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Posted on 2/20/20 at 12:47 am to Hopeful Doc
quote:... and I'd reckon a damn good doc to boot.
When someone smokes $200 of cigarettes a month and won't pay $150 per month for an inhaler, I don't feel bad for them. At all. Maybe I'm a bad person or doctor for that, but I don't. But when a parent won't/can't spend $150/m on an inhaler that their kid needs because they have crappy insurance, it's the one set of drugs I actually have a hard time finding a cheap alternative for and have never really found a good patient assistance program. And it makes me sad. I include this rant in case someone out there knows what I'm missing. I doubt it. But, hey, I'm a hopeful guy.
Posted on 2/20/20 at 12:52 am to Taxing Authority
We see this every single day.
Avg BMI since I have started my career has skyrocketed.
Same for HTN. Same for rates of DM.
It is crushing. And I'm in an acute field. Those poor guys like hopeful, in a primary field.... yikes.
We can start a whole new thread on the destruction of medicine by lesser trained, lesser educated "providers" too....
Don't get me started on the state of medicine in our nation. Socialization is a bigger step backwards than anyone would realize.
Avg BMI since I have started my career has skyrocketed.
Same for HTN. Same for rates of DM.
It is crushing. And I'm in an acute field. Those poor guys like hopeful, in a primary field.... yikes.
We can start a whole new thread on the destruction of medicine by lesser trained, lesser educated "providers" too....
Don't get me started on the state of medicine in our nation. Socialization is a bigger step backwards than anyone would realize.
Posted on 2/20/20 at 12:52 am to SiloamHog
quote:Again, if you don't want to spend your money--don't. What you want is to keep your own wealth, but take from others to pay your personal bills. The epitome of selfishness and greed. And you want to use the power (and threat) of government to do it. The epitome of cruelty and violence.
Just like we do today with a $20,000 price tag and a bankruptcy lawyers card
Don't you dare lecture anyone on virtua.
This post was edited on 2/20/20 at 12:53 am
Posted on 2/20/20 at 12:52 am to Apollyon
quote:
But wrong.
In your opinion. As I said in my first post, it is my opinion that the words, "will provide for the general welfare of the public" could be read as a mandate to provide medical care. In my opinion.
And again, I am fully aware most conservatives wouldn't agree with that assessment. It is what it is.
However, I also believe that we could potentially set up a system that results in both better care and an overall net positive in cost to everyone. But without some radical changes, that isn't likely to happen any time soon.
I figure we are about 20 years out from seeing a medical revolution. Hopefully we are all still around to see it.
Posted on 2/20/20 at 12:52 am to Apollyon
quote:
Anesthesia
A much smarter man than I...
If you don't know who Physician on FIRE is, his website is worth a glance. He was one of your kind who put his ducks in a row early on and retired at 43. Just a neat story in general. Worked his arse off early, bought into a surgery center that failed, lost his arse on a big house related to that venture, gets real frugal, hits financial independence, gives up crappy shifts/call for the most part, coasts into full retirement and now travels the world with school age children because he's managed to pile up around 40x his annual expenditures and generates enough traffic on that site to probably pay most of his bills if he didn't have that nest egg.
Posted on 2/20/20 at 12:54 am to Apollyon
quote:Rights do not equal means.
Also, citizens (me) provide your healthcare. It is my profession. And no, you have no free "right" to my labor.
If so the government owes me a printing press, a church, and guns.
Posted on 2/20/20 at 12:54 am to Hopeful Doc
That guy is amazing.
I also like "whitecoat investor"
I also like "whitecoat investor"
Posted on 2/20/20 at 12:55 am to Taxing Authority
quote:
Rights do not equal means.
If so the government owes me a printing press, a church, and guns.
Rights can only be exercised personally, not through enforced labor on another's behalf.
Enforced labor is slavery.
Posted on 2/20/20 at 12:56 am to Apollyon
He's the best
Posted on 2/20/20 at 12:57 am to Apollyon
quote:No doubt. Not a physician, but several in the family. I worry about their futures.
We can start a whole new thread on the destruction of medicine by lesser trained, lesser educated "providers" too....
Physicians need to get in front of the whole secondary practitioners. We all lose if MDs lose their professionalism like engineers and lawyers have.
Posted on 2/20/20 at 1:01 am to Apollyon
quote:What's amazing to me is you have people... that wouldn't even think of walking on a restaurant check... feel it's perfectly fine to not pay their doctors. They just feel like they shouldn'nt have to pay for it. It should just be "free".
Don't get me started on the state of medicine in our nation. Socialization is a bigger step backwards than anyone would realize.
Posted on 2/20/20 at 1:02 am to Taxing Authority
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Posted on 2/20/20 at 1:02 am to Taxing Authority
What about other things payed by "socialized" programs like the Interstate System? frick those roads, go to Lowe's and buy some asphalt...make you're own road. Why do my tax dollars have to pay for your road?
Posted on 2/20/20 at 1:03 am to SiloamHog
I have worked in some of the countries Bernie sees as utopia, and thinks the U.S. to emulate. For some reason most citizens in those places that can afford to do so will pay for private healthcare whenever possible in lieu of the government provided care.
Posted on 2/20/20 at 1:04 am to EA6B
Which countries?
Posted on 2/20/20 at 1:05 am to SiloamHog
How stupid of you
Posted on 2/20/20 at 1:06 am to gthog61
Indeed
Posted on 2/20/20 at 1:10 am to SiloamHog
I work within a system teetering on the brink.
You are wrong. So wrong. Complete takeover government involvement will destroy it completely.
You are wrong. So wrong. Complete takeover government involvement will destroy it completely.
This post was edited on 2/20/20 at 1:11 am
Posted on 2/20/20 at 1:10 am to SiloamHog
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