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From: Carbon on 14 Sep 2009 20:08 On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:44:12 -0700, Dinosaur_Sr wrote: > On Sep 13, 1:17 pm, Lloyd Parsons <lloydpars...(a)mac.com> wrote: > >> Yet for all that, they provide the care for less in overhead cost >> than do the insurance companies. > > On what do you base that? All I see is govt squeezing primary care > providers. I see no reduction in overhead..just reduction in > allocation to the actual service. Of course the insurance companies do not have profit margins. Heaven forbid they would take a big fat cut right off the top. And it's not like the sea of documentation they require is a burden on every medical practice in the country. Oh no. That would be totally inconceivable.
From: Carbon on 14 Sep 2009 20:26 On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:51:22 -0400, BAR wrote: > William Clark wrote: >> In article <4LGdnQusqJFTyzXXnZ2dnUVZ_vKdnZ2d(a)giganews.com>, BAR >> <Screw(a)You.Com> wrote: >>> William Clark wrote: >>>> In article <l5uca5d39v9sqb069e2dkooaruvri6es2i(a)4ax.com>, Jack >>>> Hollis <xsleeper(a)aol.com> wrote: >>>>> On 08 Sep 2009 06:30:26 GMT, Carbon >>>>> <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> For the same reason that he didn't release his birth certificate >>>>>> to those birther loons: there is no upside to pandering to >>>>>> retards. >>>>> >>>>> Actually he did release his birth certificate. >>>> >>>> It is in the public records. He didn't have to "release" anything. >>> >>> He did not release a copy of his original birth certificate that was >>> issued at the time of his birth. There is a difference. >> >> No there is not. Sorry, but at least I accept that this is all you >> have. > > Yes, there is a difference in the types of birth certificates that > were provided in 1961 and the ones provided now. I have more > familiarity with birth certificates issued in 1961 than you. Obviously not birth certificates issued in Hawaii...
From: Carbon on 14 Sep 2009 20:27 On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:05:48 -0500, MNMikeW wrote: > "Carbon" <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message > news:4aaece25$0$23971$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com... >> On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:32:26 -0400, William Clark wrote: >>> In article <qgsda59thh0t9c1nct8341gbc57bpsf97n(a)4ax.com>, Jack Hollis >>> <xsleeper(a)aol.com> wrote: >>> >>>> The major problem with US health care is the cost. It's similar to >>>> Cuban cigars. They're the best, no doubt about that, but are they >>>> really worth 3 or 4 times as much as a top quality Dominican? >>> >>> Actually the Cuban cigars are a good analogy to US health care. >>> Cuban cigars are the best, but they are kept unavailable to US >>> citizens for no good reason by a special interest group that wants >>> the market for itself. Just like insurance companies do for the >>> public option in US health care. >> >> An excellent analogy. The corporations which own the US healthcare >> system obviously want to keep prices as high as possible while >> minimizing expenditures. Prices are inflated to absurd levels, claims >> are denied whenever possible. A lot of money gets spread around for >> astroturf campaigns and the like. Large numbers of people will >> uncritically accept whatever they are told, so maybe big healthcare >> will get away with it again. Who knows? > > "Large numbers of people will uncritically accept whatever they are > told," > > LOL! It's true. Why do you think propaganda works?
From: Howard Brazee on 14 Sep 2009 20:44 On 14 Sep 2009 23:06:00 GMT, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote: >What's so funny is Wubya has legacy admission written all over him. His >grandfather, the Nazi collaborator Prescott Bush, was once Chancellor of >Yale. As you know, legacy admissions have historically outnumbered >affirmative action admissions to Ivy League schools. But W's has the Walker Cup in his name! How about those kids!?!?! -- "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department." - James Madison
From: Howard Brazee on 14 Sep 2009 20:45
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:48:55 -0700 (PDT), Dinosaur_Sr <frostback2002(a)att.net> wrote: >On Sep 14, 3:38�pm, William Clark <cl...(a)nospam.matsceng.ohio- >state.edu> wrote: >> In article >> <9a7c191f-1ea8-46fd-9ca1-340f53f8f...(a)k39g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>, >> >> How does Japan do its socialized medicine? -- "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department." - James Madison |