Impeding changes to our Health Care system - Page 41

classicman · 09-04-2009, 10:41 AM

Trauma reimbursement is set up on a "per diem" basis. The hospital charges for each thing independently. Nursing staff, medication, supplies.... The total could be somewhere in the $1,000,000 range for three weeks. However, the hospital has a "deal" with the insurance company, so they only pay out about $66,000. The hospital writes off the rest. . . or so I've heard.

TheMercenary · 09-04-2009, 10:44 AM

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The hospital writes off the rest. . .

Translated: Charges everyone else for the difference.

xoxoxoBruce · 09-05-2009, 01:57 AM

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More than one of every five requests for medical claims for insured patients, even when recommended by a patient's physician, are rejected by California's largest private insurers, amounting to very real death panels in practice daily in the nation's biggest state, according to data released today by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee.

CNA/NNOC researchers analyzed data reported by the insurers to the California Department of Managed Care. From 2002 through June 30, 2009, the six largest insurers operating in California rejected 31.2 million claims for care - 21 percent of all claims.

Reuters

Kitsune · 09-05-2009, 03:24 PM

Franken, of all people, actually manages to calm a mob of tea baggers and encourage rational discussion.

TheMercenary · 09-06-2009, 05:58 AM

Maybe it is just his comedic wit. Maybe he passed out pictures of him in a diaper.

xoxoxoBruce · 09-06-2009, 11:24 AM

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Maybe it is just his comedic wit. Maybe he passed out pictures of him in a diaper.

You mean those phony photoshoped photos you keep posting?

TheMercenary · 09-07-2009, 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

You mean those phony photoshoped photos you keep posting?

No, the ones of him when he did the skit on SNL.

09-07-2009, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

No, the ones of him when he did the skit on SNL.

The photo is a fake..

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One of numerous retractions....

"Last week I posted a blog about comedian Al Franken joining the Senate (here), including a picture of Franken wearing bunny ears and a diaper.

Franken did many things on Saturday Night Live that could be embarrassing to a Senator. But apparently, that was not one of them. It turns out the picture was photoshopped.

We don’t knowingly run false pictures, so I took it down and replaced it with another goofy picture of Sen. Franken…"

http://www.regrettheerror.com/?tag=cincinnati-enquirer

...but no surprise that gullible morons like you believe it because it fits your agenda.

But still not as ignorant as your Hitler/Nazi references to another member of Congress.

One can only wonder how low you are willing to sink to perpetuate bullshit that you find on the net in you never ending quest to slime those with whom you disagree politically.

TheMercenary · 09-07-2009, 08:04 AM

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But still not as ignorant as your Hitler/Nazi comparisons to another member of Congress.

One can only wonder how low you are willing to sink to make a point.

Would that include the Hitler/Nazi comparisons made by Pelosi and other members of the Demoncratic Congress? Or do you give them a pass like you do for most of the double standards?

classicman · 09-06-2009, 07:07 AM

Nice.

09-07-2009, 08:11 AM

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Thank Frigging God for small things. Maybe we can all have a favor and she will get hit by a bus.

Another mature response rather than to own up to your own ignorant posts.

TheMercenary · 09-07-2009, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Redux

Another mature response rather than to own up to your own ignorant posts.

I am crushed by your opinions, on anything. Well not really.

09-07-2009, 08:16 AM

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I am crushed by your opinions, on anything. Well not really.

I expect nothing more from you.

Hey, I know you dont let the facts, not my opinion, get in the way of your agenda.....the Franken fake pic is just the latest example.

TheMercenary · 09-07-2009, 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Redux

I expect nothing more from you.

Hey, I know you dont let the facts, not my opinion, get in the way of your agenda.....the Franken fake pic is just the latest example.

It is still pretty funny.

09-07-2009, 08:18 AM

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It is still pretty funny.

Only to morons who need an excuse to avoid manning up to the fact that it was fake

09-04-2009, 10:41 AM	#1
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Trauma reimbursement is set up on a "per diem" basis. The hospital charges for each thing independently. Nursing staff, medication, supplies.... The total could be somewhere in the $1,000,000 range for three weeks. However, the hospital has a "deal" with the insurance company, so they only pay out about $66,000. The hospital writes off the rest. . . or so I've heard. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

09-06-2009, 05:58 AM	#5
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Maybe it is just his comedic wit. Maybe he passed out pictures of him in a diaper. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

09-06-2009, 07:07 AM	#10
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Nice. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

09-05-2009, 03:24 PM	#4
Kitsune still eats dirt Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 3,031	Franken, of all people, actually manages to calm a mob of tea baggers and encourage rational discussion.

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