A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
you're deflecting. YOU said that national healthcare would be better than any private run healthcare. I also asked you why you felt that people have a right to the goods and services of a specific industry, which you avoided answering, choosing instead to deflect to something else. Then you finally answered NO on price controls...........to whit I asked you what WOULD be regulated. Now you want me to tell you how medicare is regulated?
why can't you clearly delineate why national run/regulated healthcare is better than privately run?
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
Government must also approve medical procedures. My wife has had three back injections ordered by a doctor and before each one we had to make a 200 mile roundtrip for a ten minute visit before Medicare approved the procedure in addition to the initial visit. The first back injection was required by Medicare before she could get a back operation.
ThatOwlWoman (12-08-2022)
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
That's typical for all types of spinal surgeries. I did utilization review for workers comp cases before retiring. We had protocols that had to be followed -- set up by the various insurance companies -- before we could approve an orthopedic surgery (most of the cases were orthopedic). Torn rotator cuff? PT, injections, NSAIDs. Diagnostics showing the acute injury. Specific measurements of lack of function, as well as continuing pain. Only then could we approve a surgical repair. Ditto for spinal injuries whether cervical or lumber. PT, medication, epidural steroid injections, then possibly a fusion if these treatments were ineffective. As nurses we were unable to approve fusions so our peer review physicians did that. The insurance companies were all private corporations; none of this was government.
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
No. The company I worked for did utilization review for private insurers, who carried the workers comp insurance for private companies, by state mandate. Liberty Mutual was one company; there was also Aetna, Gallagher-Bassett, and several others that were both national and regional. The only government involvement was the states' requirements that employers carry WC insurance for their employees.
Medicare and Medicaid though have similar standards for review depending on what the requested procedure/diagnostics/surgery is, and whether it is emergent or not.
Last edited by ThatOwlWoman; 12-08-2022 at 11:02 AM. Reason: typo
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Yep, supplemental plans run by private insurers make up the difference between what Medicare covers and what it doesn't. Judging by the annual bombardment of advertising, emails, and snail mail solicitations we get every year, there is big BIG money in providing these supplemental plans. So if we did adopt a national Medicare-for-all kind of insurance coverage, private insurance firms would not go out of business.
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
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