Originally posted by rtwngAvngr
You evidently missed his point entirely. It's this : must everything in the public square be inoffensive to everybody? That's the point. If I worship wood and find it's use as construction material offensive, do i have the right to demand all buildings be rebuilt with a different material? You missed it.
Actually Dill may have meant your interpretation but in reality wooden idol gods are as offensive in public places as stone idol gods of Buddha are when they are also considered a transgression against G-d to walk or drive by a foreign idol god by others. No building need be rebuilt with other materials as you may consider things like wood to be made into furniture, use to cook your food, burned to warm your body, build your buildings and then to form into an icon symbol to worship. It is offensive to those who do not worship objects.
THe one that exists. Government creates the scarcity of doctors by forcing them to go to lots of extra school. And the elite docors of old were happy to have competition from those unable to afford education squashed. Most doctors specialize and end using only small portions of all the classes they took. What do you think of the the new p.a. degree? And what is it's purpose? Why was it developed?
So you want to be treated by poorly trained or substandard cheap healthcare doctors who are only trained to treat one part of you instead of understanding all that effects your physiology, anatomy and pathological combinations which allows for a differential diagnosis? What makes you think that doctors use only smalll portions of the classes they took? If you come to your doctor with a pain in your foot, your idea of doctor might miss that you have kidney disease (gouty arthritis), diabetes, heart disease or a tumor that has now metastisized to your foot. The physician assitant degree allows the doctor to concentrate on complex pathological disease while the P.A. takes a verbal history, blood pressure, heart rate, height, weight and put Iodine on scrapes.
Would you want a PA to remove your gallbladder or write you an rx for a functional adenoma of the adrenal medulla (Pheochromacytoma)? Why not just go to a PA with a massive heart attack. It is of course cheaper for the insurance company.
That's what happeneds when you demand such exorbitant fees that third party insurance companies must be involved. You should have worked with the people, instead of forcing them to mortgage their homes.
Fortunately for you, insurance companies set the fees that all contracted doctors MUST ACCEPT or be removed from the insurance company list of accepted doctors. For those without insurance, the person can always go to the local county hospitals were they may have to wait for some time before being seen by a doctor but at least it is free.
There was a time that physicians were allowed to make their own charges for the diagnosis and treatment of disease but that function has been taken over by the insurance industry entity.
Check out the income of the CEOs of the major health insurance companies. You will find that they earn about 20 million dollars a year plus around another 400 million in bonuses as they rip off the insured and those who provide care.
Young physicians fresh out of residencies must go to work for older established groups because the insurance companies do not need to add them to their approved lists of specialist doctors. No one would come to see them if they were solo practicitioners but in groups, they can work for a small salary and file under the older group's already being on insurance company lists.
More and more established physicians are quitting or retiring early because they were not trained to treat disease and people with instructions from a GED graduate insurance clerk who can approve or disaprove treatment necessary to maintain human life.
Like I said. You should've worked with the people, or learned more about business. Socialism destroys product quality and service in every sector, it's not suprising the elites come here.
In my days of full time practice I have treated people's diseases and not just their complaints. After this experience in practice I know the business aspect which is now controlled by forces outside of our control and which has been made into law by paid off government representatives.
So by all means get insured by a cheap HMO (Health Maintenance Organization Insurance Company.) The US Supreme Court, just lask week, upheld the employer ERISA laws (originally meant to protect employers from devasting employee health care costs) to now prevent HMOs from being sued by the forcing of doctors to deny or delay expensive doctor requestd care which ultimately results in death of the patient. The insurance company would rather have a dead expensive patient than a healthy live premium paying insured.
