Rain Dance Kunstler. Clusterfuck Nation. Now appearing Mondays and Fridays. Support this blog by visiting Jims Patreon Page Think of the Obama. Care reform debate now playing in the US Senate as the final gurglings of polity that knows it is whirling around the drain. Theyre pretending to attempt to fix a racket that comprises eight percent of the American economy. Yikes How did that happen At the beginning of the 2. The standard explanation is that, first, Medicare jacked up overall healthcare activity in the 1. Secondarily, technological innovation opened up so many new methods of disease control for everybody, young and old, that were able to treat more sickness in more complicated ways and that drove costs up way further. The greater part of the story remains neatly concealed within the matrix of rackets erected around the money flows since the big cost bump up in the 1. Big Pharma, corporatized doctors practices, hospital monopolies, and, of course, politicians on the take dividing amongst each other a colossal pool of grift that exists mainly for one simple reason the cost of everything is hidden from public view. Nobody has any idea what anything costs. Certainly not the patients, sometimes called customers or consumers but really hostages. If you go into the hospital for a stent in the left descending coronary artery, nobody will tell you what it costs, starting with the doctors who have performed the procedure a thousand times. MSN Money is the hub for your financial life. Be informed and ahead with our realtime stock quotes, deep tools and calculators, and breaking news and. During a recent interview at my local unemployment office, the man charged with my case looked at my rsum and expressed his admiration of American journalism. Jonathan Theres a few other lessons from the Wizard of Oz. Neither the lion, Dorothy, the Scare Crow, or the Tin Man, could make it on their own. Control Wizard Cookbook. This guide was created by three guys on the XB1 platform to help out all other Control Wizards whether on XB1, PS4, or PC with an emphasis. They cant even estimate the cost or wont, though they could probably give you a pretty good ballpark number for the cost and installation of a new fuel pump on their BMW 2. Charges for medical care are never discussed with the patient. 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If you ask the ones who interface with you at the check out counter how your bill was toted up exactly, you will receive nothing more than a pitiless stare of contempt which is actually aimed inward at their own existential quandaries, a pathological dynamic that perhaps deserves attention from the research funding troughs. The cost of everything medical is worked out in a private rain dance between the aforementioned manifold concerned parties on the basis of what they think they can get away with in any particular case. In hospitals, this is enabled by the notorious Charge. Master system which, to put it as simply as possible, allows hospitals to just make shit up. Any bill in congress that affects to reform the gross financial malfeasance in healthcare ought to start with the absolute requirement to publicly post the cost of everything that doctors and hospitals do, and enable the service providers to get paid only those publicly posted costs obviating the lucrative rain dance for dividing up the ransoms paid by hostage patients who come to the providers, after all, in extremis. Notice that this crucial feature of the crisis is missing not only from the political debate but also from the supposedly public interest minded pages of The New York Times and other organs of the news media. Build Recording Studio Room Sims 2 there. Perhaps this facet of the problem never entered the editors minds in which case you really have to ask how dumb are theyThe funniest claim about Obama. Threats against Bush at public protests. A protester with a sign saying Kill Bush and advocating that the White House be bombed, at the March 18, 2007 antiwar. A great many people have been outraged this week by the socalled antidiversity memo Googles Ideological Echo Chamber, written by software engineer James. News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions. Care in todays New York Times is the statement that 2. Affordable Care Act. Really You mean they got health insurance policies with 8. What planet do The New York Times editorial writers live onThe corollary questions about deconstructing the insurance armature of the health care racket, and assigning its duties to a single payer government agency is, of course, a higher level of debate. Im not saying it would work, even if it was modeled on one of the systems currently working elsewhere, say in France. Marvel Vs. Dc Comics Mugen Edition On Pc here. But Americans have acquired an allergy to even thinking about that, or at least theyve been conditioned to imagine theyre allergic by self interested politicians. So, the current product of debate in the US Senate is just a scheme for pretending to reapportion the colossal flow of grift among the grifters. Spare yourself the angst of even worrying about the outcome of the current healthcare debate. Its not going to get fixed. The medical system as we know it is going to blow up, and soon, just like the pension systems across the country, and the treasuries of the fifty states themselves, and the rest of the Potemkin US economy. Great Summer Reading JHKs new bookSimply the best novel of the 1. Read the first chapter here click on Patreon. Buy the book at Amazon or click on the cover belowor get autographed copies from Battenkill Books. Other Books by JHKSupport this blog by visiting Jims Patreon Page.