From: Dinosaur_Sr on
On Feb 14, 7:48 am, BAR <sc...(a)you.com> wrote:
> In article <4b773369$0$22816$882e0...(a)news.ThunderNews.com>,
> NoS...(a)NoThanks.net says...
>
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> > > What's the average per physician cost of malpractice insurance at your
> > > facility? What's the average per medical personnel cost of malpractice
> > > insurance at your facility?
>
> > I don't have those numbers in a form that is easy to gather -- but I can
> > tell you this -- our total insurance costs --- including buildings,
> > liability, malpractice -- you name it -- is under 1% of total Gross
> > Revenues -- and -- taking the contractual deductions into the equation -- it
> > is still 1.34% of Net Revenues.
>
> > This includes family practice docs -- ortho surgeons - general surgeons --  
> > pediatricians --- cardio-pulmonary -- rehabs ---
>
> > We don't do major heart surgery or other surgeries of that type -- we send
> > them out to the specialists.
> > But then -- you didn't address the Texas question -- instead -- you snipped
> > it out --- why should anyone take you seriously?
>
> I was not interested in what Texas has done.
>
> I was interested in the cost of malpractice insurance for persons
> employed by or working under contract at your facility. It is
> interesting that your malpractice insurance costs is only 1% of gross
> revenue. But, that doesn't give a picture of how many physicians are on
> staff and what their average malpractice insurance costs. What is the
> total number of staff physicians, total number of contract physicians
> and total number of physicians who have admitting privileges at your
> facility. What I would like to know is whether your contract physicians
> and physicians with admitting privileges have to pay, out of their own
> pocket, for malpractice insurance to cover your facility while
> practicing in your facility.

Also misses the point, if it is so little, such a non big deal, why
not give it to them? It'll keep them happy and move the process
along.....
From: dene on

<bknight(a)conramp.net> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:18:00 -0800, "dene" <dene(a)remove.ipns.com>
> wrote:
>
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> > If people wait until they are
> >sick, then buy guaranteed health insurance, then naturally they will buy
the
> >"best bang for the buck." The chosen insurance company will receive a
few
> >hundred and end up paying thousands.
> >
> >This business concept means nothing to liberals. They have no issues
with
> >spending other people's money.
>
> So, only liberals wait until they get sick and then buy the "best bang
> for the buck." ?
>
> BK

That would be a different L word....losers.

Liberals are leading the charge to have guaranteed issue health insurance.
To do so, without allowing insurance companies to protect their clients and
reserves, is "spending other people's money."

-Greg


From: bknight on
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:31:12 -0800, "dene" <dene(a)remove.ipns.com>
wrote:

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><bknight(a)conramp.net> wrote in message
>news:gtngn5ppj23sggvbkdlb6nnugjcdgoe77d(a)4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:18:00 -0800, "dene" <dene(a)remove.ipns.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > If people wait until they are
>> >sick, then buy guaranteed health insurance, then naturally they will buy
>the
>> >"best bang for the buck." The chosen insurance company will receive a
>few
>> >hundred and end up paying thousands.
>> >
>> >This business concept means nothing to liberals. They have no issues
>with
>> >spending other people's money.
>>
>> So, only liberals wait until they get sick and then buy the "best bang
>> for the buck." ?
>>
>> BK
>
>That would be a different L word....losers.
>
>Liberals are leading the charge to have guaranteed issue health insurance.
>To do so, without allowing insurance companies to protect their clients and
>reserves, is "spending other people's money."
>
>-Greg

But there are no conservatives that wait until they get sick and then
buy the "best bang for the buck." ?

Sure there are.
>
BK
From: Howard Brazee on
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:31:12 -0800, "dene" <dene(a)remove.ipns.com>
wrote:

>Liberals are leading the charge to have guaranteed issue health insurance.
>To do so, without allowing insurance companies to protect their clients and
>reserves, is "spending other people's money.

They lead the charge to insure everybody, which isn't significantly
different from the current system to treat everybody anyway, and make
the rest of us pay.

(except the feds will make the insurance companies stop paying for
abortions).

--
"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: Carbon on
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:03:32 -0700, Howard Brazee wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:31:12 -0800, "dene" <dene(a)remove.ipns.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Liberals are leading the charge to have guaranteed issue health
>> insurance. To do so, without allowing insurance companies to protect
>> their clients and reserves, is "spending other people's money.
>
> They lead the charge to insure everybody, which isn't significantly
> different from the current system to treat everybody anyway, and make
> the rest of us pay.

Good point. If we're already paying for it anyway why not structure the
system to lower cost?