Posted on 11/05/2013 6:29:59 PM PST by Domestic Church
I do admit Galt is a protest having done as much myself 5 years ago but Bozo don’t care. In fact it is win-win for him.
Who cares if bozo cares? Not everything is about him.
They. Ant tKe my money if I make no money.
You don’t have to make it, you just have to have it. When they keep on printing money, they are stealing the value of any money you have.
i’ve been living in 30s germany since dhs was created and tsa became ‘officers’.
They can make the money in your wallet worth less than it was an hour ago. In that hour they add $87 Billion a month to the coffers of the Feral Gummint. I repeat. They don’t need to take your money to take your money.
With the Fed printing phony money they don’t have to actually take your money to take your money...
That is the Truth.
But I suspect that money will not be worth much in the near future. Survival skills and supplies and the proper attitude to survive will be what is needed most.
“I think the next “big” group to “quit” will be scores of doctors.”
In our area, many MDs started opting out this year. Both newer docs and established docs.
New MDs faced with the math of how to keep their offices open, pay the salaries for their staff, pay off their med school debts and have a decent life style have gone to Kaiser.
Many MDs in their 40’s to 50’s have gone to concierge medicine or will be in it as of 1 Jan 2014. In their new life, there will be no insurance acceptance nor billing. Flat yearly fees in advance for a year or quarterly. The average yearly fees are running from $2400 per year to $3600.
One new concierge doc in this area, a woman has apparently filled her new 2014 concierge practice and is charging $2,000 per month. We have been hearing about similar yearly costs in the Stanford area, Silicon Valley, high rent areas like the Gay Frisco Area, marvelous Marin and East Bay.
Some, older MDs, just said to heck with it and have closed their offices or will be ending their practices this month. Many of those leaving the area, have taken advantage of the recent surges in the prices of homes in this area and sold their homes. Then, they left the area with few people, if anyone knowing that they had moved and left the area.
The impact of the docs who have left and those who will be leaving between now and 1 Jan 2014 is unknown.
A two man practice with a full time FP, a senior part time FP, and a full time PA, closed this summer. This practice had a little over 6000 active patients. Active = patients seen in the last year.
The long time RN and receptionist from that office are still running into people complaining that they can’t phone the office to get an appt.. Apparently, those people didn’t read the two letters they got re the practice being closed, one letter from the two docs & PA and one from their group. This area goes through an epidemic of wellness from July until about now. So the impact of the two docs no longer there will be get more severe each day from now on until next summer.
Thanks for this thread. I just bought one of these (PULLERBEAR Pulls-All) to fight honeysuckle that is invading my land.
http://www.pullerbear.com/compare.html
It’ll be a lot more Oktober revolution than that.
Half of America will cheer too, for a short time. Until reality sinks in. A lot like Russia 1917.
Oooohoooo! Thank you for posting about the pullerbear! Please let me know how you like it. I hope the full welds can hold up to the job! I may just have to get one of these for my birthday or for a Christmas gift. We have a honeysuckle hedgerow but I would probably be using it mostly for all the baby trees and mulberries that pop up. I wonder if it will work on a japanese quince that is becoming invasive.
“When the time comes, the noose will tighten so quickly, 1935 will become 1938 in about 3 weeks.”
Yes,so maybe we all need to think old school and start raising pigeons and doves to send correspondence and be prepared to barter.
My wife’s brother-in-law changed to cash (no insurance) a couple of years ago. His wife, who is a nurse, staffs the office....that’s his entire office. He accepts no insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, etc., only cash, check or credit card. He issues detailed receipts which patients may send to the appropriate place for reimbursement at whatever rates they pay.
He has reduced the rates charged by 50% or more and is making more money. Recently he went into semi-retirement and still makes more than he did before the converted over.
You don’t show for or call in advance to cancel appointments you risk being dropped as a patient (a significant problem with Medicaid & Medicare patients which is why most doctors double or triple book).
I will be emailing your reply to a couple of Docs who have retired or will be.
They could be really bored after Christmas.
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