Hi. My name is... Robert Smith

Posted by Boborobdos 12 years ago to The Gulch: Introductions
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I'm very happy to have landed in the Gulch... I hope to get some insights for when I watch and discuss the movie.

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  • Posted by Rozar 12 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Now Doctors will be subjugated to people who don't understand what's wrong with them. Now doctors have an incentive to make a patient "feel" good so they don't get a poor review.
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  • Posted by Boborobdos 12 years ago in reply to this comment.
    From the article: "The standards include "process measures," such as the percentage of patients receiving an antibiotic within an hour of surgery, and patient satisfaction measures, including how well a doctor communicates with a patient."

    Seems to me patient care is considered.

    Rob
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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 12 years ago in reply to this comment.
    The threshold for the award is not the quality of health care, but the lowest cost per patient.

    Hardly a formula for getting the best care.
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years ago in reply to this comment.
    paying for your own birth control is how a woman decides for themselves. Huh, after a quick perusal of government salaries, I would say they are also deciding who picks up their laundry.
    I worry about bureaucracy, shortages with price controls and long waits for care. I have half a dozen canadian aunts and when two of them were diagnosed with cancer, well, let's just say the waits for specialists and then for treatment were nails in their own coffins. I live outside the country, and many canadians flock outside the country (those especially in unions) to get quicker access to care.
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years ago in reply to this comment.
    inherently, the government is at fault. There should be no way those banks should have been able to lobby for a law against one company's IP. If the government stayed within the rule of law, that would have never happened. JP Morgan, PNC Bank, Groupe Ignacio, US Bank, Viewpointe all acknowledged taht Data Treasury's patents were valid. Court after court ruled in their favor. The companies were estopped from having to pay out the penalties. They went from over 100 employees to next to none. They were an operating company with contracts before their patents were stolen. With over 10 times number of investors. They basically went bankrupt, had to reorganize their business model because the banks colluded to not use their company. As a warning to future Data Treasurys out there, the banks got another piece in that legislation-you can no longer get a patent for tax strategy models. Now startups in this area are seriously fuched. Big Banks and Big Washington are cozy as two turtledoves, aren't they?
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 12 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Hello Rob,
    I think you have misunderstood khalling's intent.
    She is not trying to stifle you. She is suggesting that you expand your presence by starting a new thread on this site. You have touched upon many subjects in your introduction thread and it becomes cumbersome. Pick a particular subject of interest to you and create a new thread. It will appear on the first page and remain there where others will see it and perhaps participate until it is crowded out by new entries.
    Respectfully,
    O.A.
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    Posted by Boborobdos 12 years ago in reply to this comment.
    From khalling: "So, will the decision makers who see you on paper just let you die?"

    That's the way it works now. Except those decision makers have to worry about stockholders and making sure someone picks up their laundry for them.

    "who best to make one's own health decisions?"

    Each individual with their doctor(s) of choice. With the only concern being the desires of the patient. BTW, that includes decisions about assisted suicide and abortion.

    Please consider that Obama does care enough that each woman can decide for herself about abortion and birth control.

    Rob
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    Posted by Boborobdos 12 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Hmmmmm, maybe a sticker on your car window that says something like, "I'll give you $100 to call an ambulance if you see me unconscious."

    Just in case there are a lot of people who think like you.

    Rob
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  • Posted by Boborobdos 12 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Hi khalling, Went to the Data Treasury information at Wikipedia because I wanted the whole story. Wow! They were able to collect millions and millions in both direct and punitive payments. Looks like it worked out for them, thanks to some influence from another part of government, the courts.

    As Paul Harvy would say: And there's more!

    Part of that is: "There has been controversy concerning the company. In 2004, the New York Times characterized DataTreasury as "a company whose only business, other than one client, appears to be suing other companies."[3] The banking industry has accused DataTreasury's lawyers of patent trolling and DataTreasury themselves of abusing the patent system by buying the patents they are enforcing.[6] The Senate version of the Patent Reform Act of 2007 (which was never enacted) contained an amendment, lobbied for by banks, tailored to protect banks from DataTreasury infringement litigation.[6] On the other hand, in 2010, just after DataTreasury won their first lawsuit, Claudio Ballard, who founded the company, was named inventor of the year.[7]" Yup, lots of folks wanna smear that company.

    Looks to me like the big banks (corporations) are the guilty party and they are the ones who are the looters.

    Doesn't remind me of government fraud or influence so much as the attack by Wesley Mouch on Rearden egged on by other corporations. That's not intrinsically government's fault but in fact is the fault of corporate manipulators who bend government to their will and evil plans.

    Rob
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years ago
    what I want is for you to get out of this post and start a new one
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years ago in reply to this comment.
    as if you are going to get to pick your own doctor on Obamacare-
    "...managed-care plans that restrict people's ability to pick out-of-network doctors, which is a common feature of the existing insurance market." -Bloomberg 8/6
    The existing insurance market is highly regulated by th federal govt and state govts. It is not some fat cats telling you what doctors you can use. It works within a narrowly defined arena, and enjoys some monopoly status created by states controlling the market. IF de-regulated and the insured could take their health insurance across state borders, you would see increased competition less "out of network" scenarios. OH, and add to the high cost states passing laws that make the insured pay a percentage of their plan to go into a kitty for the uninsured in that state.
    Better make sure your hospital isn't one that is barred under the Act from expanding.
    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/top-hospit...
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    Posted by Boborobdos 12 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Don't you want corporations to have a healthy labor pool?

    It's like education... Even though you may not have kids you sure do benefit from America having well educated citizens.

    (Yes, education needs a lot of fixing but it's better than no education)

    Rob
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    Posted by Boborobdos 12 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Panels???????? ROFL Right now insurance decisions are made by fat cats who tell people to jet back and forth to India to train "representatives" who aren't doctors and tell my doctor what he can and can't do.

    I have little choice when it comes to picking a doctor because some are "in plan" and others are not. The company I work for changed plans and doctors who I've been with for years are now too expensive because they aren't in the new plan.

    I'm looking forward to Obamacare so I can get back to picking my own doctors.

    Rob
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  • Posted by Rozar 12 years ago in reply to this comment.
    In short, yes. We all die some time and we have to accept the consequences of our actions. People die all over the world all the time.
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years ago in reply to this comment.
    we have medicaid Rob. and medicare for retired citizens. if you have a little extra you can get supplemental insurance. In Obamacare we will ALL be subjected to a panel of decision makers about our healthcare. So, will the decision makers who see you on paper just let you die? who best to make one's own health decisions? ObamaWONTcare
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 12 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Who do you think I am? The all powerful OZ? "Let" them?? I do not interfere with other people's life (or death) choices. And who are you to interfere with mine? If you feel compelled to save any and everyone you feel needs it...go for it...but leave my life alone.
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Xerox came up with a disruptive technology. It changed how the world did business. It wasn't good for the tracing paper industry. But they had the right, as the inventors, to enjoy for a limited period the rights of their property which benefited the investors, their employees and the economy of the country.
    Most recently in the America Invents Act, Congress stripped the patent rights from a little known company, Data Treasury. They had patents covering certain check verification systems that the big banks infringed. One line in that legislation stripped ONE company of particular patent rights so the big banks would not have to pay for stealing. If you go to Data Treasury's website there is a link telling you how these investors were defrauded by Big Banks and their government.
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  • Posted by Boborobdos 12 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Or from another point of view they prohibit the creation of a monopoly and the abuse of monopoly power.

    I agree that letting them go to a foreign power was a mistake.

    Rob
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