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Losing workplace coverage is good.

Continuing insurance payments is bad, however.

3rd party payments misallocate resources badly, and are responsible for why you "need" insurance in the first place.

Go back to a cash medical business model.

No doctor can stay in business charging more than people can afford to pay.

It worked for a couple hundred years.

#1 rhhardin (Link) on 2012-03-16 06:54 (Reply)

Can't work anymore in an era of $2000 MRIs and million dollar cancer treatments, and $3000/night hospital stays.

#1.1 BD on 2012-03-16 07:40 (Reply)

Or $111,000 for placing a stent in my right coronary artery and one nights stay in the cardiac care center ten years ago.

The thing is, for routine doctor visits, I can see the pay as you go model working just fine. The problem starts with how and why doctors cover their butts against lawsuits. I know my daughter's practice has a ridiculous insurance bill her, the two PA's and the NP she has in her practice. I'm not sure she would want me to tell what it is, but lets' just say it's a fairly substantial sum of money.

#1.1.1 Tom Francis on 2012-03-16 08:39 (Reply)

Those prices come from third party payments.

#2 rhhardin (Link) on 2012-03-16 07:55 (Reply)

Experience with animal care leads me to believe rhhardin is right.

Without insurance you would reduce demand for the product. Prices would come down. A lot.

#2.1 feeblemind on 2012-03-16 10:17 (Reply)

Catostrophic care insurance. Medical savings accounts. Improved Internet access to the best Practitioners in specific categories; i.e. results for dollars/wellness involved.

I just spent three hours (since 4 am) talking a neighbor through the idiocy of being advised by e-mail that she had stage 4 cancer. This from a major medical center that had been mis-diagnosing her since December. This morning, I will try to help her wander through her choices, but, seriously, that provider is NOT going to be in the loop.

#3 jma on 2012-03-16 07:57 (Reply)

All your little farm children are belong to us!

Nerf gateway guns, can't drive tractors/trucks/combines, gotta eat certain foods in school - what the hell is wrong with these people?

#4 Tom Francis on 2012-03-16 09:30 (Reply)

It wasn't enough that they stole 120,000 family farms a year for the twelve years between Reagan/Clinton, now they have to guaran-G-D-tee that the family farm will go under! They have to make absolutely certain that the farmer (white) must hire illegal mesicans! You know the ones that the unons registered at the border! What they really must have is total union control over every form of labor that used to generate wealth for the individual. What they are absolutely terrified of is this--white strength! They cannot tolerate farmers passing down farms to more white generations! Whatever family farms are left--they covet those also! Most particularly what they want this year is obedience from the congressional delegations from farm states! How clear can they make that? You know the states that probably will not vote for the little o again!

#4.1 another one on 2012-03-16 10:30 (Reply)

Don't worry, they are providing kids with an alternative pastime and trade.

In Canada, they are training 7th graders in oral skills. Notice, they are very explicit on the techniques and skills but a bit short on concepts. The exact opposite of the new reform math, which teaches concepts and not skills. I guess somethings it is more important you do right than understand the moral, psychological and sociological concepts.

#4.2 JKB on 2012-03-16 11:51 (Reply)

re Department of Labor: All your little farm children are belong to us!

Should this come to pass, how will they enforce it?

My guess is that it is an edict that would be largely ignored in rural America.

#5 feeblemind on 2012-03-16 10:48 (Reply)

Just this morning I was thinking about severely weakened our children in this wild mountain state have become during the last 20 years. The years since the liberals moved in from CA and WA and took over the schools. Watching the local news I saw that they were making an announcement: there is definitely a virus going around so we have closed schools today (Friday of course makes for a 3 day holiday for the unionistas). Of course, those of us who are asked to volunteer to tutor students during the rest of the school year have been coaxed into donating more and more hours of our time "because the teachers can't get through the coursework this year. We've had so many SNOW days". The problem being of course that this year we have hardly had any snow at all. There simply has been nothing that stayed on the ground! When I was kid we had much more snow (check with your global warming person) and also we never heard of a snow day. We slogged through the snow and got on the dang bus. . . But, of course our teachers did not have a union to lie for them. The bottom line of course is that walking through those cold days and dealing with the weather taught us many important lessons, today's children do not get.

#6 apple pie on 2012-03-16 14:16 (Reply)

Loved the Marilyn Hagerty story. Nice to see something pleasant.
Thanks

#7 Mark on 2012-03-16 21:44 (Reply)

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Friday, March 16. 2012

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