The surrounding area may be quite old based on the crater count but it seems that the "lakes" must have come a some later time as they do not show any impacts.
Does this make sense?
Sorry, it did look a bit overboard.
Your are correct in that the drug company should be compensated for their costs in bringing a drug to market. But, really, don't you feel that they go way overboard to the point of gouging the public. We are all entitled to compensation for our efforts but there is a limit especially if we paid for the foundation work. Patent protection does not mean thousands of $ per month for a drug that returns its costs many times over in the first year of a 17 year patent with the remaining 16 years being almost pure profit...
Seems to me that anything - books, medical procedures and devices, pharmaceuticals, etc. - belong to the public and we should not have to pay for them...
I have to agree with most of what you say and I too believe that national healthcare is inevitable. I particularly agree that getting the for profit insurance companies out of the picture would reduce costs big time.
I do not believe the $3-5 cost figure to send and process a claim. I worked for years in an independant laboratory where I was responsible for all of the claims processing using our computers. We filed 80 to 1000 claims at a time at the click of a button and received the claims outcomes the same way. The only human involvement being handling the exceptions. While there were numerous exceptions they did not bring our cost to anything near $3-5 per claim. We even handled paper bills to patients using an electronic service which took my file, printed the bill to our specification, stuffed it in an envelope and mailed it for less than $0.50!
IMHO there is a broad gulf between the cost of healthcare and the price of healthcare. To use my experience again the lab provided numerous tests for a very low price. Our average cost was just about $9.00/test offered including panels. Our prices were not far over that and the company had around $5,000,000 in annual revenue. The lab was sold and the group that purchased it immediately raised the prices several fold generating a mountain of profit at the expense of the healthcare consumer. This group consisted of a local "non-profit" hospital and another independant laboratory in another city.
Another example: I looked up the cost of flu shots on the CDC site today and the cost including the syrenges and needles was not over $1.60 yet you cannot get a flue shot where I live for less than $20.00!
I believe national health care is coming but, with regards to the upcoming election, I do not see anyone with the strength to get it going.
This has nothing to do with transcription errors. They will happen no matter what as long as people are involved.
I believe that massive healthcare databases could solve myriad problems particularly that of providing all doctors access to your complete medical record.
This whole privacy thing is a sham and things like HIPAA are solutions looking for problems.
I find it entertaining that the proprietary software crowd seems to feel entitled to any and all profits to be made. What a farce. Next thing they will want government subsidies to make up for the "losses." Thing is, in todays world, they will probably get it - at our expense!
If you want to compete with Open Source you simply need to make a product that I feel is better and worth paying for.
Why, just last year I lost over $100 billion because I didn't own M$.
Since when are we obliged to view advertising?
I pay for my connection and the advertiser has absolutely no right use it. It's like the people who bitch when I sign up for the no-call list.
Slashdot Mirror
Does this mean I can snort a line of bacon and get high!
Home page loads in 2 seconds in my environment. Maybe it's that dialup modem under your desk - LOL
Review of one wacko's paper by another wacko, while peer review, does not validate it.
Yes and we'll send the corporations as our representatives at the convention.
The wife and I have been doing DIY biology for years and we have 3 kids and 3 grandkids to show for it.
before I believe this. How does one spend that much per record? A bit more detail would be nice...
I think a T-Rex with 2M horns just walked by my office window...
You know damn well it tastes like chicken!
The surrounding area may be quite old based on the crater count but it seems that the "lakes" must have come a some later time as they do not show any impacts. Does this make sense?
Well, she's at least as qualified as Al Gore...
our pictures. This is a bit of a scam as they, in essence, are storing them with this latest invasion.
Sorry, it did look a bit overboard.
Your are correct in that the drug company should be compensated for their costs in bringing a drug to market. But, really, don't you feel that they go way overboard to the point of gouging the public. We are all entitled to compensation for our efforts but there is a limit especially if we paid for the foundation work. Patent protection does not mean thousands of $ per month for a drug that returns its costs many times over in the first year of a 17 year patent with the remaining 16 years being almost pure profit...
Whos'e that walking on my bridge? Fox what?
Seems to me that anything - books, medical procedures and devices, pharmaceuticals, etc. - belong to the public and we should not have to pay for them...
Have a look at the Tesla roadster and sedan.
I turned 65 this week and am developing. Go for it!
Now there's an oxymoron.
I have to agree with most of what you say and I too believe that national healthcare is inevitable. I particularly agree that getting the for profit insurance companies out of the picture would reduce costs big time.
I do not believe the $3-5 cost figure to send and process a claim. I worked for years in an independant laboratory where I was responsible for all of the claims processing using our computers. We filed 80 to 1000 claims at a time at the click of a button and received the claims outcomes the same way. The only human involvement being handling the exceptions. While there were numerous exceptions they did not bring our cost to anything near $3-5 per claim. We even handled paper bills to patients using an electronic service which took my file, printed the bill to our specification, stuffed it in an envelope and mailed it for less than $0.50!
IMHO there is a broad gulf between the cost of healthcare and the price of healthcare. To use my experience again the lab provided numerous tests for a very low price. Our average cost was just about $9.00/test offered including panels. Our prices were not far over that and the company had around $5,000,000 in annual revenue. The lab was sold and the group that purchased it immediately raised the prices several fold generating a mountain of profit at the expense of the healthcare consumer. This group consisted of a local "non-profit" hospital and another independant laboratory in another city.
Another example: I looked up the cost of flu shots on the CDC site today and the cost including the syrenges and needles was not over $1.60 yet you cannot get a flue shot where I live for less than $20.00!
I believe national health care is coming but, with regards to the upcoming election, I do not see anyone with the strength to get it going.
DiLithium crystals should suffice as a fuel.
Sound does not travel in a vacum. Sound is propogated only in a medium such as air, water, rock, etc.
This has nothing to do with transcription errors. They will happen no matter what as long as people are involved.
I believe that massive healthcare databases could solve myriad problems particularly that of providing all doctors access to your complete medical record.
This whole privacy thing is a sham and things like HIPAA are solutions looking for problems.
I find it entertaining that the proprietary software crowd seems to feel entitled to any and all profits to be made. What a farce. Next thing they will want government subsidies to make up for the "losses." Thing is, in todays world, they will probably get it - at our expense! If you want to compete with Open Source you simply need to make a product that I feel is better and worth paying for. Why, just last year I lost over $100 billion because I didn't own M$.
I don't know about the realities of this car. My question is why does it have to be so butt ugly? I'd settle for 80 mpg and a little more esthetics.
Gaslights are obsolete?
Since when are we obliged to view advertising? I pay for my connection and the advertiser has absolutely no right use it. It's like the people who bitch when I sign up for the no-call list.