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Humana Is Being A Little Dramatic About Alex's Health
No we just need tort reform and to allow people to deliver across state lines. That will solve everything....
....except the cost, quality, pre-existing conditions, and almost everything else wrong with the system.
Humana Is Being A Little Dramatic About Alex's Health
We do, if you're one of the 10% of the population that can afford to pay for it, whether insurance covers it or not. You want to be rich someday don't you? That's why you should oppose reform.
yes, it makes that little sense to me.
Humana Is Being A Little Dramatic About Alex's Health
A friend tried that. There's a two month waiting list. As an aside, I tried making an appoint with three different Ears Nose and Throat persons a few days ago. Earliest appointment at ANY time? Three months. Which I don't understand since that only happens in socialist countries, not here.
Humana Is Being A Little Dramatic About Alex's Health
But, but Texas instituted tort reform. They must have cheap affordable health care now, since that's all that was needed according to a certain party.
/snark
Humana Is Being A Little Dramatic About Alex's Health
But that reduces the quality of your care because you can't be forthright about your condition...but we must make sure millionaires have enough for the maid in the Hamptons and at home.
Humana Is Being A Little Dramatic About Alex's Health
Not true. If you're really rich, you can get the best care in the world. The whole opposition to reform is based on that (disputed) fact. The rest of us must suffer as a result.
Humana Is Being A Little Dramatic About Alex's Health
Look at all those pre-existing conditions and excuses to retroactively deny coverage or jack up rates beyond belief.
From what I understand, I should NOT tell my doctor about any problems I'm having because it could potentially be used against me later to claim its a pre-existing condition (esp if I change providers) and use it to deny me coverage or inflate rates.
So what's the point of going to a doctor if you can't be honest about your condition because you're afraid of your future coverage?
But yes, if you're ultra-wealthy, you get the best care in the world. And that's what matters.
Rhode Island High School Fires All 88 Teachers
I couldn't disagree more. I volunteer in at underserved HS on the west side of Chicago. They have a 60% dropout rate. However, those teachers are the most dedicated hard working people I've met. They know each student, their story, and take the time to try to help them. They work harder than most office workers, and I'm willing to bet they work a hell of lot harder than most executives who make 10x-100x more than they do (and the teachers actually do something other than figure out how to make extremely rich people, even richer). Except one. A senior teacher there complains all the time that they should just put all the kids in jail rather and be done with with it. All the students complain about him. The problem is that they can't get rid of him, because he's senior.
Rhode Island High School Fires All 88 Teachers
This is one of the issues, where ther is no one single answer, but I think your comment is a large component.
I grew up in pretty good neighborhood. We had professionals and blue collar people who had "made it." Our houses were about the same sized and we drove similar cars, but the kids were where you could tell the difference. In the professional families, school/education was emphasized, grades were top priority, and it was already assumed you were going to college. In the blue collar families there was much less emphasis on that sort of thing and it showed when their kids brought home their report cards.
However, I think teachers play a large role in this process. In quasi-chemistry terms, I think parents create the right chemical (environmental) conditions while the teacher are the catalyst. If you don't have an effective teacher, you have all this potential energy that could go to waste unless theres another catalyst source. I'm finding myself more and more annoyed with teacher's unions seniority systems (time=paid more, not good teacher= paid more) and the out of market salary demands.
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Humana Is Being A Little Dramatic About Alex's Health
Texas is viewed as a model state by Republicans as their solution the health care issue. They have risk pools and tort reform and now everything is perfect there. Why are you a socialist?