tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post1518718259835531874..comments2024-03-01T07:43:16.529-06:00Comments on Smart City Memphis: Digital Politics: What Has God Wrought?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-35723366568890263052009-08-17T19:12:20.309-05:002009-08-17T19:12:20.309-05:00Here's a thought, Unemployment is at 25% curre...Here's a thought, Unemployment is at 25% currently, veiled in fudgy stats, <br />The gov payments run out,<br />Consumers quit spending,<br />More layoffs,<br />More unemployment,<br />More gov checks run out,<br />Along with gov checks running out is your medical insurance payments,<br />Then you can't afford 1/2 rate COBRA,<br /> People do get sick,<br />Then many many many people will wait until they are almost septic from head to toe to get medical treatment they can't afford, <br />medical insurance companies crumble and fold,<br />there's no one left who can pay the doctor,<br />The doctors and hospitals go broke,<br />The end of what you know.<br /><br /> This all equals "no more medicine for profit", the immoral food of our government, the core of the wart-brain in charge, whether you like it or not, whether you admit it or not, it has gone so far too far that it has completely rotted out our society.<br /> The things people will sit idly by and watch is an affront to life itself.<br /> You got no instruction to weather this storm. It's done, it's unstoppable, "we'll blow them to the stone-age" in our face, what did we let politicians do in our name, now the price is everything you know.<br /> Unless.........<br /> Trying to profit too much from every business in America, creating a bubble economy, was a stall tactic to pacify people, the rope-a-dope, while three ex presidents moved funds. But there's no place left to hide the money when it's so devalued that no one wants it.<br /><br /> THAT is where this is all going.<br /> Measured success.Zippy the giverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07670742278387967862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-57205267955681930752009-08-13T17:26:01.961-05:002009-08-13T17:26:01.961-05:00God, this guy is obtuse. County residents don'...God, this guy is obtuse. County residents don't subsidize city schools. We're all county residents. There's no subsidy at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-82936856476559024672009-08-13T17:24:47.967-05:002009-08-13T17:24:47.967-05:00Oh, one more thing. Even if Shelby County Schools...Oh, one more thing. Even if Shelby County Schools becomes a special school district - a pathetically bad idea - it wouldn't result in city residents paying for city schools and county residents paying for county schools.Smart City Consultinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13985783340016474051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-56174977039586716302009-08-13T17:23:44.588-05:002009-08-13T17:23:44.588-05:00PS: I think you mean to post this on the blog post...PS: I think you mean to post this on the blog post after this one. But it's o.k. with us. Just thought you might want others interested in the subject to hear your point of view.Smart City Consultinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13985783340016474051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-9714451096505712302009-08-13T17:23:01.254-05:002009-08-13T17:23:01.254-05:00There's only one problem with the grand plan. ...There's only one problem with the grand plan. It's not legal in Tennessee. County government, not city government, has the Constitutional responsibility for public education. It's a countywide service besides. All of the kids are funded from the same pool of money. It's never made sense why Memphians should also pay a pool of money as well. If you live outside Memphis, you don't pay twice. How do you reconcile that one county citizen pays twice while another one doesn't.<br /><br />This hits at the essence of fairness. Countywide services should be on the countywide tax base. It's sort of government 101.Smart City Consultinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13985783340016474051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-11440004319757431302009-08-13T17:15:30.278-05:002009-08-13T17:15:30.278-05:00antisocialist:
We need to get you into a course o...antisocialist:<br /><br />We need to get you into a course on taxes. It's not about numbers and it's not our opinion. Independent research by state government says that Memphians have the most regressive tax structure in the state.<br /><br />And since Memphians are county residents too, why should they have to pay twice for schools if the rest of the county doesn't. That's the basis of the inequity. <br /><br />Why do they pay aboutb 70% of the total county taxes for schools and then pay 100% of what the city has been paying. Do you see the disparity?<br /><br />And three dollars should go to Memphis City Schools from county taxes for every one going to county schools. There are three times more students. The per pupil cost follows the pupils wherever they are.Smart City Consultinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13985783340016474051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-39933216546529389582009-08-13T17:14:15.653-05:002009-08-13T17:14:15.653-05:00“Shelby County Commissioner Mike Ritz said the cou...“Shelby County Commissioner Mike Ritz said the county school system’s support isn’t necessary for an agreement, and he is now doing his best to write it so that we can keep local decisions local and not be forced to go to Nashville for the Tennessee Legislature’s approval.”