I believe that's what many of the Canadians want. Private clinics are popping up all over the Canada as we speak, for those who's willing to pay more for the faster service.
The chosen plan was some kind of Blue Cross or Blue Shield "preferred" plan or something - I can't recall exactly, but it was definitely one of the largest insurers around. For medical, it was as good a deal as we could find, and overall it wasn't bad, as far as these things go. For vision and medical, I got a few comments from receptionists about how lucky I was to have such a good plan. It was only the dental that was a complete joke.
My bad, I thought that you had both shitty dental AND medical. Thanks for posting the info about Blue Cross's shitty dental plan as we all now know which dental plan to avoid.
HALIFAX - Canadians are willing to pay more to support health care, even though confidence in the system is falling, a new poll shows.
That's from the first link. Are they supporting a lost cause?
Your third link compairs two private clinics as shown by the title "Comparison of Mortality Between Private For-Profit and Private Not-For-Profit Hemodialysis Centers". Do you even read the links that you post?
Bill and Terry Will of Chesapeake, Va., together earn about $70,000 a year, and yet it's a struggle to provide for their family and pay off their credit card debt. Terry, 44, is a nurse and Bill, 50, manages a warehouse that ships food and supplies to other countries.
Your "Rich people demand and get more treatment, but it doesn't help them" concludes that "Compared with those with lower incomes or less education, upper middle-class Canadians gain preferential access to services within the publicly funded health care system yet remain more likely to favor supplemental coverage or direct purchase of services." So I guess more income and more education still means better treatment in Canada.
The Wills have five children at home, ages 2 to 17. They budget every penny and have no savings, no college fund, no retirement nest egg.
From the USA today link. I guess we all should support people who decide to have large families.
Your "Studies Show U.S. Spending Doesn't Get Best Health" link doesn't even work.
As for the majority of the Americans supporting universal healthcare, I already posted a post with a poll supporting that fact in another thread. However, unlike you, I also posted another fact from the poll showing that most of them don't consdier the universal healthcare to be their priority.
Other doctors have seen their premiums more than double in a few years. Dr. Kimberly Alumbaugh, an obstetrician/gynecologist who heads up the local chapter of the ACOG, said some local obstetricians pay $45,000 to $50,000 a year for malpractice insurance, compared with $25,000 to $30,000 three years ago.
Dr. Gerald Harpel of Cynthiana, who said he never had an obstetrics claim filed against him, saw his premiums rise from $27,000 two years ago to $85,000 this year.
Now I'm not saying that you are wrong as there are other costs (i.e., hospital overhead, drug cost, etc) that's not factored in.
Yes, the Canadians love their government-run healthcare so much that the private sector medcial centers are growing. I don't even like Rush Limbaugh so I'll use the actual Canadian news sources.
I suppose you are going to aruge that Rush Limbaugh controls the Canadian media because they disagree with you? Do you own research, folks! Blindingly following Socialists is as danagerous than blindingly following the Republicans or Democrats.
You do have a point but you're also ignoring a fact from the very source that you quote.
The other one-third of malpractice insurers' costs comprise legal costs for policyholders who are sued and underwriting and administrative expenses. Those types of costs have also increased. Like claims payments, legal-defense costs grew by about 8 percent annually during the 1986-2002 period, from around $8,000 per claim to more than $27,000.
As I stated on the other post, you lose with either Bush (pro-insurance) or Kerry (pro-lawyers).
If you agree to a proceedure and decide later that if it were done a different way the outcome may have been different, then you should sue yourself for being stupid and not getting a second opinion.
You forget that in America:
1. It's never your fault.
2. If something happens to you, even by your lack of research or own actions, sue, sue, sue! (i.e. McDonalds obsity suit)
By "Medical malpractice", do you mean just the lawsuits or does that include insurance premiums as well? And can you give us the source of your figure?
According to this report by GAO, it seems that the malpractice premiums are going up but the insurance comanies' net loss is growing as well. That leads me to believe that only one who's profiting from this are the lawyers. So try again, and this time without simply mimicing Democrate talking points.
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I think it makes a valid point, and that the governments' willingness to bow to corporate interests because they have conslidated power in the form of money, whereas the consumers do not, is a good indications of the destabilizing of the integrity of the government.
What do you mean consumers don't have any money? Where do you think those mega corps get their money from?
a budy of mine bought a dell, even though i and others told him not to. his power supply went out during warranty, got a new one. his power supply went out again, but this time he wasn't under the warranty any more. he couldn't drop a normal power supply in, because the locations were different and he would have to cut some metal. so he purchased a new case.
Same exact thing happend to my sister-in-law's dell. Her power supply went out right after the warrenty expired. I bought a standard powersupply for her but I didn't quite line up. She was tight on money so she told me to go ahead and do some cutting.
hat rationale makes no sense to the Programmers Guild and other groups that have sprung up to resist the tech visas. Since more than 100,000 American programmers are unemployed -- and many more are underemployed -- the existing 65,000 quota is inexcusably high, they argue. H-1B and L-1 visas are "American worker replacement programs," says the National Hire American Citizens Society.
