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Spin Zone / Re: My solution for health insurance
« on: August 19, 2019, 06:51:13 AM »I have access to the VA system, but have never even thought of using it. It would be a last ditch desperation move.
Same here.
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I have access to the VA system, but have never even thought of using it. It would be a last ditch desperation move.
This is a little known secret. We can negotiate cash out of pocket and sometimes it is LESS than the copay if we go through insurance. That’s how screwed up the system has become.
Also screwed up is the whole idea of “PCP”. Your general doctor used to handle most of your issues and you had a close relationship with him with mutual trust. Not any more. Dealing with the PCP these days is getting more difficult. People are turning to doc in a box for minor things. They take walk ins, they don’t grill you about your whole health picture other than the basics necessary to treat your minor ailment, and they act like they appreciate your business. The last three visits I made to urgent care were a pleasure. In and out in an hour. The last three times I moved and just tried to get in with a new PCP were a nightmare. I had to pull teeth just to get the first appointment.
At one point all medical care was paid for on the spot just like anything else. At that time doctors really couldn't do much, but they made house calls and medical care was inexpensive. As some point, once medical capabilities increased, that medical care got too expensive. I don't know when that was. But at that point insurers began offering coverage, and it went from being a luxury to a necessity for most.
There are still plenty of places you can show up and pay cash for simple medical issues, broken bones and the like. But if you get into any kind of complex medical issue it can get expensive very quickly indeed. I know people ruined by medical issues. It sux to be financially ruined just because you got sick.
Except for SOME elements of Fox News, talk radio, and a few internet sights, the entire Media is purposely only promoting Democrats, and the Democrat agenda. I see this as one of the most dangerous issues facing out country today, and I have no idea how to fix it.
Problem is always in figuring out what’s “catastrophic” and what isn’t. Medical costs aren’t meristic or threshold, they’re quantitative. Should your illness fall just short of “catastrophic” you could be royally fucked.
Let me know how your cancer treatment works out in Columbia.
Problem with medical care is it really doesn't work according to the economics that govern other things. If you want a car, you wait until you have the financial wherewithal, you then shop for the car that meets your specifications for the lowest price.
You never know when you're going to get sick or how bad. You simply can't plan for it. Moreover, once you're sick you're in no position to shop or bargain. You really can't be an informed consumer when it comes to health care. Market economics don't work for medicine, they never have.
What no one really realizes is the system we have was put in place to solve a problem, that's why it's there. The funny thing is it was put in place at least partially through the efforts of Richard Nixon, who I think would be regarded as a flaming liberal today, were he regarded at all.
So I'm seeing a lot of stories/articles in the media on how to prepare for the upcoming recession. Of course, if it's advertised well enough, the people will believe it, clamp shut their wallets, and there really will be a recession. I believe the recession of 2008/9 was largely manufactured.
So who is pulling the strings here? And why? I surmise a certain group of people might think a timely recession just might hurt a certain re-election campaign. Hmmm...
Instead of helping President Trump unify the nation after the recent mass shootings, Democrats are once again peddling the Charlottesville hoax to further inflame America’s divisions.
For two years now, liberals have been brazenly lying about the remarks President Trump made in response to the 2017 Charlottesville tragedy, touting their fabrication as the most convincing evidence available that the president is actually the “white nationalist” they’ve always claimed. Following the twin shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio — which they blame on Donald Trump — Democrats and the mainstream media have predictably trotted out the Charlottesville canard once again.
As I explain in my new PragerU video, the president emphatically did not praise the white supremacists who showed up at the Charlottesville protests. Rather, he praised the “very fine people on both sides” of the lawful demonstrations over the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue, by which he was very clearly drawing a distinction between the peaceful protesters on both sides of that debate and the violent thugs, also representing both sides, who turned a demonstration of free speech into a bloodbath.
On Wednesday, former Google employee Zachary Vorhies went public as the whistleblower who spoke with Project Veritas in June, revealing the political bias in Google's "Machine Learning Fairness" program. He also told the story of police storming his home to perform a "wellness check" after he was outed as a "leaker" and after Google had sent him a demand letter.
Project Veritas released its video with Vorhies (whose identity was masked), exposing the bias in the "Machine Learning Fairness" program and its hidden camera interview footage showing a Google executive describing her work on algorithms to prevent "the next Trump situation." Shortly afterward, the whistleblower received a demand letter from Google.
Vorhies said he complied with Google's demands, including sending any Google documents he retained. But he also sent those documents to the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.
An anonymous account — which Vorhies said he believes belongs to a Google employee — outed him as a "leaker" on Twitter, and then he was approached by law enforcement at his residence in California. San Francisco police received a call from Google which prompted a "wellness check."
"They got inside the gate, the police, and they started banging on my door… And so the police decided that they were going to call in additional forces. They called in the FBI, they called in the SWAT team. And they called in a bomb squad," Vorhies told Project Veritas.
No.