in Canada,the U.S. would need only about 6,435 billing clerks instead of 894,574.
The quote that, "The Europeans sacrifice the young and the old. The US sacrifices the poor," is only partially correct. The U.S. does sacrifice the poor--and not just in health care, but that is another issue. Europeans do not sacrifice the young or the old.
I host and produce the new "Medicare for All Explained" podcast in collaboration with Physicians for a National Health Program. If you would like a good explanation of why the U.S. needs Medicare for All, listen to the first episode, "Medicare for All, An Overview."
If you want a good description of the crap that doctors go through to deal with insurance companies, listen the the second episode, "The Five Es."
No, not while Republicans control either the House, Senate, or White House. If Democrats controlled the House and Senate, they might be able to pass a bill--if they got 60 votes in the Senate to override a filibuster--but it would still be hard to override a presidential veto by a Republican president.
While it is true that Cuba and European countries have a different definition of infant mortality than used in the U.S., it would not affect the statistics that much. If you adjust the stats by matching U.S. infant mortality definition to match the definition used by Europe and Cuba, the U.S. still has one of the highest infant mortality rates of any developed country. The argument that a different definition causes the problem in this country is a red herring.
These subsidies are totally unfair to other businesses and individuals. Until these tax subsides are outlawed, the federal government should tax them at 100 percent. Even better, tax them at 120 percent.
I would suggest another solution. Make all CEOs and top executives of an airline always fly coach on a competitor's airline. Also, make all federal elected officials and members of the presidential cabinet always fly coach. I bet that will solve the problem quickly.
This sounda like restraint of trade. If I can meet Amazon's requirements, and I can show that I am an honest dealer, I should be able to sell on Amazon.
I hope Sen. Wyden bill passes. However, I think the fines need to be larger. I would impose fines of at three times the revenue or profit from selling the data plus the $5 million fine. Otherwise, if a company makes $500 million from selling data, having to pay a $5 million fine is a business risk I might take. However, if the fine was $1.5 billion, I would be much more careful.
There is an old joke about software. "Do you know why God was able to create the world in seven days? He didn't have an installed user base."
For software, maintenance is usually harder than writing new code. I assume that is also true for most products. I also agree that we need to spend more money on maintenance, especially on infrastructure. The infrastructure in the U.S. is in a deplorable state.
I have another complaint about Google's user interface.
After finding "Smart Compose" in "Settings," I decided to check "Smart Reply." I used my browsers search function to find it. Why does Google (and other companies) put topics in a random order, instead of ordering topics alphabetically. The order may be logical to Google, but I have no idea what they are thinking, and it is a pain to find anything.
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The only concern is if the AI in the robots advances enough that it decides it wants to get high and smokes all the profits away.
I host and produce the Medicare for All Explained podcast in collaboration with Physicians for a National Health Program. Yes, doctors are experience burnout, but often that burnout is caused by having to deal with insurance companies. Doctors have to fight insurance companies to get them to approve necessary treatments, and often the treatments are covered. Doctors have to figure out what drugs are on their patients' insurance plans. These activities take time away from patients. Doctors don't want to spend time fighting insurance companies. They want to help and treat their patients, which is why a majority of doctors favor a single-payer Medicare for All system.
Second, doctors salaries are a minor problem when it comes to health care costs. Administration costs caused by our fragmented multi-payer health care system is why our health care costs are so high. Doctors spend on average $100,000 on billing and insurance related costs (BIR). If we got rid of insurance companies, doctor's salaries would be more in line with other countries, and they still might have more disposable income. Hospitals have a similar problem. In the U.S. we average about one billing clerk per hospital bed. In Canada a hospital system with just over 1,270 beds has only seven billing clerks. We have more that 931,000 hospital beds in the U.S.
The doctors' tax is not the problem. It is the tax from keeping our fragmented multi-payer health care system with insurance companies. A single-payer system would resolve these problems.
One of my brothers want to CVS, bought three items, and ended up with a receipt that was almost 6 feet in length. Perhaps all we need to do is limit the length of CVS receipts.
Health insurance companies are masters of this. They are great at denying claims. (It is part of our deny-care health care system, but that is too long to discuss here.) Sometimes you get different answers about the same policy, or you are told that something is not covered when it is.
Unfortunately, when health insurance companies engage in the behavior, it can cost hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars and cause financial ruin. Even worse, delays can cause additional suffering or even death.