<br /><br /><br />Good luck with that. The state will more than likely make SCS a special school district in the next legislative session. They only waited this year to see if the city and the county commission would come to their senses. You will get your fairness then – county residents funding county schools and city residents funding city schools. Oh, I-269 is the greatest thing to ever happen to this area. Wake up to the 21st century. A crowded, crime ridden, and corrupt centralized city is becoming increasingly irrelevant. The railroads don’t run the country anymore.antisocialistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-86526322288163857582009-08-13T17:09:34.742-05:002009-08-13T17:09:34.742-05:00“But yet the taxpayers who live outside the city o...“But yet the taxpayers who live outside the city of Memphis would receive on the education portion of the tax rate an increase that could go from $1.98 to as much as $2.81.”<br /><br />So instead of the County only residents sending a 40 million dollar subsidy to MCS, they need to send a 140 million dollar subsidy to MCS? Can you really talk about tax “fairness” without giggling at the partisan pretzel you have to twist yourself into to come up with that logic?antisocialistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-8526334078504480322009-08-13T16:58:49.503-05:002009-08-13T16:58:49.503-05:00“There’s even the conventional wisdom outside Memp...“There’s even the conventional wisdom outside Memphis that they are paying more than their fair share of countywide taxes... although it's Memphians who were paying twice for schools, health services, arenas, and more.”<br /><br />Not conventional wisdom – fact. The Sherriff is a jailor and process server. How much does it cost to patrol Lakeland and Arlington? What percentage of the Health Department’s and the Med’s budget is exclusively for residents of the County outside of Memphis? What percentage of the Health Department and the Med are even funded by local dollars? Arena construction? – Do you really want to go there?antisocialistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-5016011400481034742009-08-13T16:56:21.836-05:002009-08-13T16:56:21.836-05:00“In other words, they like it just like it is now....“In other words, they like it just like it is now. They should. They’ve been making out like bandits for decades.”<br /><br />Once again, the county collects X dollars for education from county only residents. SCS spends millions and millions less than X. The county then sends those millions and millions to the MCS. You would not make a very good bandit.antisocialistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-88967618394628123162009-08-13T16:55:08.985-05:002009-08-13T16:55:08.985-05:00“yes, we know that Memphians pay twice for schools...“yes, we know that Memphians pay twice for schools and we don’t, but we’re against fairer taxes because we’d have to pay more.”<br /><br />County residents subsidize the City schools by millions and millions of dollars every year, and you know it. I have proven this over and over and over again. Just because you make the same error over and over again does not change the error.<br /><br />"Fairness" is a code word for "gimme your money to waste on my stuff".antisocialistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-50735758614480626492009-08-13T16:54:27.338-05:002009-08-13T16:54:27.338-05:00“flight out of Memphis was subsidized by city taxp...“flight out of Memphis was subsidized by city taxpayers”<br /><br />Three dollars went to Memphis schools for every one dollar that went to the county. Where, oh where did the City’s money go? Roads were built with gas tax returned through the State.antisocialistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-36875315682748329032009-08-13T06:57:08.840-05:002009-08-13T06:57:08.840-05:00It's already solved:
Look up;
"National...It's already solved:<br /><br />Look up;<br /> "National physician's Database"<br />This one thing could solve everything, that's why it was designed, t give patients a way to look up prospective physicians and see if they have been in trouble, how many times, for what, and if they are even licensed to practice anywhere, if they've changed their names, etc, if they are crooks or crap or GOOD. Then they can make an informed choice. <br /> That alone would have cut down on 100% of lawsuits for malpractice against doctors and hospitals.<br /> Conspicuously, the database, which was supposed to be accessible by the general public, can only be accessed by physicians and congress.<br /> That's right. As a side effect, Congressmen have more choice over better doctors than YOU! <br />YOU have been severely screwed in this one. <br /> Who would have paid to keep that info out of the public's hands?<br /><br />Hospital risk management lawyers, (so you can't go to trial and say "they knew he was crap!) trial lawyers (cultivating a bounty crop of lawsuits), insurance lobbies(not wanting to pay out more for knowledge of bad doctor's records), and doctor's lobbyists (for bad doctor's who don't want to stop practicing, making money, even though they kill most of their patients).<br /><br />This is THE CORE SOLUTION.<br /><br /><br /><br />Look up "Tort Reform"<br />No matter what you think, this is not going to do crap. <br /><br />Read Obama's bill:<br />http://edlabor.house.gov/documents/111/pdf/publications/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdfZippy the giverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07670742278387967862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-50985579522941075682009-08-12T17:21:17.270-05:002009-08-12T17:21:17.270-05:00Vast conspirator:
