I wasn't specific enough, this is one of the things that's plaguing the medical field causing high costs. Not the sole reason.
And even if it cost a dollar to reattach a finger, people will sure for much, much more. Lost work, permanent damages, death, mental anguish, etc. The cost of lawyers to fight these things in court.
If you can not get this under control, it doesn't matter who provides the medical care. It's going to be expensive.
And doctors don't have immunity from the consequences of their actions. I specifically added the "Lose their medical license" clause. This means no more suing doctors and hospitals in the hope that they'll throw money at you. Your victory means that you've taken a bad doctor out of the profession and that's all.
The next thing that causes the price of medical care to go up is the sheer amount of illegal immigrants that go in for free health care...
Email does not let you print out pictures that you frame and put up on the wall.
Email is useless for printing out grocery shopping lists, or recipes.
Email does not reach me in my car, where I need the google map.
The other day I printed out a story that needed editing so I could go over it with a highlighter at the local Starbucks. Yes, emailing it to a laptop would have worked great. Do you have 1000$ to give me so I can get a decent one?
Honestly, I'm amazed at how limited your life must be if you haven't encountered *any* of the above scenarios.
I also believe it's up to people to take their health care into their own hands.
And I'm a logical person.
I see the reason health care is so high is because of the lawyers. My solution is this: You cannot sue doctors or hospitals over the medical care they give you.
It would be wrong to keep them completely immune though. So there would be one condition. If you feel you've been wronged so badly, that they're a danger to their patients, you can move to have their ability to practice medicine removed.
There you go. Best of both worlds. You understand that doctors are human and make mistakes. And you also have an outlet for the dangerous ones.
His point is that the free market has to have a profit margin and that's why public will always outperform private.
The problem with that is that public has no incentive to do better, make the sales, grow, expand and do better. Where Private does because there is a direct risk-reward.
Systems that reward the people in it directly will always do better than those that reward the populace in general.
I don't blame Mexicans for coming over and getting jobs. It would be inhuman of them not to.
I blame the Feds for creating laws and not enforcing them. For expecting me to follow the laws, and then turning a blind eye to illegal immigrants. This is their job and they're not doing it!
Heh. It brings a whole new meaning to "Doing the jobs Americans won't do."
By having provisions about strengthening the border? There was a lot of enforcement in this bill, including this nation id thing....
A huh. You're completely ignoring point #2 I made. Which is pretty bad considering I only made two points. Let me refresh your memory...
The non-enforcement of current immigration laws on the books.
It doesn't matter what provisions you put into the bill if you don't enforce them. And the past 20 years has shown, they will not enforce them at a Federal level. This is what has gotten us to our current situation! How could you have missed this? Did you think that there wasn't federal laws that could effectively deal with illegal immigrants?
This is why those who want a border fence want a a solid "physical object" fence instead of a "virtual" fence. It's easy to get rid of a virtual fence by adjusting the funding. A physical fence remains there until torn down.
And all the vitriol about "get of jail free" is just ignoring the reality absoulte majority of thses people are just hard working , poor , desperate people.
The "get out of jail free card" is being written by Congressmen and Senators, for Congressmen and Senators. The vast majority of them are multimillionaires, if not all. But nice effort in twisting my words to make it look like I'm attacking Mexicans.
"We didn't let them" means status quo will stay for at least next 2 years - till citizens vote out republicans who seem to be unable to pass any single piece of legislation which is not pork for their corporate handlers.
And now you're officially a partisan hack. I'm a member of "Porkbusters", trying to remove pork and corruption from the political process. If you think this is just a Republican problem, you're mind-bogglingly ignorant on the situation, and sadly underestimating how bad things have gotten...
Majority was not enough to pass it. Dems do not have 60 seats in senate. - Bill was killed by 53 to 46 votes . -It was republicans who killed it. When Dem get over 60 seats and senate and similar split in house then I think things will at least start moving.
From the CNN article:
The controversial bill won support and derision from both sides of the political aisle. Those voting in favor included 12 Republicans. Sixteen Democrats voted against it and 18 senators switched their votes from an earlier vote to advance the bill on Tuesday.
Hm. It looks to me that if those 16 Democrats voted for it, it would have passed. They only needed 60 votes. Heck, if half of the Democratic dissenters voted for it, it would have passed.
Oh, sorry, did I just rupture your simplistic slogan? Ignore what I just said. Obviously the immigration bill isn't a fantastically complicated piece of law that will have a huge impact in every state. The problem is that the Republicans are meanies and ruined everything!