I sympathize. I use to work in a office that played music. I dreaded the Monday after Thanksgiving. While the music was annoying the rest of the year, it was tolerable. I was ready to rip out the speakers in less than one day after the Christmas music started. There aren't that many Christmas songs, and they played over and over.
I can see the conversation.
"Hey Jackson, can you come out and play?"
"Not right now. I'm building a fusion reactor."
"Okay, maybe tomorrow."
She could argue that since she was not getting the service specified by the contract, she could cancel without penalty.
I hope it does not end up being a subprime cryptocurrency.
"How will people accidentally cursed with the wrong data profile get affordable insurance?"
Or the United States could adopt single-payer Medicare for All and that would not be an issue.
I wonder if the parents who want the right to avoid vaccinations also want the right to kill their children, kill other children, or to shoot a gun in a public place. In a sense that is what they are doing.
BTW, there are people whose immune systems are compromised and cannot get vaccines for medical reasons. They depend on herd immunity.
Hopefully, this craziness will end soon, and the government should and will require vaccines, except when their is a medical reason not to.
Perhaps more educated. Definitely not better educated.
Meanwhile in the USA, I can't think of one thing we are doing to improved our infrastructure. At best, we are doing some maintenance, but even that effort is inadequate.
I thiink ReCAPTCHA's success rate of 90 percent is better than mine on some CAPTCHAs.
There is much that could be replied to in this thread.
Let me start with this. The U.S.has the most expensive health care system in the world by a wide margin, yet our outcomes are often at or near the bottom for developed countries.
This is one example of the inefficiency. U.S. hospitals average one billing clerk per bed. Toronto General Hospital in Canada has three billing clerks for for 417 beds.There are 894,574 hospital beds in the U.S. If we had a single-payer system like in Canada,the U.S. would need only about 6,435 billing clerks instead of 894,574.
The quote that, "The Europeans sacrifice the young and the old. The US sacrifices the poor," is only partially correct. The U.S. does sacrifice the poor--and not just in health care, but that is another issue. Europeans do not sacrifice the young or the old.
I host and produce the new "Medicare for All Explained" podcast in collaboration with Physicians for a National Health Program. If you would like a good explanation of why the U.S. needs Medicare for All, listen to the first episode, "Medicare for All, An Overview."
If you want a good description of the crap that doctors go through to deal with insurance companies, listen the the second episode, "The Five Es."
I don't understand the complaints about this. IE is now secure on the computers that cannot boot.
No, not while Republicans control either the House, Senate, or White House. If Democrats controlled the House and Senate, they might be able to pass a bill--if they got 60 votes in the Senate to override a filibuster--but it would still be hard to override a presidential veto by a Republican president.
While it is true that Cuba and European countries have a different definition of infant mortality than used in the U.S., it would not affect the statistics that much. If you adjust the stats by matching U.S. infant mortality definition to match the definition used by Europe and Cuba, the U.S. still has one of the highest infant mortality rates of any developed country. The argument that a different definition causes the problem in this country is a red herring.
I hope our military can operate without GPS, and it is something they should practice with or without Russia's help.
These subsidies are totally unfair to other businesses and individuals. Until these tax subsides are outlawed, the federal government should tax them at 100 percent. Even better, tax them at 120 percent.
I would suggest another solution. Make all CEOs and top executives of an airline always fly coach on a competitor's airline. Also, make all federal elected officials and members of the presidential cabinet always fly coach. I bet that will solve the problem quickly.
This sounda like restraint of trade. If I can meet Amazon's requirements, and I can show that I am an honest dealer, I should be able to sell on Amazon.
I hope Sen. Wyden bill passes. However, I think the fines need to be larger. I would impose fines of at three times the revenue or profit from selling the data plus the $5 million fine. Otherwise, if a company makes $500 million from selling data, having to pay a $5 million fine is a business risk I might take. However, if the fine was $1.5 billion, I would be much more careful.
There is an old joke about software. "Do you know why God was able to create the world in seven days? He didn't have an installed user base."
For software, maintenance is usually harder than writing new code. I assume that is also true for most products. I also agree that we need to spend more money on maintenance, especially on infrastructure. The infrastructure in the U.S. is in a deplorable state.
How long do I have to wait before it is toilet trained?
I have another complaint about Google's user interface.
After finding "Smart Compose" in "Settings," I decided to check "Smart Reply." I used my browsers search function to find it. Why does Google (and other companies) put topics in a random order, instead of ordering topics alphabetically. The order may be logical to Google, but I have no idea what they are thinking, and it is a pain to find anything.