(05-17-2017 12:49 PM)Hambone10 Wrote: So 'raising concerns about the state's ability to pay for it' (written by a leftist for a leftist audience) isn't an 'oh ___'? Are you now saying every state needs to use those words?
The spirit and tone of his post, especially considering the foul language, was much, much more dire than the article you cite. Not even close.
(05-17-2017 12:49 PM)Hambone10 Wrote: A first year business undergrad knows that by and large, investors don't simply stick to a single area and accept lower returns because it's 'what they know'.
But then again, plenty of times in history investors have done things that don't make sense in a textbook. I motivated a perfectly valid hypothesis for why they might try to return.
(05-17-2017 12:49 PM)Hambone10 Wrote: It's what I do for a living and has nothing to do with my ideology, especially in that i do it in California. I've seen it and addressed it every day for years now.
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Got it... so my professional experience means nothing??
Obviously your experience gives you far more credibility than me, in certain aspects.
But it certainly hasn't tamped down the harshness of the "free" market ideology slant that you add to everything.
I honestly don't know how you would answer the question "are reimbursement rates more important than helping people"?
(05-17-2017 12:49 PM)Hambone10 Wrote: so you agree that your hypothesis doesn't even hold water in your OWN mind.
This must mean that you are simplistically equating prowess and interest in scientific research with doctor "quality". Which is borderline ridiculous.
The quality of a doc is how accurately he/she can recognize disease, and prescribe appropriate treatment. It does not take a genius scientific researcher to do that ...
(05-17-2017 12:49 PM)Hambone10 Wrote: Yeah... because if we just let people who 'really wanted to help others' be doctors, we'd have more of them and they'd be better??
You glossed over 90% of the other parts that I described.
(05-17-2017 12:49 PM)Hambone10 Wrote: I was an institutional broker... 25 years selling investments to banks, insurance companies etc etc and working for Morgan Stanley... lots of mortgage product... Did well. My namee's on 'rooms' and scholarships. MS wanted me to sell the crap to my banks... money over ethics... wouldn't do it. Expected the bottom to fall out and the 'bad' guys to go broke and my banks and insurers swoop in and make a fortune. Was right on track until the Government bails out the 'bad' guys. I get pissed and 'retire'. Pretty simple. More interested in 'doing good' than 'doing well' anymore. Spent 4 years as an expert witness on all the lawsuits.... got hired by one of my clients.
This is very interesting background, and I thank you for sharing it.
It's too bad that a poor experience with a government decision has led you to subscribe to such extreme "free" market ideals.
(05-17-2017 12:49 PM)Hambone10 Wrote: Only on pedantic triviality
Nope, on the actual substance of his claim.
(05-17-2017 12:49 PM)Hambone10 Wrote: I just wish your uninformed opinion didn't come with a vote.
Well I, on the other hand, don't wish for someone to lose his/her vote simply because I don't agree with his/her viewpoint ... so long as the viewpoint is reasonable, not discriminatory, and intelligently conveyed.
(05-17-2017 01:14 PM)Kaplony Wrote: They pretty much are here. Just about every chain drug store and even several of the local ones have minute clinics, and there seems to be at least one kind of urgent care clinic every couple of miles.
Very true. Ubiquitous was the wrong word.
Was just trying to say that since that's about all regular people can afford out of pocket, that's all that would be around.
(05-17-2017 01:14 PM)Kaplony Wrote: That statement doesn't square up with the rise in concierge medical practices,
Frankly not familiar with this product, but assuming only the rich can afford it out of pocket, so therefore it does square up with what I was saying.