Everyone was flipping out over this bill. But I didn't hear a single person bring up "National ID". In fact, until now I didn't realize it was part of it.
The reasons I was against the bill:
400 pages is a *lot* of loopholes. If you're going to make an enforceable immigration law, it needs to be short and sweet. Which brings up... The non-enforcement of current immigration laws on the books. We're supposed to believe you're going to enforce the new laws, after you drag your feet on the current ones?
"Today the United States blew up one of it's satellite creating an expanding cloud of debris. It's purpose was to show to the world it's military might and not to fuck around with them."
IE7 is awesome compared to IE6. The problem is that IE6 will be around for a long, long time, so you still have to program your pages for that broken-ass piece of shit.
What's IE6 % now? I think it was 50% of browsers last time I checked.
Yes America. Please become dependent on 3rd world countries for your food supply. I promise that they won't give any special requests for you to use your military or nuclear arsenal.
Key word being "requests".
What the hell are you thinking? You want the most powerful country in the history of mankind at the beck and call of countries that can barely handle "Paved roads" due to corruption and incompetence?
If you're so concerned about the gold farmers feeding themselves, then you should be REALLY concerned about those rich kids. Because if those "rich kids" get sick of dealing with annoying, intrusive, and sometimes criminal gold farmers, they will leave the game.
So, now are you willing to take the complaints seriously? For the sake of the gold farmers?
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I wasn't specific enough, this is one of the things that's plaguing the medical field causing high costs. Not the sole reason.
And even if it cost a dollar to reattach a finger, people will sure for much, much more. Lost work, permanent damages, death, mental anguish, etc. The cost of lawyers to fight these things in court.
"By 2003, medical liability costs reached $26 billion..."
http://www.protectpatientsnow.org/site/c.8oIDJLNn
If you can not get this under control, it doesn't matter who provides the medical care. It's going to be expensive.
And doctors don't have immunity from the consequences of their actions. I specifically added the "Lose their medical license" clause. This means no more suing doctors and hospitals in the hope that they'll throw money at you. Your victory means that you've taken a bad doctor out of the profession and that's all.
The next thing that causes the price of medical care to go up is the sheer amount of illegal immigrants that go in for free health care...
Email does not let you print out pictures that you frame and put up on the wall.
Email is useless for printing out grocery shopping lists, or recipes.
Email does not reach me in my car, where I need the google map.
The other day I printed out a story that needed editing so I could go over it with a highlighter at the local Starbucks. Yes, emailing it to a laptop would have worked great. Do you have 1000$ to give me so I can get a decent one?
Honestly, I'm amazed at how limited your life must be if you haven't encountered *any* of the above scenarios.
I also believe it's up to people to take their health care into their own hands.
And I'm a logical person.
I see the reason health care is so high is because of the lawyers. My solution is this: You cannot sue doctors or hospitals over the medical care they give you.
It would be wrong to keep them completely immune though. So there would be one condition. If you feel you've been wronged so badly, that they're a danger to their patients, you can move to have their ability to practice medicine removed.
There you go. Best of both worlds. You understand that doctors are human and make mistakes. And you also have an outlet for the dangerous ones.
Obviously hot chicks need the resource more. And the well connected people.
Boy, I can hardly wait to be put in charge of the system for determining who needs health care the most.
His point is that the free market has to have a profit margin and that's why public will always outperform private.
The problem with that is that public has no incentive to do better, make the sales, grow, expand and do better. Where Private does because there is a direct risk-reward.
Systems that reward the people in it directly will always do better than those that reward the populace in general.
They can claim the whole frozen wasteland. If no one is willing to fight them for it, it doesn't matter how big the area is they want to claim.
No it's not. It means "Pretty small".
I don't blame Mexicans for coming over and getting jobs. It would be inhuman of them not to.
I blame the Feds for creating laws and not enforcing them. For expecting me to follow the laws, and then turning a blind eye to illegal immigrants. This is their job and they're not doing it!
Heh. It brings a whole new meaning to "Doing the jobs Americans won't do."
A huh. You're completely ignoring point #2 I made. Which is pretty bad considering I only made two points. Let me refresh your memory...
The non-enforcement of current immigration laws on the books.
It doesn't matter what provisions you put into the bill if you don't enforce them. And the past 20 years has shown, they will not enforce them at a Federal level. This is what has gotten us to our current situation! How could you have missed this? Did you think that there wasn't federal laws that could effectively deal with illegal immigrants?