The question is, how many of them are good programmers vs. programmer wannabe out of a paper mill during the boom that only cared about the money?
The average wage for an American programmer runs about $60,000, says John Bauman, who set up the Organization for the Rights of American Workers. Employers pay H-1Bs an average $53,000.
Average difference of $7,000 doesn't seem high enough to go through the hassles of H-1 program. I'm wonder if many of the unemployed programmers are making good use of networking and job searching skills.
How about making the customers happy? Personally, I can't believe that 1 out of 5 CDs are sold in Walmarts. I can't stand their stores. I absolutely DREAD entering one.
As long as consumers like you continue to shop there, they have absolutely no incentives to change their business practices.
Many people complain that Wal-Mart is a big bully, but no matter how big a company it is, it cannot stand against massive boycotts by the consumers because it hurts their profits. However, it seems that for many, cheap prices and convenience outweigh their beliefs.
If you read the Indymedia Thread, you'll notice that U.S. law enforcement agencies work closely with European counterparts a lot more than we've led to believe.
If you RTFA, you've noticed that the story came out at 02:00 AM Oct. 06, 2004 PT. Second, the main point of my post is to point out that both Republican and Democrat senators sponsored this.
Who is going to audit the auditing software? Who gets to assign permissions? How can this be anonymized? Why are these just recommendations?
I hope they do a better job than IRS did with their database. I heard that when the IRS database was initally deployed, it did not have permissions set and the IRS employees where able to take a look at their neighbors' tax returns.
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why not just have both?
I believe that's what many of the Canadians want. Private clinics are popping up all over the Canada as we speak, for those who's willing to pay more for the faster service.
My niece was killed by a flying lawnmower
She's better now
Huh?
I guess she just respawned.
The chosen plan was some kind of Blue Cross or Blue Shield "preferred" plan or something - I can't recall exactly, but it was definitely one of the largest insurers around. For medical, it was as good a deal as we could find, and overall it wasn't bad, as far as these things go. For vision and medical, I got a few comments from receptionists about how lucky I was to have such a good plan. It was only the dental that was a complete joke.
My bad, I thought that you had both shitty dental AND medical. Thanks for posting the info about Blue Cross's shitty dental plan as we all now know which dental plan to avoid.
we had a meeting where we collectively chose the best health care plan we could find for the company.
I guess you as a group made a wrong choice. Even a cheap student insurance I had during my college years wasn't that shitty.
HALIFAX - Canadians are willing to pay more to support health care, even though confidence in the system is falling, a new poll shows.
That's from the first link. Are they supporting a lost cause?
Your third link compairs two private clinics as shown by the title "Comparison of Mortality Between Private For-Profit and Private Not-For-Profit Hemodialysis Centers". Do you even read the links that you post?
Bill and Terry Will of Chesapeake, Va., together earn about $70,000 a year, and yet it's a struggle to provide for their family and pay off their credit card debt. Terry, 44, is a nurse and Bill, 50, manages a warehouse that ships food and supplies to other countries.
Your "Rich people demand and get more treatment, but it doesn't help them" concludes that "Compared with those with lower incomes or less education, upper middle-class Canadians gain preferential access to services within the publicly funded health care system yet remain more likely to favor supplemental coverage or direct purchase of services." So I guess more income and more education still means better treatment in Canada.
The Wills have five children at home, ages 2 to 17. They budget every penny and have no savings, no college fund, no retirement nest egg.
From the USA today link. I guess we all should support people who decide to have large families.
Your "Studies Show U.S. Spending Doesn't Get Best Health" link doesn't even work.
As for the majority of the Americans supporting universal healthcare, I already posted a post with a poll supporting that fact in another thread. However, unlike you, I also posted another fact from the poll showing that most of them don't consdier the universal healthcare to be their priority.
I'm sorry that I don't have it in a percentage form but I'll still respectfully disagree with it being a percentage of the cost because But even doctors who have never been sued are facing premiums that can reach $85,000 a year in Kentucky.
Here are some other facts from that article:
Other doctors have seen their premiums more than double in a few years. Dr. Kimberly Alumbaugh, an obstetrician/gynecologist who heads up the local chapter of the ACOG, said some local obstetricians pay $45,000 to $50,000 a year for malpractice insurance, compared with $25,000 to $30,000 three years ago.
Dr. Gerald Harpel of Cynthiana, who said he never had an obstetrics claim filed against him, saw his premiums rise from $27,000 two years ago to $85,000 this year.
Now I'm not saying that you are wrong as there are other costs (i.e., hospital overhead, drug cost, etc) that's not factored in.
Yes, the Canadians love their government-run healthcare so much that the private sector medcial centers are growing. I don't even like Rush Limbaugh so I'll use the actual Canadian news sources.
