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24th May 2017, 01:32 PM | #3241 |
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Just remember to take the CBO score seriously, not literally.
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24th May 2017, 01:37 PM | #3242 |
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CBO score is out.
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24th May 2017, 01:49 PM | #3243 |
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That's standard practice for any ED large enough to benefit from dividing care into urgent and emergent. It makes no sense to send non-paying ED patients to the more-expensive-to-run ED when your urgent care is available.
From your posts in the 'Trump has NPD' thread you imply you own the facility and that the docs and mid-level providers work for you. In this thread it sounds like a different story. Just curious. |
24th May 2017, 02:05 PM | #3244 |
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24th May 2017, 03:43 PM | #3247 |
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24th May 2017, 04:50 PM | #3248 |
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24th May 2017, 04:53 PM | #3249 |
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And don't forget that the premium drops are because they removed the health care. Lowest premiums in the states that provide the least coverage. This cannot be considered a positive.
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25th May 2017, 05:36 AM | #3250 |
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A Republican candidate assaulting a reporter for asking a question about the CBO score is a perfect anecdote for the politics of Trumpcare.
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26th May 2017, 09:26 AM | #3251 |
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26th May 2017, 11:22 AM | #3252 |
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Yep, pretty much.
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26th May 2017, 03:58 PM | #3253 |
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Federal law could demand that all insurance companies operating in a state, with employer based plans, also have to offer plans to individuals. Subsidized or not. That way the two types of insurance would approach each other. Employers would pay about half of it for employees.
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26th May 2017, 09:10 PM | #3256 |
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McConnell: 'I don't know' how we get to 50 votes on health care bill
I think we can all quit worrying about repeal for the moment. |
27th May 2017, 08:32 AM | #3257 |
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It's really not that difficult. My job is a practice admin for a mid-sized medical clinic (and thus, managing the credentials and licensing of the professionals that work for us) and I also have an investment in a physician-owned hospital.
I'm not sure why you are dragging the other thread into this one... But you'll forgive me, I trust, if I put you in the "medical professional who doesn't acknowledge/know her own limitations" category. |
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28th May 2017, 08:40 PM | #3258 |
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1. He'd never do that. 2. Okay but he's not currently doing it. 3. Okay but he's not currently technically doing it. 4. Okay but everyone does it. 5. He's doing it, we can't stop him, no point in complaining about it. 6. We all knew he was going to do it which... makes it okay somehow. 7. It's perfectly fine that's he's doing it. |
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29th May 2017, 11:40 AM | #3260 |
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It's a little early to quit worrying. Trump is doing everything he can to sabotage the ACA as it exists now even if his plan doesn't pass.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.320a5a253a4f |
30th May 2017, 12:12 PM | #3261 |
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If this is in reference to the rate increase mentioned above, then this isn't actually the issue.
At present, insurers are required to offer "Cost Share Reduced" plans to people with sufficiently low incomes. So for the same list price (the premium at which the plan is filed), that individual pays lower deductibles, copays, coinsurances, and out of pocket maximums - they pay less at the point of service. Generally, lowering the point of service costs would increase the premium. Instead of this, however, the government has agreed (via ACA) that they will pay the insurer directly for the difference in point of service costs, so that the customer doesn't see a higher premium. Trump and the Republicans are trying to renege on that deal. As it's being discussed right now, they would stop paying the insurers for the extra coverage, but still disallow insurers from charging a higher premium. Insurers then need to increase their premiums across the board in order to offset the increased coverage levels. |
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30th May 2017, 12:43 PM | #3263 |
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A physician makes the case for a national single-payer system:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health...ly_option.html |
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31st May 2017, 11:52 AM | #3269 |
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Well, back in the 'good ol' days', when the only way to get affordable insurance was through your employer, people quite often were willing to put up with worse working conditions, as being unemployed meant they'd loose their insurance. I guess manufacturing artificial job loyalty is sort of like serving business well...
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31st May 2017, 12:15 PM | #3270 |
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The problem of health insurance also kept employees from starting their own business.
In the good old days the individual market for health insurance was basically broken. Affordable coverage was only available to those with no pre existing conditions. If you developed a serious health problem, your insurance company would try every trick in the book to drop coverage. |
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31st May 2017, 12:58 PM | #3273 |
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Of course. Not exactly "broken", though. It was built into the system. It was their obligation as responsible capitalists. The untrammeled free market at its best. Health "insurance" and health care are only tenuously related to each other at the best of times, and in a pure capitalist environment where the insurance companies are motivated by nothing but the pursuit of profit that relationship becomes nonexistent. |
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31st May 2017, 01:00 PM | #3275 |
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It's a bit dated but it's computer speak for what you see is what you get. In other words, I'll look at the validity of posts and citations, but anything claimed to be known from personal knowledge, not so much.
The credibility of forumite's expertise has to be earned. No one is obligated to believe I'm a nurse practitioner with 4 decades of experience. I assume some people on the forum know from my posts that I am and do have that expertise. No doubt others simply don't believe it. That's their prerogative. There are lots of people here with all kinds of expertise that I respect. Even some I disagree with on their political positions, I respect their knowledge in other areas. But it's common knowledge that people on forums make false claims about their occupations and expertise. So you take things they assert from personal knowledge with a grain or more of salt. |
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King County WA public heath posted a map of the effect of the ACA on the percentage of those insured in the county (Seattle is in King County). It's stunning.
The article: ONE MAP SHOWS HUGE IMPACT OF ACA LOCALLY
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31st May 2017, 01:12 PM | #3278 |
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I think my business can be well-served in a number of different ways. One of those ways, however, is not single-payer.
If insurance became a smaller part of the health care payment system, we could probably do better as a business. I wouldn't have to bill third-parties and cross my finger that we get paid what we should. I just collect full payment at the time of service. Imagine how much money I could save . . . |
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