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New York, NY - State Bureaucrats Fight Doctor's $79 Flat Fee for Uninsured
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| 3/22/09
| anon
Posted on 03/21/2009 11:43:25 PM PDT by genghis
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Stop him before he saves someone's life. Regulators as usual, not behaving in the public's interest.
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posted on
03/21/2009 11:43:26 PM PDT
by
genghis
To: genghis
Exactly - they realize that such a plan would destroy their power and then the bureaucrats would be out of a job.
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posted on
03/21/2009 11:44:43 PM PDT
by
ikka
(Brother, you asked for it!)
To: genghis
And such regulators are interfering with the free market and a businessman’s ability to set his own fees. This is exactly the kind of price competition American medicine needs desperately. How the hell did we get to this place in America?
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posted on
03/21/2009 11:47:24 PM PDT
by
Bernard Marx
(Free California from public employee union rule!)
To: genghis
Government bureaucrats hate the free market and innovation. Especially if it provides uninsured people like yours truly with affordable health care. They have to intervene to put a stop to it!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
03/21/2009 11:47:40 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: genghis
Here is a man that is honestly trying to help and has a wonderful idea; and who else; but our crooked government doesn’t like it.
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posted on
03/21/2009 11:50:42 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: ikka
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posted on
03/21/2009 11:51:17 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: genghis
He’s right. This isn’t insurance. Not even close.
Government officials are becoming more unhinged by the minute. Obama Effect for sure.
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posted on
03/21/2009 11:51:56 PM PDT
by
Wiseghy
("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
To: Bernard Marx
What's funny is they want him to charge his patients MORE! Doesn't that defeat the entire purpose of making health care affordable to more people by lowering the cost of it? Only the government could see something amiss with good old fashioned common sense. I haven't seen a patient complain about the doctor's fixed rate plan!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
03/21/2009 11:52:39 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: genghis
If they’re that worried about illegal insurance rackets, they should go after Big Mike, who offers pizzeria owners a great deal on fire insurance. A thousand a month guarantees that their businesses won’t burn down.
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posted on
03/21/2009 11:54:40 PM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(What's Black and White and Red all over?)
To: genghis
“That’s something only a licensed insurance company can do.”
Name one insurance company worker that ever graduated medical school.
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posted on
03/21/2009 11:54:59 PM PDT
by
NoLibZone
(To save our nation a Strongly Worded e-mail may be in order.)
To: genghis
...runs afoul of the law because it promises to cover unplanned procedures - like treating a sudden ear infection - under a fixed rate. That's something only a licensed insurance company can do... Why is there a law that prevents this doctor from doing this? Who is it designed to protect? The doctors? Patients? Or the insurance companies?
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posted on
03/21/2009 11:56:15 PM PDT
by
jeffc
(They're coming to take me away! Ha-ha, hey-hey, ho-ho!)
To: NoLibZone
You mean the state is protecting the insurance company monopoly? No wonder they can't allow a precedent to be set. It might give people dangerous ideas and then the entire system will come tumbling down!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
03/21/2009 11:58:05 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: genghis
A classic example of government, once again, blocking the benefit of it's citizenry. I saw an interesting quote yesterday...
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. - Thomas Jefferson
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posted on
03/21/2009 11:58:30 PM PDT
by
highlander_UW
(The only difference between the MSM and the DNC is the MSM sells ad space in their propaganda)
To: genghis
Hero doctor versus sub-human democrat party power mad cockroachs.
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posted on
03/21/2009 11:59:57 PM PDT
by
FormerACLUmember
(When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
To: jeffc
The insurance companies, I bet. The law wasn't written to protect doctors or the interests of patients. That's why health care costs are so high. No one has an incentive to seek good quality care at the lowest possible price because an insurance company pays the entire bill.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
03/22/2009 12:00:47 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: genghis
Boy those are dumb bureaucrats. An insurance company is regulated because it promises to late pay for something for you that it does not have. This MD in fact is an MD, so he certainly can provide care.
It is the MD’s business how he prices his services. He can in fact deliver these services. Thus he is not insuring patients, he is merely selling his services using a two part pricing scheme.
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posted on
03/22/2009 12:12:01 AM PDT
by
JLS
To: genghis; John Semmens
Are you sure this wasn’t written by John Semmens....
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posted on
03/22/2009 12:18:43 AM PDT
by
aquila48
To: JLS
I'd love to see the law that forbids him from setting pricing for his own services and making his own payment arrangements with his patients for those services rendered. Who is harmed here? Certainly not the State Of New York!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
03/22/2009 12:20:08 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: genghis
The government has gotten too big for their own good.. The longer they go unwatched, the further they put their finger into every aspect of a civilian's life they can. There is no stopping it
bookmark.
To: goldstategop
Right and again the key difference is an insurance company is not offering medical services, it is promising to pay for your use of them. This MD is in fact promising to deliver these services. That is what makes it not insurance.
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posted on
03/22/2009 12:28:39 AM PDT
by
JLS
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