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She still hasn't SAID that she isn't coming to MangoCon. But it doesn't seem likely.
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@dashrender I don't claim to care one bit about our customers, but I don't work in a field that has the word "care" in it's name. And if doctors really did care at all, the American health care system would be much less of a joke. Doctors haven't cured anything in decades because they figured out all the $$$$$$ is in treatment of disease, not eradication of disease.
You also don't use government corruption to hold your customer hostage and threaten their lives if they don't come to you.
No doubt! Though, I have hard time not thinking this is mostly driven by the insurance companies than it doctors themselves.. but that's just a feeling, one I'm sure Scott is about to tell me why it's wrong.
No, it's driven by doctors. Take away the insurance, and the issue remains 100%. Insurance companies control your money, but doctors control your access to healthcare. I use doctors directly without insurance and still am extorted. If I need medicine, I can't just buy it without paying a bribe to a doctor.
That's the way it feels with my wife and her Zoloft prescription. Gotta see the doc every 6 months to keep the refills coming.
yeah - that seems over zealous requirement for visits. Has your wife asked why the need for such frequent visits? If so, what was the reasoning?
I definitely agree that some doctors hold you hostage with visits that aren't needed to line their pockets.
Just a "routine checkup to make sure they don't need to adjust it"... How about we call you if we think something is up?
Exactly, if there are no changes on my side, then there is obviously no need to change anything. That said, I'm still not against yearly required visits.
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@dashrender I don't claim to care one bit about our customers, but I don't work in a field that has the word "care" in it's name. And if doctors really did care at all, the American health care system would be much less of a joke. Doctors haven't cured anything in decades because they figured out all the $$$$$$ is in treatment of disease, not eradication of disease.
You also don't use government corruption to hold your customer hostage and threaten their lives if they don't come to you.
No doubt! Though, I have hard time not thinking this is mostly driven by the insurance companies than it doctors themselves.. but that's just a feeling, one I'm sure Scott is about to tell me why it's wrong.
No, it's driven by doctors. Take away the insurance, and the issue remains 100%. Insurance companies control your money, but doctors control your access to healthcare. I use doctors directly without insurance and still am extorted. If I need medicine, I can't just buy it without paying a bribe to a doctor.
That's the way it feels with my wife and her Zoloft prescription. Gotta see the doc every 6 months to keep the refills coming.
yeah - that seems over zealous requirement for visits. Has your wife asked why the need for such frequent visits? If so, what was the reasoning?
I definitely agree that some doctors hold you hostage with visits that aren't needed to line their pockets.
Just a "routine checkup to make sure they don't need to adjust it"... How about we call you if we think something is up?
Exactly, if there are no changes on my side, then there is obviously no need to change anything. That said, I'm still not against yearly required visits.
I'm not against annual checkups either, as long as they're not taking money out of my bum end.
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@dashrender I don't claim to care one bit about our customers, but I don't work in a field that has the word "care" in it's name. And if doctors really did care at all, the American health care system would be much less of a joke. Doctors haven't cured anything in decades because they figured out all the $$$$$$ is in treatment of disease, not eradication of disease.
You also don't use government corruption to hold your customer hostage and threaten their lives if they don't come to you.
No doubt! Though, I have hard time not thinking this is mostly driven by the insurance companies than it doctors themselves.. but that's just a feeling, one I'm sure Scott is about to tell me why it's wrong.
No, it's driven by doctors. Take away the insurance, and the issue remains 100%. Insurance companies control your money, but doctors control your access to healthcare. I use doctors directly without insurance and still am extorted. If I need medicine, I can't just buy it without paying a bribe to a doctor.
That's the way it feels with my wife and her Zoloft prescription. Gotta see the doc every 6 months to keep the refills coming.
yeah - that seems over zealous requirement for visits. Has your wife asked why the need for such frequent visits? If so, what was the reasoning?
I definitely agree that some doctors hold you hostage with visits that aren't needed to line their pockets.
Just a "routine checkup to make sure they don't need to adjust it"... How about we call you if we think something is up?
Exactly, if there are no changes on my side, then there is obviously no need to change anything. That said, I'm still not against yearly required visits.
