All it tells us is exactly what you quoted: that Congressmen were willing to vote yes on a bill when it was amended to not harm their constituents as much.
I happen to think that's silly, given the topic, but many seem to think that wrangling pork out of the mix for one's home state is what they're for.
My experience is that paying out of pocket is way more expensive in some cases because a practitioner (say, a physical therapist) is going to try to inflate your invoice as much as he can under the assumption that insurance is just going to eat it all.
I could see how the OP's assertion might be true in the case of smaller practices though, where there might be significant time involved in dealing with the insurance company.
Dealing with medicaid (as in, billing them for services rendered to someone covered by it) is a goddamned pain in the ass. I've been involved with it on a small scale, and we were dialing into a BBS to submit billing reports right up until about 2003 or so. I know the people I was involved with only took Medicaid because in the area we were in it was that or cut most of your patients off.
I'd hope Walgreens has a better interface for reimbursement but between dealing with them and dropping reimbursement amounts i can't say it surprises me.
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Personally, i think TVs are more a problem than McDonalds. In other words, people would still be unhealthy without fast food, if they still sit and consume TV for a zillion hours a week, rather than being active.
You could trip and break your wrist on your next bathroom trip. You could be in a car accident and have any manner of things happen that cost tens of thousands of dollars. Drop a kitchen knife and either catch it by the blade or watch it embed itself in your foot. You're being obtuse by only looking at routine stuff.
To reject something like that, because you don't care or think it's pointless comes across a whole lot like arrogance, especially worded as he apparently did.
Why not go along with it? There would be zero harm in graciously accepting it and presenting the viewpoint more tactfully.
Out of curiosity, did you see that your fellow trainees had serious math issues? Out of the trainees (admittedly, few) my company has put forward the majority have come away from the class still having amazingly poor abilities at analyzing data.
Makes perfect sense to me, in the context of the general masses shying away from such a person in fear they might catch whatever he has that makes him sit there and do that instead of "working" --because if he's sitting next to the door of your shop they're shying away from the shop too!:)
To make it fair you have to look at man-hours of entertainment. Sure the radio may be cheaper in absolute terms, but how many people listen to it vs watch that guy's show?
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All it tells us is exactly what you quoted: that Congressmen were willing to vote yes on a bill when it was amended to not harm their constituents as much.
I happen to think that's silly, given the topic, but many seem to think that wrangling pork out of the mix for one's home state is what they're for.
Most people are opposed because 1) they're selfish and 2) they have no compassion, because they have never had to deal with devastating medical debt.
My experience is that paying out of pocket is way more expensive in some cases because a practitioner (say, a physical therapist) is going to try to inflate your invoice as much as he can under the assumption that insurance is just going to eat it all.
I could see how the OP's assertion might be true in the case of smaller practices though, where there might be significant time involved in dealing with the insurance company.
Dealing with medicaid (as in, billing them for services rendered to someone covered by it) is a goddamned pain in the ass. I've been involved with it on a small scale, and we were dialing into a BBS to submit billing reports right up until about 2003 or so. I know the people I was involved with only took Medicaid because in the area we were in it was that or cut most of your patients off.
I'd hope Walgreens has a better interface for reimbursement but between dealing with them and dropping reimbursement amounts i can't say it surprises me.
Personally, i think TVs are more a problem than McDonalds. In other words, people would still be unhealthy without fast food, if they still sit and consume TV for a zillion hours a week, rather than being active.
That hate relies on the image of the "indolent layabout"
Which is largely a myth but good luck convincing people of it.
You could trip and break your wrist on your next bathroom trip. You could be in a car accident and have any manner of things happen that cost tens of thousands of dollars. Drop a kitchen knife and either catch it by the blade or watch it embed itself in your foot. You're being obtuse by only looking at routine stuff.
To reject something like that, because you don't care or think it's pointless comes across a whole lot like arrogance, especially worded as he apparently did.
Why not go along with it? There would be zero harm in graciously accepting it and presenting the viewpoint more tactfully.
Marketing. Promotion. Paying off radio stations to play the song seven or eight times a day.
+5 informative for the link to secondspin, thanks.
Many of us place a nonzero value on being a mature adult and either paying for entertainment we consume or abstaining altogether.
"well, linux is FREE hurf durf"
Sorry, I get what you're saying and I agree with it, I think my comment was mostly directed towards the "no other option" phrase.
On the other hand, I also realize that in MANY cities there IS no bus.
the mentality comes from too many drama-documentaries on TV
Probably would have gotten him fired if caught, but fuck it
If the data in question was really classified, I think the word you're after is "arrested"
Sounds like she ought to be taking the bus, rather than taking on a major hunk of new debt.
Out of curiosity, did you see that your fellow trainees had serious math issues? Out of the trainees (admittedly, few) my company has put forward the majority have come away from the class still having amazingly poor abilities at analyzing data.
I will be the first one to admit I haven't heard enough classical music, to be fair.
Any idea if such a collection is available electronically? My work-blinkered internet isn't being much help so far.
Yep, i'm gonna be the one to get into a music argument on slashdot.
Mozart is way overrated. Good? Yes. Chopin, amazing by comparison. Not really contemporaries, so maybe the comparison isn't apt though.
Makes perfect sense to me, in the context of the general masses shying away from such a person in fear they might catch whatever he has that makes him sit there and do that instead of "working" --because if he's sitting next to the door of your shop they're shying away from the shop too! :)
It could also be the troublemakers tend to be narrow minded and have no taste
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On that honda I mentioned I could swear there was a button on the shifter, but it still allowed free travel between N-D-Low
It has been a while though, so I may be misremembering.
* Free sex (some have even institutionalized this theft as "marriage")
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To make it fair you have to look at man-hours of entertainment. Sure the radio may be cheaper in absolute terms, but how many people listen to it vs watch that guy's show?