The 'High Quality' of American 'Health Care'
Just Me
cutter. Last time I'll try high-jacking an Arab airliner by that
method. Well, it cost me near 800 bucks--no stitches just magic glue
and a band-aid applied by a nurse out in the crumby hallway. Yeah! And
that was after being ejected from the examining room by somebody on a
gurney in cardiac arrest--but that was after 45 minutes of sitting
there, unattended, holding my own thumb together while that so-called
"doctor" (turned out to be a crumby osteopath for the crissake!) sat
out there at his desk shuffling papers and flirting with the nurses.
Next time I try to highjack something, it'll be a hospital with a can
of Raid. Damn no count over-paid cockroaches. Now they just want to
make the lazy bastards even filthier rich by taxing every man jack to
pay for their doctor yachts and doctor mansions and doctor Maseratis.
Next time I cut my thumb, I'll put on my bearskin coat and go to a
vet. Get some decent, affordable treatment, for once. When Mr. Pussy,
our cat got sick, it only cost us 45 bucks, and to beat that, would
you believe he actually got well?
I mean, what the hell? You always hear about senior citizens trying
to get along by eating cat and dog food? Why not let us save a few
more bucks by going to a horse doctor, if we'd have a mind to like,
get some better treatment?
Mark
If American 'Health Care' were a restaurant,
it'd be a 35 dollar bowl of soup with a fly in it.
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Mark
Jared
> to get along by eating cat and dog food? Why not let us save a few
> more bucks by going to a horse doctor, if we'd have a mind to like,
> get some better treatment?
Wouldn't it be a good idea if the government facilitated the sharing
of information about doctors and hospitals, so we could make better
choices?
Mark
"The government" can't even keep up with postage
and child molesters. But you have the right idea.
And where do we put this information? Yes...on
the internet, in a highly profitable new website,
dedicated to accruing the world's largest database
on medical professionals and their case histories.
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Mark
G.E., making imagination work...for minimum wage
john.ku...@sympatico.ca
Yes but it would be a privately supplied bowl of tainted soup so
superior to any government funded bowl of soup tainted or not.
Tell it to the starving man.
Mark
<john.kulczy...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Tell it to the starving man.
Starving people are evidence of the
efficacy of evolution.
I make my own soup.
gekko
<jpd...@gmail.com> when they're posting on misc.writing-ingbird hill:
> About a month ago I nearly sliced off half my thumb with a box-
> cutter
Practice makes perfect, luvvy. Better luck, etc.
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gekko
Self-worth and knowing how cool you are even if some folks might not
agree is _intrinsic to happiness. -- S. Towse
Jared
You could enforce the collection of a lot of data that's not
personally identifiable.
My insurance company has a search engine that theoretically provides a
profile of each doctor in their network. Yet in practice, there's
virtually no data recorded. I assume that's because it's voluntary and
doctors can't be bothered.
Another possibility is that HIPAA makes it impossible to collect the
statistics that are needed to make sensible choices among doctors, but
it shouldn't be that way.
Bill Penrose
> If American 'Health Care' were a restaurant,
> it'd be a 35 dollar bowl of soup with a fly in it.
But you'd get four or five bills for it. One from the cook, one from
the server, one from the maitre d', and one from his uncle.
Oh, and one from the fly wrangler.
DB
Mark
Oh yeah! And of course, there'd be the
invoice where you "accidently" get billed for 2 flys
instead of 1.
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Mark