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If anyone thinks payments to doctors are the problem in this healthcare equation, than they literally don't have a f-ing clue how this works.

If someone is using insurance, doctor's don't get to decide how much they get to charge a patient. That number is set by Medicare- i.e. the federal government. All insurance companies base their payment to doctors as a percentage of the medicare allowable. Sometimes it's a little higher than the Mediare allowable, but often times it is significantly less. Since 2001 physician payment from Medicare (and therefore insurance companies) has drop 29% when adjusted for inflation.

How many other industries are getting paid 29% less than they did 20 years ago?

It really just depends on the situation. Lens Replacement can be a good option and give good vision at all distances- depending on the type of implant used. However, those lenses work much better when they’re used in both eyes. If you only do one eye, you won’t get the full benefit. Doing one eye if like listening to surround sound and one of the speakers isn’t quite right.

Also, $6000 per eye if definitely a very high price for this surgery.

Christmas in Dixie

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Fat Harry's
The Boot
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Parkway Tavern
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Spider's Web

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Hope Joe drops 50 on the saints today. Coming from a lifelong Saints fan.

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If this is how you feel, you aren't a Saints fan.

Top Dog Academy

You played that Sporcle quiz this morning too, huh?

While I agree that these rules are overkill, the fact is, for the season at least, any player that is not vaccinated has a very good chance of being forced to miss extended time because of COVID exposure. This could happen more than once too.

I think the rules are ridiculous, but that's just the way it is right now.

It will be interesting to see what these coaches and schools do when they have to forfeit a game because they have too many unvaccinated kids get exposed and they are forced to quarantine making them unable to field a team. Depending on the timing they may be forced to forfeit two games.

I think the pressure for these players to get vaccinated is going to get turned up big time when this starts happening.

I believe that is the LHSAA protocol for someone who is not vaccinated.

For someone that is vaccinated, they do not have to quarantine unless they test positive themselves or become symptomatic.

Whether people like it or not, those are the rules.

Also, if a team can't play a game because they have too many players in quarantine, it doesn't get rescheduled. It is a forfeit.