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KPN

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14. More fillings for dentists!

Reply to yardwork (Reply #11)

Sun Jan 26, 2025, 11:24 AM

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'It's a death sentence': US health insurance system is failing, say doctors [View all] erronis Jan 2025 OP

The billionaires get rich overcharging for health insurance which does not deliver services. Irish_Dem Jan 2025 #1

Do the present administration care?............... Lovie777 Jan 2025 #2

It is called The Madcap Jan 2025 #7

It's called complicity in manslaughter dickthegrouch Jan 2025 #32

It seems to me like a coordinated effort The Madcap Jan 2025 #34

I don't disagree but manslaughter is much easier to charge and convict than genocide /nt dickthegrouch Jan 2025 #35

THEY PIMP FOR THE INSURANCE COMPANIES Skittles Jan 2025 #37

Medical schools are also part of the problem. Limiting the number of new docs produced raises costs/delays dutch777 Jan 2025 #3

Good additional analysis about hospitals, hospitalists, and RVUs. erronis Jan 2025 #5

That has been an problem for 80 years now IbogaProject Jan 2025 #8

If we can get free medical school LittleGirl Jan 2025 #9

In most cases ... liberalgunwilltravel Jan 2025 #10

Many of the midlevels are horrible, many are wonderful RockCreek Jan 2025 #26

I was talking about a PhD program liberalgunwilltravel Jan 2025 #33

Which PhD programs produce practitioners? RockCreek Jan 2025 #36

I'm not talking about practitioners liberalgunwilltravel Jan 2025 #38

True buzzycrumbhunger Jan 2025 #28

We have the same problem with the dental associations. yardwork Jan 2025 #11

More fillings for dentists! KPN Jan 2025 #14

The sad thing is that a lot of children don't get those fillings. yardwork Jan 2025 #15

Yes, there's that too. KPN Jan 2025 #25

Replace the word "care" with "profit": our healthprofit system, healthprofit insurance, United Health Profit, etc. sop Jan 2025 #4

Or perhaps replace it with wealthcare. BattleRow Jan 2025 #17

Yup. Had my own battle. Doc won. It's gonna get worse. Joinfortmill Jan 2025 #6

Let me oversimplify, simplified capitalism kills. KPN Jan 2025 #12

Bane Capital - the root of evil erronis Jan 2025 #18

I used to spell it the same way. I don't Ilsa Jan 2025 #21

Yep, the increasingly unregulated, profits-over-people form of capitalism practiced in this country is deadly. sop Jan 2025 #24

"Ha ha. Suckers." - Republicon Insurance Execs (R) BoRaGard Jan 2025 #13

As someone who has been self insured MontanaMama Jan 2025 #16

Just a note: By the time you need a PET scan they already know you have cancer. flashman13 Jan 2025 #19

I know of one melm00se Jan 2025 #20

Six weeks ago homegirl Jan 2025 #22

"We already have death panels. They're called insurance companies." Evolve Dammit Jan 2025 #23

No shit. sakabatou Jan 2025 #27

Doctors inflicted a lot of that on themselves because of greed. valleyrogue Jan 2025 #29

Back in my good-old-days, we paid the doctor directly. All transparent between patient and doctor. erronis Jan 2025 #31

It has been a death sentence for a looooong time Clouds Passing Jan 2025 #30