Brooklyn Life Open Thread by Gabby 06/03/2011 283 Share Share Brooklyn Life Brooklyn Life Open Thread What's Your Take? Leave a Comment Leave a Reply Cancel reply Register to leave a comment, or log in if you already have an account how’s this pete: le$$ Log in to Reply ” incentivize less doctor visits, ” — fewer, please. Am sure modern grammar allows ‘less’ but it still sounds like nails on blackboard to me. Log in to Reply “So legion, what was the cause for huge health care cost increases over the previous 20 years?” -increased costs associated with a litigous society (defensive medicine) -restrictions on interstate insurance competition. -increased malpractice insurance costs. -doctors needing to prescribe the latest and greatest when good ol’ aspirin and rest would do. -inefficiency of practice and implementation, massive bureaucratic costs -costly government mandates like HIPPA -redundency of care(especially in entitlement-based health care policies). …just to name a few. Log in to Reply Wow, they are going to roll out the new site today/this weekend. Seems like a big mistake to me. Log in to Reply ew the moonfaces have even invaded Damascus? that’s just fucked up *rob* Log in to Reply yes- if want to buy an old person to leave you inheritance—-the closer they are to death’s door – the more you gotta pay. Log in to Reply Biff, if you are going to buy one, make sure they’re Canadian because then you don’t have to pay the health insurance on them. Log in to Reply anyone who listens to 1010 WINS and always wonders what’s up the the David Lerner Associates commercials that talk about the ‘safe middle grouind of investing’ needs to see the REIT article on the front of the NYT biz section today. Log in to Reply “Older people get — more they need the insurance…bigger the claims and more and more expensive to buy.” Older people are more expensive to buy? Log in to Reply < 1 2 3 4 5 … 31 >
” incentivize less doctor visits, ” — fewer, please. Am sure modern grammar allows ‘less’ but it still sounds like nails on blackboard to me. Log in to Reply
“So legion, what was the cause for huge health care cost increases over the previous 20 years?” -increased costs associated with a litigous society (defensive medicine) -restrictions on interstate insurance competition. -increased malpractice insurance costs. -doctors needing to prescribe the latest and greatest when good ol’ aspirin and rest would do. -inefficiency of practice and implementation, massive bureaucratic costs -costly government mandates like HIPPA -redundency of care(especially in entitlement-based health care policies). …just to name a few. Log in to Reply
Wow, they are going to roll out the new site today/this weekend. Seems like a big mistake to me. Log in to Reply
yes- if want to buy an old person to leave you inheritance—-the closer they are to death’s door – the more you gotta pay. Log in to Reply
Biff, if you are going to buy one, make sure they’re Canadian because then you don’t have to pay the health insurance on them. Log in to Reply
anyone who listens to 1010 WINS and always wonders what’s up the the David Lerner Associates commercials that talk about the ‘safe middle grouind of investing’ needs to see the REIT article on the front of the NYT biz section today. Log in to Reply
“Older people get — more they need the insurance…bigger the claims and more and more expensive to buy.” Older people are more expensive to buy? Log in to Reply
how’s this pete:
le$$
” incentivize less doctor visits, ” — fewer, please. Am sure modern grammar allows ‘less’ but it still sounds like nails on blackboard to me.
“So legion, what was the cause for huge health care cost increases over the previous 20 years?”
-increased costs associated with a litigous society (defensive medicine)
-restrictions on interstate insurance competition.
-increased malpractice insurance costs.
-doctors needing to prescribe the latest and greatest when good ol’ aspirin and rest would do.
-inefficiency of practice and implementation,
massive bureaucratic costs
-costly government mandates like HIPPA
-redundency of care(especially in entitlement-based health care policies).
…just to name a few.
Wow, they are going to roll out the new site today/this weekend.
Seems like a big mistake to me.
ew the moonfaces have even invaded Damascus? that’s just fucked up
*rob*
yes- if want to buy an old person to leave you inheritance—-the closer they are to death’s door – the more you gotta pay.
Biff, if you are going to buy one, make sure they’re Canadian because then you don’t have to pay the health insurance on them.
anyone who listens to 1010 WINS and always wonders what’s up the the David Lerner Associates commercials that talk about the ‘safe middle grouind of investing’ needs to see the REIT article on the front of the NYT biz section today.
“Older people get — more they need the insurance…bigger the claims and more and more expensive to buy.”
Older people are more expensive to buy?