Re: Man, Mr. bush Jr. sure is wicked evil eh?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
   "Bill Hobba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Medicare - another problem - but we need to look at that carefully.  The
>cost of health care is escalating wildly. 

<big nitpick>  The cost of health care _insurance_ is escalating.
To deal with insurance, the medical profession has to spend a large
amount of their working time filling out forms.  If they're filling
out forms, they're not seeing patients.  If they're not seeing
patients, they're not providing the service that takes in money.
Instead of charging x/patient/day, they have to charge 3x/patient/day
to cover business expenses.  Since they have to mimimize the time
per patient, more mistakes get made.  More mistakes means a lot
of very large lawsuits.  More lawsuits means very, very large
insurance payments (the brother of a guy I know does X-ray and
pays $100K/year for lawsuit insurance).  Very, very large
insurance payments means more patients.  JRST .-4.

When I had a doctor, he complained one time about medical 
insurance.  I told him to stop doing insurance and charge 
his patients cash.  His office was in the middle of a
Portuguese community who generally believed in cash anyway.
>From the way he looked at me, I apparently had grown three more
heads.

If he had approached the insurance thing with the attitude
that medical insurance coverage was the exception to the paper
trail rule, he'ld have freed up his time and his staff's time.
With the advent of a paperless insurance trail, the convolutions
that prevent delivering medical services have increased.  
Faster CPUs do not necessarily imply more transactions processed.
It usually implies that more IF-THEN-ELSEs can be inserted for
each transaction.

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/BAH

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