Posted on 02/11/2018 6:14:54 AM PST by Zakeet
Excellent point!
Thank you. I had not thought of that.
That one dollar represents a huge billing contract to some politician..if you don’t charge the dollar, the contract goes away... which is the right thing to do...but no, we go on paying what must be millions of dollars so that someone, somewhere in our government can continue to milk the tax payer.
There doesn't seem to be a corresponding map that shows how much, if any, they pay in taxes, by state...
Your post shows that you are most definitely one of the smarter posters, IMO.
What exactly is wrong with literacy or IQ tests to vote?
They wouldn’t be able to manage Mecicare/Tricare Life with both it’s complicated systems then. Tricare is the worst as DoD MANDATES that part, scripts are complicated. Daily are Military Base or Express Scripts. With exception of Opioid scripts all are 90 days. Base will fill quick, refills come out of regions, mine is Pensacola takes 5 days so you reorder 5 days before you run out. Express Scripts takes 2-3 Weeks for a First Fill then 2 weeks for Refills Co-pays vary according to Meds. You need a spread sheet to keep track if there are 2 of you and you take several daily scripts. 1 Time Fills or ER ones can be gotten at any Pharmacy that takes Tricare Co-pays vary according to Med.
No doctor or hospital co-pays though. But it comes with a lot of test, treatment restrictions or denials. Nerve blocks are limited to 3 a year, Bone Density, PSA every 2 yrs, Upper Endoscopes went to every 3 yrs for a health condition. Rehab is 13 weeks to bad if you are not fully Rehabbed from surgery.
This is about deep state crony capitalism. The real payoff, the real growth the wealth that buys mansions in McClean VA and Potomac Md. and Cheasapeake waterfront estates and gentlemen's horse farms in the VA countryside are private entities feeding off of government created "hold-up" problems in the sense of Rhine Barons.
Most of the billing is done not by federal or state workers but by private contractors. When Health Care just grew from 1/6th to 1/5th of GDP who was hired: doctors and nurses? They already had full employment. No, the private arm of the administrative state.
Ya gotta follow the money, every single time. Federal salaries for administrative staff are not actually that generous, and a lot of those services in DC are contracted out to those who can pay living wages.
The real bonanza is being a principal on one of those contracts (owner or CEO or VP of the contracting company, not one of the legions of modestly paid "workers")
Or the legions of well connected “political advisors (usually lawyers)” who move from one top level (appointed) government job to Beltway Legal/PR firm job to appointed government job and back. Thy all protect & look out for each other, it doesn’t matter the administration.
As someone who asks poor people their name (and doesn’t always get an answer) every night of the week, this doesn’t surprise me a bit.
Yes, that is part of the payoff to keep the whole crony capitalist enterprise going. But who are the big beneficiaries. In health care who are the Soroses, Rockefellers, Rothschild’s.
Fine. Kick them off.
Stop all government freebies to non-citizens and they’ll have to go back where they came from.
But they VOTE!!!
Okay, that makes sense. I understand more clearly what you meant.
One could come up with reasons why they want to make it difficult for people to pay their fines, but it’s probably just incompetence.
I pay my specialist eye doctor twenty bucks a month (a sum established two or three years ago because of dire straights) and I receive bills that make no sense, but the bottom line amount goes down proportionately.
The Doc can't cut any more out'a me so all I have now are semi annual check ups at (now) forty bucks a co-pay.
You can figure it out right? Medical billing is not like a credit card.
Feel the cynicism, let it flow through you...
I hadn’t thought of that... on the one hand, its only one or two politicians pet project, but there are many pet projects and many politicians, local, state, and Federal.
Best comment period. That is what we want. Get these illegals out of America and OFF our DIME.
There is also a certain clientele that becomes enraged when asked to pay a dime for anything.
They are entitled, rude, and nasty.
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