I'm not against annual checkups either, as long as they're not taking money out of my bum end.
Even in your free healthcare they are DEFINITELY taking money out of your ass - it's called taxes. But really that is outside this conversation.
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I'd be all for required annual checkups, if insurance could never drop a person for a pre-existing condition. So long as I didn't need to pay the doctor to be there for the annual checkup.
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@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
I'd be all for required annual checkups, if insurance could never drop a person for a pre-existing condition. So long as I didn't need to pay the doctor to be there for the annual checkup.
Again - healthcare is never free - not even in "free healthcare Europe" as the US media calls it. Taxes. HUGE, very high taxes.
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I'd be all for required annual checkups, if insurance could never drop a person for a pre-existing condition. So long as I didn't need to pay the doctor to be there for the annual checkup.
Again - healthcare is never free - not even in "free healthcare Europe" as the US media calls it. Taxes. HUGE, very high taxes.
But at this point, everyone would have insurance and to avoid being dropped for any reason ever all anyone would have to do is visit the doctor for an annual checkup.
This would make the practice a lot like getting your oil changed.
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@hobbit666 it works. . . put it back!
lol. . . Dr. Who
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@dustinb3403 edited lol
For anyone not following the Blue Police box. .
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LOL
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In NIcaragua, doctors are free and work at pharmacies, but yo udon't need a script for anything. Just buy what you need. But I didn't need anything so didn't test that out.
I need 6 lbs of opioids, for um a cough. . .
Viagara is a popular item as well.
...and we're back to the hot roommate.
I doubt anyone would need viagara there! LOL
Pics of the roommate needed for veracity.
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I'd be all for required annual checkups, if insurance could never drop a person for a pre-existing condition. So long as I didn't need to pay the doctor to be there for the annual checkup.
Again - healthcare is never free - not even in "free healthcare Europe" as the US media calls it. Taxes. HUGE, very high taxes.
You may want to look into it. Taxes aren't that much higher in Europe and definitely not when you compare it to things that you "get" for those taxes that you would pay for in the US out of pocket.
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I'd be all for required annual checkups, if insurance could never drop a person for a pre-existing condition. So long as I didn't need to pay the doctor to be there for the annual checkup.
Again - healthcare is never free - not even in "free healthcare Europe" as the US media calls it. Taxes. HUGE, very high taxes.
Actually, that's totally false. Healthcare isn't just free, it GENERATES REVENUE. It's a tax REDUCTION system, not a cost center. Good healthcare increases the economy, it doesn't take out of it.
Saying things like "nothing is ever free" is a really bad way to think of things. Because things aren't just often free, you often make money by doing things.
Example... is spending $5 free? Is GETTING $5 free? If nothing is ever free, how did we ever get the money to spend on all these things in the first place?
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I'd be all for required annual checkups, if insurance could never drop a person for a pre-existing condition. So long as I didn't need to pay the doctor to be there for the annual checkup.
Again - healthcare is never free - not even in "free healthcare Europe" as the US media calls it. Taxes. HUGE, very high taxes.
Actually that's partially why their taxes are so reasonable compared to the US. You say things like that they "pay" for their healthcare. Did you look that up? Because European healthcare's up front cost is trivial compared to the cost of it in the US - and they get so much better healthcare that it actually earns them money. Unlike in the US where we pay fo much that it doesn't pay off.
European taxes are high, but no different from the US, but go to so many more things.
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I'd be all for required annual checkups, if insurance could never drop a person for a pre-existing condition. So long as I didn't need to pay the doctor to be there for the annual checkup.
Again - healthcare is never free - not even in "free healthcare Europe" as the US media calls it. Taxes. HUGE, very high taxes.
You may want to look into it. Taxes aren't that much higher in Europe and definitely not when you compare it to things that you "get" for those taxes that you would pay for in the US out of pocket.
Even in Texas, my US taxes were lower than the taxes would be with the same income in France or Italy (both with dramatically better healthcare than in the US - being ranked #1 and #2 in the world.) You can't call it "so high" of taxes when it's the same as the "low" taxes.
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