This is why those who want a border fence want a a solid "physical object" fence instead of a "virtual" fence. It's easy to get rid of a virtual fence by adjusting the funding. A physical fence remains there until torn down.
And all the vitriol about "get of jail free" is just ignoring the reality absoulte majority of thses people are just hard working , poor , desperate people.
The "get out of jail free card" is being written by Congressmen and Senators, for Congressmen and Senators. The vast majority of them are multimillionaires, if not all. But nice effort in twisting my words to make it look like I'm attacking Mexicans.
"We didn't let them" means status quo will stay for at least next 2 years - till citizens vote out republicans who seem to be unable to pass any single piece of legislation which is not pork for their corporate handlers.
And now you're officially a partisan hack. I'm a member of "Porkbusters", trying to remove pork and corruption from the political process. If you think this is just a Republican problem, you're mind-bogglingly ignorant on the situation, and sadly underestimating how bad things have gotten...
http://porkbusters.org/
Majority was not enough to pass it. Dems do not have 60 seats in senate. - Bill was killed by 53 to 46 votes . -It was republicans who killed it. When Dem get over 60 seats and senate and similar split in house then I think things will at least start moving.
From the CNN article:
Hm. It looks to me that if those 16 Democrats voted for it, it would have passed. They only needed 60 votes. Heck, if half of the Democratic dissenters voted for it, it would have passed.
Oh, sorry, did I just rupture your simplistic slogan? Ignore what I just said. Obviously the immigration bill isn't a fantastically complicated piece of law that will have a huge impact in every state. The problem is that the Republicans are meanies and ruined everything!
How would the border not be broken after this bill?
All this bill did was make all the illegals legal, and support them. Taking all the pressure off of the government to actually enforce their laws.
The feds were writing their own "Get out of jail free" card, and we didn't let them.
Yeah. It's amazing what a county's influence is, depending on what side you're standing on that "Imaginary line".
So yes. Absolutely. I'm 100% against being forced to support poor people who are on the other side of the imaginary line.
There's very little in law that isn't based on imaginary or abstract concepts.
Sure you don't need one.
By the way, my credit sucks. Mind if I claim to be you and get a housing loan?
A solid national ID would prevent that.
Everyone was flipping out over this bill. But I didn't hear a single person bring up "National ID". In fact, until now I didn't realize it was part of it.
The reasons I was against the bill:
400 pages is a *lot* of loopholes. If you're going to make an enforceable immigration law, it needs to be short and sweet. Which brings up...
The non-enforcement of current immigration laws on the books. We're supposed to believe you're going to enforce the new laws, after you drag your feet on the current ones?
Over it's lifetime, all Xbox 360s have a 100% failure rate.
Why not just go back to 6.1?
"Today the United States blew up one of it's satellite creating an expanding cloud of debris. It's purpose was to show to the world it's military might and not to fuck around with them."
Yeah, I think shocking would cover it.
IE7 is awesome compared to IE6. The problem is that IE6 will be around for a long, long time, so you still have to program your pages for that broken-ass piece of shit.
What's IE6 % now? I think it was 50% of browsers last time I checked.
Yeah. I'm sure the wrist-slapping will be unparalleled in human history.
Yes America. Please become dependent on 3rd world countries for your food supply. I promise that they won't give any special requests for you to use your military or nuclear arsenal.
Key word being "requests".
What the hell are you thinking? You want the most powerful country in the history of mankind at the beck and call of countries that can barely handle "Paved roads" due to corruption and incompetence?
Sheesh. College? That's the "Worst case scenario" you came up with?
One of the things I didn't like about the X-men movies is how the shots were framed. They were set up like a comic book.
The film medium is different than the comic book medium, and playing up to the strengths of film instead of paper would have worked so much better.
Yeah. It was called Die Hard.
We have tons of hero movies. It's great to finally get some *super* hero movies.
And you don't see any connection between the two?
If you're so concerned about the gold farmers feeding themselves, then you should be REALLY concerned about those rich kids. Because if those "rich kids" get sick of dealing with annoying, intrusive, and sometimes criminal gold farmers, they will leave the game.
So, now are you willing to take the complaints seriously? For the sake of the gold farmers?
The people in the US military don't come from the US federal government. They come from states.
Good luck in getting them to attack their homes.
Heh. Your bike sounds great for you. Let us know how you feel about those "Gas guzzling SUVs" when you have a family.