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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Instead we have herd mentality - maybe that's what you mean by they want it - they have herd mentality - they don't want to think for themselves beyond their own personal little desires.
Again, yes, BUT the ONLY people who can choose to act like cattle are the cattle themselves. No one can make others behave like a herd. it's a choice made only by the herd members.
I personally believe it's a human condition. It makes us function as a society better. If we were all more like you (Scott Allan Miller) - and had differing opinions, we'd likely be stuck in a major grid lock with nothing ever getting done.
Why is bad decision making and herd control better than grid lock over good decision making?
Well, as a society, the few leaders who get out ahead of the herd actually make it move, perhaps not a great or even good direction, but at least it's not grid lock, i.e. nothing happening. Corrections can be made to something that's moving. If you're in full grid lock, what's to break that to allow actual movement?
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Instead we have herd mentality - maybe that's what you mean by they want it - they have herd mentality - they don't want to think for themselves beyond their own personal little desires.
Again, yes, BUT the ONLY people who can choose to act like cattle are the cattle themselves. No one can make others behave like a herd. it's a choice made only by the herd members.
I personally believe it's a human condition. It makes us function as a society better. If we were all more like you (Scott Allan Miller) - and had differing opinions, we'd likely be stuck in a major grid lock with nothing ever getting done.
Why is bad decision making and herd control better than grid lock over good decision making?
Well, as a society, the few leaders who get out ahead of the herd actually make it move, perhaps not a great or even good direction, but at least it's not grid lock, i.e. nothing happening. Corrections can be made to something that's moving. If you're in full grid lock, what's to break that to allow actual movement?
Logic, discussion, common goals, leadership.
Herd isn't the opposite of gridlock, just look at traffic.
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Really interesting stuff.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/04/upshot/up-birth-age-gap.html
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Another Trump appointee caught stealing millions of dollars.
This brings the # of Trump appointees getting arrested or fired for thievery up to over a dozen.
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Doctor goes after medical corruption in North Carolina where a law exists to ensure that the cost of MRIs stays artificially high and that only hospitals can have them.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Doctor goes after medical corruption in North Carolina where a law exists to ensure that the cost of MRIs stays artificially high and that only hospitals can have them.
This is fantastic! Someone who actually wants to give back.
I love this statement
@article
“If I wanted to just have money, I didn’t have to do all this stuff,” he said. “Do I want to make money? Absolutely. But I didn’t open this imaging center to buy a Lamborghini.”
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Doctor goes after medical corruption in North Carolina where a law exists to ensure that the cost of MRIs stays artificially high and that only hospitals can have them.
This is fantastic! Someone who actually wants to give back.
I love this statement
@article
“If I wanted to just have money, I didn’t have to do all this stuff,” he said. “Do I want to make money? Absolutely. But I didn’t open this imaging center to buy a Lamborghini.”
I'm also glad to hear he's resisted selling the imaging center. I'm sure it's some hospitals that want to jack the prices back up!
And people wonder why we have a medical issue here.
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The high cost of CT and MRI needs to be stopped. These are multi decade old technologies that orgs charge $10k for 15 minutes of use for, all day every day. Fucking absurd.
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@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
The high cost of CT and MRI needs to be stopped. These are multi decade old technologies that orgs charge $10k for 15 minutes of use for, all day every day. Fucking absurd.
The answer is simple.... Mexico.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
The high cost of CT and MRI needs to be stopped. These are multi decade old technologies that orgs charge $10k for 15 minutes of use for, all day every day. Fucking absurd.
The answer is simple.... Mexico.
Go to Mexico to get it done...or...the costs are high because of Mexico? I'm thinking the former, but hate to assume.
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@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
The high cost of CT and MRI needs to be stopped. These are multi decade old technologies that orgs charge $10k for 15 minutes of use for, all day every day. Fucking absurd.
The answer is simple.... Mexico.
Go to Mexico to get it done...or...the costs are high because of Mexico? I'm thinking the former, but hate to assume.
Go to Mexico to get it done. So cheap go get there, so cheap to get work done. If you aren't going to bleed out, Mexico and Colombia are the big answers to healthcare issues in the US.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
The high cost of CT and MRI needs to be stopped. These are multi decade old technologies that orgs charge $10k for 15 minutes of use for, all day every day. Fucking absurd.
The answer is simple.... Mexico.
Go to Mexico to get it done...or...the costs are high because of Mexico? I'm thinking the former, but hate to assume.
Go to Mexico to get it done. So cheap go get there, so cheap to get work done. If you aren't going to bleed out, Mexico and Colombia are the big answers to healthcare issues in the US.
A flight to Mexico for me isn't exactly cheap - but if I'm paying out of pocket for an MRI, it's definitely cheaper (most likely) to fly there, pay cash for MRI and fly back than to have it done here. I can't forget the 1 day minimum, and more likely 2 days of work I'll miss, so I should include that in the cost of going to Mexico for an MRI.
But it's definitely not convenient
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
The high cost of CT and MRI needs to be stopped. These are multi decade old technologies that orgs charge $10k for 15 minutes of use for, all day every day. Fucking absurd.
The answer is simple.... Mexico.
Go to Mexico to get it done...or...the costs are high because of Mexico? I'm thinking the former, but hate to assume.
Go to Mexico to get it done. So cheap go get there, so cheap to get work done. If you aren't going to bleed out, Mexico and Colombia are the big answers to healthcare issues in the US.
If you go to a foreign country and have an MRI done, do you then come back to the US and tell the doctor to look at those results and have them do whatever they need from that?
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@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
The high cost of CT and MRI needs to be stopped. These are multi decade old technologies that orgs charge $10k for 15 minutes of use for, all day every day. Fucking absurd.
The answer is simple.... Mexico.
Go to Mexico to get it done...or...the costs are high because of Mexico? I'm thinking the former, but hate to assume.
Go to Mexico to get it done. So cheap go get there, so cheap to get work done. If you aren't going to bleed out, Mexico and Colombia are the big answers to healthcare issues in the US.
If you go to a foreign country and have an MRI done, do you then come back to the US and tell the doctor to look at those results and have them do whatever they need from that?
I am curious to know who's done that, and if the US doctor accepted the imaging and results as dictated by the Mexican/Colombian radiologist?
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@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
The high cost of CT and MRI needs to be stopped. These are multi decade old technologies that orgs charge $10k for 15 minutes of use for, all day every day. Fucking absurd.
The answer is simple.... Mexico.
Go to Mexico to get it done...or...the costs are high because of Mexico? I'm thinking the former, but hate to assume.
Go to Mexico to get it done. So cheap go get there, so cheap to get work done. If you aren't going to bleed out, Mexico and Colombia are the big answers to healthcare issues in the US.
If you go to a foreign country and have an MRI done, do you then come back to the US and tell the doctor to look at those results and have them do whatever they need from that?
You might, lots of people would. I would not, I'd want my surgeries done in that country, too. Colombia and Mexico are some of the hest healthcare in the world. Once there, why leave?
