The liability for an Anesthesiologist is extremely high. Thier annual malpractice insurance premiums typically run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's no wonder that few carriers want to deal with their compenstation and try to leave the patient on the hook.
Parent should be modded up. Many are screaming that any kind of progressive change to the health care system would be socialistic. Yet they all refuse to recognize that nearly the entire system we have is already heavily regulated and in no way represents any kind of free market. I assert that excessive regulation and the insurance companies are a huge part of the problem. Unless a new adminstration is willing and able to tackle these issues nothing will change.
One of my job responsibilities is to support a Home Health Care system's application and I have a lot of experience with supporting them. The percentage of effort and expense put into keeping up with constantly changing regulatory mandates is truly staggering. I personally don't understand why people continue to get in the business anymore because they are constantly squeezed between increasing costs, and shrinking revenues. A major portion of the cost increases are due to administrative overhead a substantial portion of which is dedicated to ensuring regulatory compliance. I'm not generally a proponent of deregulation, but in the case of health care the government and industry both have made a huge complicated mess of the entire system.
The problems with our current 'private' insurance system have already been well articulated in other posts here. There's also the topic of legal liability which I won't even start in on. Bottom line is that we all need to be willing to start rebuilding the system from the ground up if we truly want change.
Well, when it starts acting up it only takes a gallon or so of clean gas to get it running again. I'm assuming it's water as this started after I had used up some gas we had in a tank for hurricane season that had been stored in my not-completely-waterproof shed. I put some in the mower, then used the rest in the truck. The mower wouldn't start until I completely replaced the old gas, which is not so easy to do in the truck.
The truck only has a problem when the guage gets fairly low, but not empty. It runs great the rest of the time. This is a custom, oversized tank that the previous owner had put in so maybe that has something to do with the problem only showing up when it's nearly empty.
There's even a video of it in action, removing gasoline from water."
What I need is the exact opposite of this. I have water in the gas tank of my old truck that I can't seem to get rid of. Every time the guage gets below about an eighth of a tank, it begins coughing and stalling. I've tried some commercial remedies available at auto parts stores, but nothing seems to work well. Draining the tank is a real pain, as well as being very dangerous.
Wow, what a coincidence...just as I was typing this, Car Talk came on the radio. Maybe I'll call those guys.
I was following a doctor on rounds one day going from room to room. We got to one patient's room and he wanted to chart something. So he went to reach for his pen, but instead he pulled out a thermometer. "Damn" he said, "you know what this means? Some asshole has my pen!"
We have 'freedom of information' laws on the books, but as I understand it they wouldn't apply in this case. Most of these (we call them Sunshine Laws, ironically enough, in Florida) apply to public officials and meetings where public interests are being discussed, or documents that are considered to be in the public domain. There are of course loopholes and they are exploited to the fullest. Elected officials meeting with lobbyists are a prime exmaple.
As a previous poster stated, many if not most states have laws regulating the recording of conversations and generally, they require mutual consent if they are able to be admitted as evidence in a court of law. IANAL, but I would expect this is due to the right of an individual not to self-incriminate. I am all for anything that gets criminals, and especially child predators off the streets, but I'm not sure that allowing this type of evidence in a trial is a road that we want to go down. (Disclaimer, I didn't RTFA).
He worked at a subsidiary of Fidelity and used his access to its database to steal customer names...
I nearly moved all of my 403b funds recently to Fidelity from another company. I'm sure if I had, all of my information would have been at the top of his list.
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In Soviet Russia, asteroid lands on you?
Careful with that. You could get some form of sea-bird STD.
On the other hand, you know what they say...one good tern deserves another.
...I'm glad my Verizon contract is up.
I don't know about that, but on Roland's approach St. Peter was heard to say "oh no, it's Roland".
Spiraling signal? Filaments? Braided rope-like structures?
To me it sounds like they've finally found proof of FSM's existence.
Of course not. It was Al Gore.
The liability for an Anesthesiologist is extremely high. Thier annual malpractice insurance premiums typically run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's no wonder that few carriers want to deal with their compenstation and try to leave the patient on the hook.
Parent should be modded up. Many are screaming that any kind of progressive change to the health care system would be socialistic. Yet they all refuse to recognize that nearly the entire system we have is already heavily regulated and in no way represents any kind of free market. I assert that excessive regulation and the insurance companies are a huge part of the problem. Unless a new adminstration is willing and able to tackle these issues nothing will change.
One of my job responsibilities is to support a Home Health Care system's application and I have a lot of experience with supporting them. The percentage of effort and expense put into keeping up with constantly changing regulatory mandates is truly staggering. I personally don't understand why people continue to get in the business anymore because they are constantly squeezed between increasing costs, and shrinking revenues. A major portion of the cost increases are due to administrative overhead a substantial portion of which is dedicated to ensuring regulatory compliance. I'm not generally a proponent of deregulation, but in the case of health care the government and industry both have made a huge complicated mess of the entire system.
The problems with our current 'private' insurance system have already been well articulated in other posts here. There's also the topic of legal liability which I won't even start in on. Bottom line is that we all need to be willing to start rebuilding the system from the ground up if we truly want change.
Q. You know what the first thing is that goes through a mosquito's mind when he hits your windshield?
A. His ass.
Don't you mean gruntled worms?
Well, when it starts acting up it only takes a gallon or so of clean gas to get it running again. I'm assuming it's water as this started after I had used up some gas we had in a tank for hurricane season that had been stored in my not-completely-waterproof shed. I put some in the mower, then used the rest in the truck. The mower wouldn't start until I completely replaced the old gas, which is not so easy to do in the truck.
The truck only has a problem when the guage gets fairly low, but not empty. It runs great the rest of the time. This is a custom, oversized tank that the previous owner had put in so maybe that has something to do with the problem only showing up when it's nearly empty.
Wow, what a coincidence...just as I was typing this, Car Talk came on the radio. Maybe I'll call those guys.
China plans to export Democracy to the US. Film at 11:00.
Will it run Vista?
Not nececssarily. Elvis lived fast, died young (kind of) but definitely left a big scary corpse...
...ducks and runs
Staples just called. You'll need to retract your 'That was easy' post.
I was following a doctor on rounds one day going from room to room. We got to one patient's room and he wanted to chart something. So he went to reach for his pen, but instead he pulled out a thermometer. "Damn" he said, "you know what this means? Some asshole has my pen!"
We have 'freedom of information' laws on the books, but as I understand it they wouldn't apply in this case. Most of these (we call them Sunshine Laws, ironically enough, in Florida) apply to public officials and meetings where public interests are being discussed, or documents that are considered to be in the public domain. There are of course loopholes and they are exploited to the fullest. Elected officials meeting with lobbyists are a prime exmaple.
As a previous poster stated, many if not most states have laws regulating the recording of conversations and generally, they require mutual consent if they are able to be admitted as evidence in a court of law. IANAL, but I would expect this is due to the right of an individual not to self-incriminate. I am all for anything that gets criminals, and especially child predators off the streets, but I'm not sure that allowing this type of evidence in a trial is a road that we want to go down. (Disclaimer, I didn't RTFA).
Well, at least they didn't get a BSOD (Blue Sky Of Death).
...I once heard: Mopeds are like fat chicks. They're fun, but you wouldn't ever want your buddies to see you riding one.
What I want to know is how they got the sharks to swim in gasoline? Sharks on a plane. With lasers. In a gas tank. What could go wrong?