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I thought he was MSNBC. At any rate, yes, he's annoying as well. Hannity, Colmes, O'Reilly, Gibson; they all have the same terrible habit. If you ask a question, just shut up and let the person answer. All that shouting just turns into a Jerry Springer-like format. They can try to bill it...

Oh yeah, like car chases and unfaithful murderous missing husbands. The most annoying thing about FOX news IMO are the constant interruptions during interviews as people step all over each others' questions and answers. Why ask a question if you aren't going to let someone answer? It sounds...

The biggest flaw with this "study" is that it doesn't address the inherent unhealthy consequences that predominate the demographic of the uninsured. How many of the uninsured vs insured smoke, eat junk, are over-weight, are alcoholics, use drugs, practice unsafe sex, are homeless, live and work...

You can't possibly be serious. Medicare/Medicaid is an enormous factor in what is wrong with our present system. The deficit values in its accounting alone is a total mess. The way the system is being managed is CREATING ITS OWN inflationary price tag. In this post on another thread, I went into...

Yes, BUT the same government that has issues balancing the books on the present system is going to handle EVERYONE's healthcare? They're going to have more problems trying to convince everyone that they won't screw it up, much less convince them that they'll actually pay less. Unlike driving...

No, thats not happening right now. Businesses that are currently offering healthcare insurance packages are doing so, for the most part, at the cost of the employee. Businesses only pay a part of the premium. The amount that they do pay is only in consideration to what they feel is necessary to...

Thats too bad, because I was going to let you "have it" on your position on how to handle the current terrorism issue. While pulling out of NAFTA and the WTO may be prudent for other reasons, it won't do SQUAT to combat terrorism. How the hell he correlated those 2 issues is beyond me. Like I...

AGREE. It doesn't matter who you require to do what. In the end, you have to fund the account and someone has to write the check. Simply putting the burden on businesses is, well, a poor business decision. AGREE. I'm not opposed to requiring everyone to have healthcare insurance as a law much...

What you are proposing is essentially socialized healthcare and thats a hard sell. Considering our government's track record of handling all their other programs soooo well; you can hardly blame people for being skeptical about how they would handle healthcare if they had the entire thing within...

I was thinking more in lines of influenza, TB, dissentary, hepatitis A, rotavirus, RSV, etc.etc.; none of these have anything to do with life style choices. Even if they did, its OK to allow the "irresponsible" people to roam around to be vectors at the expense of the safety of those that are...

I'm good with that as well; but consider this: There are hundreds of thousands of people that work, but still can't afford healthcare or have enough money for housing outside of government resources. The training that is provided and the subsequent jobs they are elligible to work do not...

One of the many consequences of not providing medical treatment and housing to those that can not afford it include the rampant spread of disease. Since I have a "right" to be protected against such a threat, then the responsibility falls upon the government to provide such protection. I...

This is absolutely true. The standards of care within the industry dictate the minimums; as well as the situation. Here's one of my personal favorite scenarios: Fender bender rear-end collision otherwise perfectly healthy young woman comes in by ambulance. State trooper tells you that the...

These quotes you speak of are not so much self-imposed but regulated and restricted by several factors. First of all, medical schools are attached to teaching hospitals and other facilities that help financially assume the liability costs of having students work in their facilities...

I wish this were true. I would like to believe that it will come true. However, the nursing shortages have lasted for almost 2 decades now and is only getting worse. What a lot of people don't understand is that nursing is not medicine; its "care". Its either specialized or holistic, but it...

Like the previous post, I will stick with AMA data since its readily available and very detailed. When providers enroll with managed care organizations, much like Medicare/Medicaid, they are given a comp program of codes that organize and document their payment structure. Providers have to...

Since the AMA, IMO, has the most well documented studies available to the public on the subject of managed care, I will stick with the details of how this directly impacts them. Hospitals, rehab services, skill nursing facilities and others are all having to deal with the same issues so one can...

Before I go into the details on how managed care organizations and insurers fleece the system, it is necessary to give some a brief explanation of the payment schedule and reimbursement practices that are employed. A lot of people aren't aware of the details, but for those of you who are; I do...

Quote from riserburn: They [HMOs] dictate what, how, and how they will pay or not pay. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote from riserburn: In turn providers...

IMO the costs of caring for the uninsured is THE single largest contributor to the high cost of healthcare. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes that would seem logical; in theory. BUT based off of what we know about governement tendencies...