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Valar Morghulis
See ya later, Guyblow.
Hahaha reppp.
See ya later, Guyblow.
Very underrated movie.
Oh, and something called the "Affordable Healthcare Act" was upheld by the Supreme Court. I turned on network news and found out that it will either:
1) cure all diseases for free; or
2) bankrupt the nation to the point where we will all be begging Greece for a loan
Time to throw away the condoms.
This particular bill is not as bad as the people on the right are trying to label it, actually. As long as the public option is kept OFF OF the table for good, tweaks like this are OK.
I will be interested to see how they plan to implement this though. It is going to be more difficult than a lot of people think and politicians are mostly morons so I doubt if they have even considered it.
Well, I have a very good three prong approach to fixing healthcare, and making it still very affordable but I am way too smart to go into politics.
I also have to go get these slides printed for a talk I have to give today at the SER conference (ironic, I know) but ask me next week and I will lay it out.
Well, I have a very good three prong approach to fixing healthcare, and making it still very affordable but I am way too smart to go into politics.
I hope one of those prongs involves the regulation of pharmaceutical and medical supply companies. These people are making 1000%+ profit off of simple medical supplies and prescriptions. Im not going to get into a big rant but these huge markups have put a major strain on the insurance companies who in turn have to pass that cost on to us.
This is a problem that if cleaned up should help EVERYONE. I.E. Lower insurance rates help everyone from joe blow to huge corporations and leave more money to help boost the economy. This is all without getting into how much the government would save on medicare.
There is part of it that deals with that but the pharm companies are not solely to blame for it. When the FDA takes 15 years off of a patent life and companies get drugs taken off the market for side effects that occur in 1/10,000 cases they have to gouge in many cases just to protect themselves. Add in the issues of litigation in this country and it hurts even worse.
The missing partner? The consumer. Sure, you can choose among insurance companies, but they're all pretty similar in price. What exactly is it you're purchasing? How can your insurance cost the same as everyone else at your company? Surely you're healthier than them, right? You don't have any realistic consumer choice in terms of pricing. You can't choose the doctor who gives you the best service for the money, because you are so many levels of indirection away from paying his bill.
Will it work? We'll see. But at least it's a start to a very important and potentially crippling economic/social issue.