LOL wrote: We could send our high powered lobbyist negotiator Big Dookie to Wash DC to get a waiver for Park County.
I'll chip in a couple bucks for expenses.
I'll pay his way there if he promises to keep off the internet.
LOL wrote: We could send our high powered lobbyist negotiator Big Dookie to Wash DC to get a waiver for Park County.
I'll chip in a couple bucks for expenses.
I'll pay his way there if he promises to keep off the internet.
on that note wrote: Why does what county you live in matter to the rates that much?
It is because medicine is more expensive there?
Perhaps a private system of insurance would insure that the companies placed the costs where they belong, where medicine is more expensive and with the sick and old? Or gasp, just outlaw insurance for medicine and I bet all of a sudden the rates for medical procedures start to match what people can afford, like the rates for everything else not regulated to no end.
..."A telling example of this comes by way of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled this week that the state of Virginia may have violated the Constitution when it prohibited a doctor from opening shop simply to shield other businesses from competition.
Dr. Mark Baumel, a gastroenterologist, wants to buy CT scanners, which he will use to detect cancerous intestinal polyps in patients at three clinics that he proposes to build. Colorectal cancer claims the lives of over a thousand Virginians each year and is the second-leading cause of cancer death nationally. In large part, that’s because more than half of the people who should be getting screened are not.
It’s no mystery why. Traditional, invasive rectal inspections are more than mildly unpleasant and can cause infection and other complications. Dr. Baumel, however, proposes to conduct relatively cutting-edge “virtual colonoscopies,” eliminating the unpleasantness and minimizing health risks. Patients pay for a CT scan and, depending on the findings, can also opt for same-day polyp removal. (The procedure is recognized by the American Cancer Society and the American College of Gastroenterology.)"...
