Tried telling you......

[mutty]

Ain't no motherfucker alive who is good enough to be over $2000/hr for "looking"

What is the shoprate quoted in? Per hour or per minute?

[mar1t1me]

Ain't no motherfucker alive who is good enough to be over $2000/hr for "looking"

As someone whose skin cancer was caught early and cured whether that fee was exorbitant!

On the other hand, if Docs didn't have to worry about being sued for every little thing, their malpractice insurance premiums wouldn't be so high.

Here's an idea: rather than provide healthcare, how about have the gov't pay for the docs' overhead and have patients pay a much much lower cost? Insurance premiums could be vastly lowered. ;)

[Vedubin01]

As someone whose skin cancer was caught early and cured whether that fee was exorbitant!

On the other hand, if Docs didn't have to worry about being sued for every little thing, their malpractice insurance premiums wouldn't be so high.

Here's an idea: rather than provide healthcare, how about have the gov't pay for the docs' overhead and have patients pay a much much lower cost? Insurance premiums could be vastly lowered. ;)

I agree to an extent but how about the government follow the constitution and get out of peoples business.

[z31maniac]

As someone whose skin cancer was caught early and cured whether that fee was exorbitant!

On the other hand, if Docs didn't have to worry about being sued for every little thing, their malpractice insurance premiums wouldn't be so high.

Here's an idea: rather than provide healthcare, how about have the gov't pay for the docs' overhead and have patients pay a much much lower cost? Insurance premiums could be vastly lowered. ;)

Please tell me this is sarcastic.

[Wiglaf]

Because it was an incentive they could afford. Health care costs are going to sky rocket and they've crunched the numbers. It's cheaper for them to cancel a bunch of health insurance benefits and just pay the fine. Get this, it's a company's main focus to make money. Why? Because that's what a business is about. At the cost of everything else? No, of course not. Bad businesses go by the way side for a reason.

I personally think generosity should be a way more prevalent trend in our society. I definately believe that some of the Republican talk is a bit out of this world stupid when it comes to helping others. But, there's no way in hell the Government can mandate this or require us to use their system in which to give to those in need. And if you really think about it, this isn't about insuring 40 million uninsured as they've spoon fed people, it's about making money. The same motivation they've villiafied businesses for is exactly what they're after.

You missed the point i was getting at.

They could drop coverage this very day and not pay any penalty at all.

So now they are saying it would be cheaper to just pay the fine, no matter if the premiums go up or down. Isn't this the same as saying "we could save money by just not offering it at all?"

[Pinepig]

it will be Foooo time here shorty.

If you fo you never come back, you know what happened to SotD.:(

[ck_taft325is]

The baffling thing to me is that this bill does nothing to address the core issue: receiving medical care in the U.S. is RETARDED expensive. Example: I recently paid a visit to the skin doctor because skin cancer runs in the family. He took no more than 5 minutes to look me over, for which I was billed $180. That's $2160 per hour. I received no perscriptions or any sort of treatment whatsoever besides being LOOKED AT.

I don't show up to change a lightbulb at a clients house for less than $200.00 minimum. I have a 2 hour MINIMUM charge to make it worth my company's travel time, unload time, etc, etc... so, 5 minutes at a base rate of 1 hour minimum ='s $180.00 perhaps?