Fox news is objective like Izve...Vast conspirator:<br /><br />Fox news is objective like Izvestia was. <br /><br />We're not trying to shut down any debate. We just want to be able to hear every one's voice. <br /><br />And funny how none of these people have a problem with "socialized medicine" when it comes to Medicare, VA, etc. It's all about the "all about me" state we find outselves in.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13153190376262751078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-79492063847230912302009-08-12T09:21:12.159-05:002009-08-12T09:21:12.159-05:00If they have no money or insurance they'll be ...If they have no money or insurance they'll be outside the door in a paper jumpsuit. Go look out the back door of the med if you don't believe it.<br /> Ever have a problem with a doc and ask what's happening and the doctor suddenly transferred out of state without the hospital telling you and you have no idea where they went and your records are missing?<br /> Come on smarty-pants, what does your tort reform do for patients in such "everyday" instances?<br /> NOTHING!<br /><br /> You will not see any relief from this economic depression until this problem is solved.<br /><br /> <br /> <br /> Jupiter:<br /> <br />The only reason there is "defensive medicine" as you put it, is because DOCTORS DO NOT POLICE THEIR OWN INDUSTRY!!!!!!<br />They should, because, THAT is the ONLY thing that will make a huge difference in insurance rates short of Obama's bill and since it isn't going to happen, since it hasn't for decades, this is what we are left to.<br /> Dipsticks like corker and his bought off ilk are shills for special interests, lying to hoodwink the ignorant so they can keep their money.<br /> I have big news for them, it's too late, unless they have been engaging in some illegal stashing of cash offshore, which is no biggy because I have plenty of family offshore too. I understand there is a depression there too. This depression is not over until this issue is done and TORT REFORM IS NOT IT, that's just a BIG RED HERRING.<br /> There is no such thing as Tort reform.<br /> Those laws are there because docs don't police their industry, and without them there is no recourse for families who have suffered catastrophic breadwinner loss due to malpractice or malicious care.<br /> <br /> They close ranks and cover up in those instances.<br /> <br /> Trust me, I have the inside scoop on that, I'm giving you gospel, not prophecy.<br /> <br /> Even their licensing boards cover up for docs, they are just there to collect fees for licenses to operate, they don't take them away or police unless the government holds heir nose to the floor.<br /> YOU are a bunch of "wing-nuts". I don't think a bunch of windbags who have no clue what they are talking about but get money from special interests posting on this board as if they do serves anyone but special interest groups top money makers.<br /> Your companies are about to go broke. You are now public enemy number one. You'd like to spin it like the president who was elected is, but, nope, it's you guys. Depression part two is coming because of you.<br /> I guess you guys are dim. Only a dim person could not see further than the end of their nose.<br /> Your phony cry for Tort reform is hollow and is just more of your whistling and howling in the breeze.<br /><br /> I'll tell you what you can do, and you can do this for no reason at all, because, you're legally entitled to a copy of all your medical records.<br /> Go to the place where you had your last medical procedure and ask for your medical records, all of them.<br /> If they don't "immediately" give them to you, I mean ANY delay what so ever, and if ANY records missing, no matter how reasonable it sounds, RUN for your life, because you just became a "target".<br /> Don't believe it?<br /> Try it, smartypants, see who you're protecting.<br /> I DARE YOU.<br />If you don't think they are America's biggest threat, you never payed attention.<br /> Go ahead, ask for them, big talkers.Zippy the giverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07670742278387967862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-53286390895086858332009-08-12T09:20:58.407-05:002009-08-12T09:20:58.407-05:00Vast conspirator:
Did you sleep through t...Vast conspirator:<br /> <br /> Did you sleep through the last president?<br /> <br />Are you in a coma now?<br /><br />Tort Reform has already gone through, and what did it accomplish?<br /><br />It took every form of recourse away from patients who get maimed or killed, suffer catastrophic loss due to malpractice or malicious care.<br />68% of bankruptcies, the wingnut rights other pet peeve hot button buzzword red herring, are caused by those circumstances.<br /><br /> Tort Reform only benefitted hospitals and insurance companies, also limiting how much you could sue for destroyed the only way to get bad doctors out of business. Licensing boards won't do it. Doctors don't report bad doctors no matter how many they kill. They close ranks and continue to let them kill.<br /> There was a doctor right here in Memphis that was named "doctor nick" by his fellow doctors, because, he would operate on children and "accidentally" nick their liver or aorta and kill the child, if they livd they developed sepsis and died later because he didn't wash his hands, there is a doctor in North Carolina that induces children without any means of resuscitation, there is one in Arkansas that gives children the wrong meds and damages their organs permanently and kills some kids that come in with "a cold", they leave in a pine box. The records get lost.<br /> Then, they wheel them out of the OR so that the death doesn't count on the OR's stats! The recovery room gets them, if they are crashing there, they wheel them quickly into the ICU, so if they die, they're on their stats instead, if they crash there, they wheel them to the floor to die.Zippy the giverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07670742278387967862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-56046605934591243612009-08-12T08:55:03.484-05:002009-08-12T08:55:03.484-05:00To the conspirator:
