I think that this was about more than firing a worker for malfeasance.
According to that hotbed of radical socialist reporting, the Wall Street Journal:
Unions are pressing Congress to assess how home builder Pulte Group Inc. spent about $900 million in government tax breaks meant to help spur job creation and avoid layoffs.
Note that Pulte is no small mom-and-pop operation; according to their website:
PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE: PHM) based in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., is America's premier home building company with operations in 60 markets and 28 states. The Company has an unmatched capacity to meet the needs of all buyer segments through its brand portfolio that includes Pulte Homes, Centex Homes and Del Webb.
The Stanford studentâ(TM)s blog purports to examine a practice described as âoehistory stealingâ. The use of such a pejorative term obviously reveals a bias..
followed by
.. Epic Marketplace needs this data.. to analyze whether fraudulent activity is taking place.
I support the troops. I guess that makes me a soldier.
Hamas writes:
"Attacking settlers is a natural thing," al-Rashk told Al-Hayat on Saturday, saying the "Zionist settlers are the occupation's first reserve military force."
I was claiming capitation reduces the number of unnecessary medical procedures by removing doctor's incentive to prescribe them.
You have no argument from me there.
In my opinion, capitation also likely reduces the number of necessary medical procedures because it does not merely remove a doctor's incentive to prescribe them, it financially penalizes the doctor for prescribing them. The more procedures done, the less money left in the doctor's (or hospital's) pocket.
That's the advantage of a capitation-based system.
And that, in my opinion, is the disadvantage of a capitation-based system.
There was no problem with your explanation, my problem is that the "capitation rate" is never "high enough" because the folks who determine the rate are trying to squeeze the budget. So instead of squeezing it on a per-procedure level (like with Medicare in the US), it gets squeezed on a "per patient" level based on statistical (un)certainty as to how many model patients will require {no, little, much, extraordinary} amounts of treatment. So while it may work out over the global population, there's a big "if" for individual doctors with patient groups that don't happen to fit the statistical model that the capitation payment was set for. At least that's my take on the issue.
In my friend's case, it was in the US and his "cadillac health insurance plan" refused to pay for a bone marrow transplant because they claimed it was an "experimental" treatment for CML. Finally, after he was out of remission from the first rounds of chemo, when his chances of cure by BMT had gone from 80% to less than 20%, they approved payment. He died.
So I realize that I wasn't talking from personal experience about capitation plans, but I don't see any reason to expect that the financial constraints (and the financial constrainers - those who grant the payment allowances) will be much if any different in the two cases.
The way around this is called capitation payment. A Doctor gets a patient he gets a lump sum. He gets 100 patients, one of whom is really sick, he spends most of his money on the sick guy.
And what happens when the second guy gets really sick? Or the third?
Doctor waits until payment is approved before treating them? That's basically how a good friend of mine died of CLL when his initial chances of recovery were very high.
The KRUPP way; from the wikipedia article you linked to:
Krupp Industries employed workers conscripted by the Nazi regime from across Europe. These workers were initially paid, but as Nazi fortunes declined they were kept as slave workers. They were abused, beaten, and starved by the thousands, as detailed in the book The Arms of Krupp.
I guess that helps to explain your comment that "it's not a total success story".
There are relatively few jobs in the field of climate science that allow questioning global warming. Practically all of the funding for it now derives from global warming alarmism.
There are relatively few jobs in the field of physical science that accept offhand dismissal of thermodynamic principles, the paleoclimate record, and melting of polar icecaps.
If it is done using triangulation then GPS functionality is not needed, hence it will still be able to collect data with GPS off, so long as the phone itself is on.
That's really +1 funny (but I have no mod points).
However don't be fooled into thinking that blank cartridges are foolproof. See the "Safety" and "Fatal accidents" sections in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_(cartridge) for examples.
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According to that hotbed of radical socialist reporting, the Wall Street Journal:
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/12/15/unions-take-fight-with-pulte-to-congress/
Note that Pulte is no small mom-and-pop operation; according to their website:
http://www.pultegroupinc.com/
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(Please don't click on that URL; their web server may collapse if you do and then our poor Commander Taco may be dragged into court.)
Now back to your regularly scheduled bailout
Sure, who better to build a coffin for the remains?
From Epic Marketing's Fine Rebuttal:
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Hmmmm ...
Good Heavens, Man! Do you realize how much money all those extra colors are going to cost the US taxpayer?
Hamas writes:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/hamas-official-israeli-settlers-are-a-legitimate-military-target-1.312108
Well guy, I guess your statements ring out the truth for at least one of the players on that team.
Unfortunately, on might argue that they already are held to that same level of excellence.
+1 Funny!
Oddly enough, the DECT doorbells (e.g., the Gigaset HC450) appear to be a UK thing; I can't find anything like that in the US. Any idea why?
This is sort of "old news"; Wired ran the story last week in Threat Level, about bitcoin and the "silk road" drug marketplace:
Underground Website Lets You Buy Any Drug Imaginable
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/silkroad/
You have no argument from me there.
In my opinion, capitation also likely reduces the number of necessary medical procedures because it does not merely remove a doctor's incentive to prescribe them, it financially penalizes the doctor for prescribing them. The more procedures done, the less money left in the doctor's (or hospital's) pocket.
And that, in my opinion, is the disadvantage of a capitation-based system.
There was no problem with your explanation, my problem is that the "capitation rate" is never "high enough" because the folks who determine the rate are trying to squeeze the budget. So instead of squeezing it on a per-procedure level (like with Medicare in the US), it gets squeezed on a "per patient" level based on statistical (un)certainty as to how many model patients will require {no, little, much, extraordinary} amounts of treatment. So while it may work out over the global population, there's a big "if" for individual doctors with patient groups that don't happen to fit the statistical model that the capitation payment was set for. At least that's my take on the issue.
In my friend's case, it was in the US and his "cadillac health insurance plan" refused to pay for a bone marrow transplant because they claimed it was an "experimental" treatment for CML. Finally, after he was out of remission from the first rounds of chemo, when his chances of cure by BMT had gone from 80% to less than 20%, they approved payment. He died.
So I realize that I wasn't talking from personal experience about capitation plans, but I don't see any reason to expect that the financial constraints (and the financial constrainers - those who grant the payment allowances) will be much if any different in the two cases.
Umm, that should have read "CML".
And what happens when the second guy gets really sick? Or the third?
Doctor waits until payment is approved before treating them? That's basically how a good friend of mine died of CLL when his initial chances of recovery were very high.
I guess that helps to explain your comment that "it's not a total success story".
A perfect illustration of why a "+1 Offtopic" modifier is desperately needed on Slashdot.
There are relatively few jobs in the field of physical science that accept offhand dismissal of thermodynamic principles, the paleoclimate record, and melting of polar icecaps.
Some of them hold the phone incorrectly, so, yes :-)
If it is done using triangulation then GPS functionality is not needed, hence it will still be able to collect data with GPS off, so long as the phone itself is on.
That's really +1 funny (but I have no mod points).
However don't be fooled into thinking that blank cartridges are foolproof. See the "Safety" and "Fatal accidents" sections in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_(cartridge) for examples.
"We don't have default passwords like you do in your country."
dd: opening `/home/drewgle/videos/mary-kate-and-ashley-winning-london.h264': No such file or directory
I am pretty sure that the North Korean government does not provide the US government access to email stored on their servers.
A possible clue ..
Did the clothing have a tag reading "Designed in California"?
He can earn the big bucks now.