Canadians want 2-tier health: poll
British Columbia is looking to expand its use of private medical clinics
Private medical clinic opens in Montreal
Pettigrew open to discussing role of private MRI clinics
Even the Canadian medical pot users complain that "He doesn't need government-grown schwag that costs $150 Canadian per 30 grams"
I suppose you are going to aruge that Rush Limbaugh controls the Canadian media because they disagree with you? Do you own research, folks! Blindingly following Socialists is as danagerous than blindingly following the Republicans or Democrats.
You do have a point but you're also ignoring a fact from the very source that you quote.
The other one-third of malpractice insurers' costs comprise legal costs for policyholders who are sued and underwriting and administrative expenses. Those types of costs have also increased. Like claims payments, legal-defense costs grew by about 8 percent annually during the 1986-2002 period, from around $8,000 per claim to more than $27,000.
As I stated on the other post, you lose with either Bush (pro-insurance) or Kerry (pro-lawyers).
If you agree to a proceedure and decide later that if it were done a different way the outcome may have been different, then you should sue yourself for being stupid and not getting a second opinion.
You forget that in America:
1. It's never your fault.
2. If something happens to you, even by your lack of research or own actions, sue, sue, sue! (i.e. McDonalds obsity suit)
(and no comments about Bush, either.. they ALL do it)
You sure got that right. Bush's pro-insurance and Kerry's pro-lawyers. It looks like lose-lose situation to me.
By "Medical malpractice", do you mean just the lawsuits or does that include insurance premiums as well? And can you give us the source of your figure?
According to this report by GAO, it seems that the malpractice premiums are going up but the insurance comanies' net loss is growing as well. That leads me to believe that only one who's profiting from this are the lawyers. So try again, and this time without simply mimicing Democrate talking points.
I think it makes a valid point, and that the governments' willingness to bow to corporate interests because they have conslidated power in the form of money, whereas the consumers do not, is a good indications of the destabilizing of the integrity of the government.
What do you mean consumers don't have any money? Where do you think those mega corps get their money from?
a budy of mine bought a dell, even though i and others told him not to. his power supply went out during warranty, got a new one. his power supply went out again, but this time he wasn't under the warranty any more. he couldn't drop a normal power supply in, because the locations were different and he would have to cut some metal. so he purchased a new case.
Same exact thing happend to my sister-in-law's dell. Her power supply went out right after the warrenty expired. I bought a standard powersupply for her but I didn't quite line up. She was tight on money so she told me to go ahead and do some cutting.
hat rationale makes no sense to the Programmers Guild and other groups that have sprung up to resist the tech visas. Since more than 100,000 American programmers are unemployed -- and many more are underemployed -- the existing 65,000 quota is inexcusably high, they argue. H-1B and L-1 visas are "American worker replacement programs," says the National Hire American Citizens Society.
The question is, how many of them are good programmers vs. programmer wannabe out of a paper mill during the boom that only cared about the money?
The average wage for an American programmer runs about $60,000, says John Bauman, who set up the Organization for the Rights of American Workers. Employers pay H-1Bs an average $53,000.
Average difference of $7,000 doesn't seem high enough to go through the hassles of H-1 program. I'm wonder if many of the unemployed programmers are making good use of networking and job searching skills.
I bet his busy sex life is keeping him from having the other two finished for us.
It's kind of hard to type with one hand.
I had to deploy Microsoft Windows Media DRM for one of the major record labels.
Think of it this way; your work may piss off enough consumers that they'll stop crap from the major record labels.
How about making the customers happy? Personally, I can't believe that 1 out of 5 CDs are sold in Walmarts. I can't stand their stores. I absolutely DREAD entering one.
As long as consumers like you continue to shop there, they have absolutely no incentives to change their business practices.
Many people complain that Wal-Mart is a big bully, but no matter how big a company it is, it cannot stand against massive boycotts by the consumers because it hurts their profits. However, it seems that for many, cheap prices and convenience outweigh their beliefs.
They can use this as an excuse to call the next release Netscape Navigator 10.
Or they can go with Netscape Navigator X or 2004.
If you read the Indymedia Thread, you'll notice that U.S. law enforcement agencies work closely with European counterparts a lot more than we've led to believe.
If you RTFA, you've noticed that the story came out at 02:00 AM Oct. 06, 2004 PT. Second, the main point of my post is to point out that both Republican and Democrat senators sponsored this.
There are backups, but they are not 100% complete as you would expect when the backup is an rsynced db dump done via cron every 24 hours...
Isn't Linus against using dump for backups? In fact, what O/S is Indymedia server running?
So all of 98 Senators who voted for the PATROIT act are actually Republicans?
I'm sure he supported the PMRC too. Silly man. It can't happen, cause the DMCA made that illegal, too. Those legislators think of everything. ;-)
:^P
If he sends himself to jail, he can at least say he did something useful in Senate.
Who is going to audit the auditing software? Who gets to assign permissions? How can this be anonymized? Why are these just recommendations?
I hope they do a better job than IRS did with their database. I heard that when the IRS database was initally deployed, it did not have permissions set and the IRS employees where able to take a look at their neighbors' tax returns.
So while we're all reading dupes, he'll still be just getting the originals.
It's funny because it's true.