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BHO forgot this part of the article, apparently…
Last I checked, we live in New York, correct?
Oct. 6 (Bloomberg)
New York’s vacancy rate fell to 2.9 percent in the third quarter from 3 percent in the second, as the end of summer brought an influx of tenants signing leases, Reis said.
dittoburg,
allow me to explain. the government option acts like a virus in undermining the private sector for a few simple reasons.
-first the government has the unlimited resources of the government and it’s apparent lack of accountability as demonstrated by the impending insolvency of Medicare and the bail out of Medicaid in NY state and California to name two examples.
-lack of accountability for efficiency leads to the ability of the government plan to decrease costs at the expense of taxpayers. decreasing cost leads to unreasonable competition with private plans who may be well run and efficient but cannot decrease cost below a bottom line which apparently the governemnt has no qualms about doing.
– dont believe me? ask any doctor who sets their fee structure. they will answer Medicare. They set fees yearly for everything from blood drawing to open reduction of a femoral fracture to delivering a baby (and the current rate given for doctors to deliver a baby is about $900) ask your neighborhood ob/gyn how many deliveries he has to make to cover 120,000 in malpractice insurance.
medicare sets the fees because the insurance companies link their reimbursement schedules to medicare set rates, sometimes at a percentage of the going medicare rate (like 80%). This is a newer development over the past 20 years.
you may ask why doctor’s have to accept these rates? the large majority do because they cannot make a living without accepting medicare. (remember most doctors graduate in their 30’s with crushing debt and new expenses like malpractice, rent, food, family, practice fees, etc.)
so, understanding how Medicare sets fees, it is not a large leap to understand how the governement will set the premiums for private healthcare insurances until they go out of business.
BHO, you seeing rents drop alot in the prime hoods recently? regardless of where they dropped from, the current prices still look pretty expensive compared to what I pay on maintenance at my place. do see prices dropping in non-prime hoods – ie could’ve rented out my crown heights place for ~$2k-2.2k a yr ago but my dilly dally ass didn’t do anything with it and now staring at rent dropped to ~1500-1700
Legion, when my dad was dying of cancer my family was frantically trying to move money around so that he and my mother would not lose all their money in order to get him care.
I know Americans are first in charitable giving, but I think as a country we have truly lost the sense of compassion for our fellows and everything i see in the political arena just reinforces that feeling for me.
BHO forgot this part of the article, apparently…
Last I checked, we live in New York, correct?
Oct. 6 (Bloomberg)
New York’s vacancy rate fell to 2.9 percent in the third quarter from 3 percent in the second, as the end of summer brought an influx of tenants signing leases, Reis said.
Lechacal, I would need pic’s to believe you – along with you swearing to it.
bxgrl, my parents did the same thing when we knew my grandmother was going into a nursing home.
dittoburg,
allow me to explain. the government option acts like a virus in undermining the private sector for a few simple reasons.
-first the government has the unlimited resources of the government and it’s apparent lack of accountability as demonstrated by the impending insolvency of Medicare and the bail out of Medicaid in NY state and California to name two examples.
-lack of accountability for efficiency leads to the ability of the government plan to decrease costs at the expense of taxpayers. decreasing cost leads to unreasonable competition with private plans who may be well run and efficient but cannot decrease cost below a bottom line which apparently the governemnt has no qualms about doing.
– dont believe me? ask any doctor who sets their fee structure. they will answer Medicare. They set fees yearly for everything from blood drawing to open reduction of a femoral fracture to delivering a baby (and the current rate given for doctors to deliver a baby is about $900) ask your neighborhood ob/gyn how many deliveries he has to make to cover 120,000 in malpractice insurance.
medicare sets the fees because the insurance companies link their reimbursement schedules to medicare set rates, sometimes at a percentage of the going medicare rate (like 80%). This is a newer development over the past 20 years.
you may ask why doctor’s have to accept these rates? the large majority do because they cannot make a living without accepting medicare. (remember most doctors graduate in their 30’s with crushing debt and new expenses like malpractice, rent, food, family, practice fees, etc.)
so, understanding how Medicare sets fees, it is not a large leap to understand how the governement will set the premiums for private healthcare insurances until they go out of business.
BHO, you seeing rents drop alot in the prime hoods recently? regardless of where they dropped from, the current prices still look pretty expensive compared to what I pay on maintenance at my place. do see prices dropping in non-prime hoods – ie could’ve rented out my crown heights place for ~$2k-2.2k a yr ago but my dilly dally ass didn’t do anything with it and now staring at rent dropped to ~1500-1700
Legion, when my dad was dying of cancer my family was frantically trying to move money around so that he and my mother would not lose all their money in order to get him care.
I know Americans are first in charitable giving, but I think as a country we have truly lost the sense of compassion for our fellows and everything i see in the political arena just reinforces that feeling for me.
We’ll ask the strippers if they have health insurance.
And I asked if I can tag along.
The What and I are going to a strip club together in the near future.