"4. Memphisj, does the &...To the conspirator:<br /><br />"4. Memphisj, does the "radical right fringe" include everyone who opposes government-run health care? Using Al Gore style descriptives of one's opponent doesn't advance the conversation."<br /><br />Have no idea what Al Gore has to do with this, last I heard he hasn't been in office for almost 9 years, but I'll answer this way.<br /><br />I do consider it radical to see the majority of the town hall shouters/disrupters to be clearly retirees who are packing, not a gun, but a medicare card, LOL. On Social Security and Medicare (both government run programs) they don't want anyone else to enjoy the benefits they receive. <br /><br />I'd love to take my chances with a government administered program over a strictly for-profit medical system that makes life and death decisions every day by denying coverage to those who already hold insurance. <br /><br />When I see those protestors gathering in a circle and burning their medicare cards and social security checks, I'll put more stock in what they have to say.memphisjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-50809270575445395582009-08-11T19:47:47.428-05:002009-08-11T19:47:47.428-05:00I totally support tort reform, but am not going to...I totally support tort reform, but am not going to oppose the present reform just because tort reform is not (yet) included.<br />I figure Obama is just trying to get the public plan option through for now. He'll anger his lawyer buddies with tort reform later. <br />Patience, people. One step at a time.<br />I'm going to make a bold claim, that unfortunately I can't back up, that most liberals will support some form of tort reform once the problem of "defensive medicine" is explained.<br />It is a huge part of our inflated healthcare spending and I will stand with other liberals demanding with my vote that it be addressed.<br />Just...not right now.Jupiternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-12642802122487324332009-08-11T17:50:52.299-05:002009-08-11T17:50:52.299-05:001. Fox News is objective. Fox News Channel comme...1. Fox News is objective. Fox News Channel commentary shows (O'Reilly, Hannity) are not objective, nor do they claim to be. <br /><br />2. >>>from rules about health care to ground squirrels – as socialism. Listening to their screed, it’s hard to condemn citizens who take the same kind of absurdism to the streets. <br /><br />That's the comment on Obama and socialism. <br /><br /><br />3. There are innumerable ways to improve health care costs without a single-payer, i.e., government-run, insurance. Tort reform would be a good start, but Democrats quash it every time because trial lawyers are one of their biggest groups of contributors. <br /><br />4. Memphisj, does the "radical right fringe" include everyone who opposes government-run health care? Using Al Gore style descriptives of one's opponent doesn't advance the conversation.vast_conspiratornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-85616137449085886952009-08-11T15:56:34.429-05:002009-08-11T15:56:34.429-05:00While I'm not happy with SCM trying to make so...While I'm not happy with SCM trying to make some type of equivalency in the first paragraph by saying "the left" uses glib sloganeering and social media self-organizing (for heaven's sake, you're kidding right) I don't see the left doing the shouting in this case. <br /><br />You seem to really be attracting the trolls lately Tom and it would be the smart thing to get them under control, as hard as that is because apparently most of the posters have incredible insurance with no problems whatsoever. Well, great for them. <br /><br />I am self-employed and am fortunate at 55 to be in good health. My "catastrophic" health insurance has increased about $200 a month in 3 years to almost $400 per month. This with (I think) a $5K deductible. But I'm reading more and more where the so-called catastrophic insurance actually may not pay if am forced into a long hospital stay. Not to mention that my business has taken a hit with the economy and the thought of these increases over the next 10 years before "retirement", well, some of you can do the math.<br /><br />I've lived in this community for 21 years and have paid off one house and am close to paying off another and yet I wonder if an accident or illness/surgery could put me in debt with no ability to pay it off. In a country as rich as ours it makes no sense. <br /><br />The reality is that 50 million American have no health insurance. We all pay for that whether you realize it or not. Employers are dropping coverage. Since 1999 health insurance premiums have increased 120 percent, inflation grew 44 percent and wages grew 29 percent during the same period. <br /><br />A recent Harvard study found the average out-of-pocket medical for for those who filed bankruptcy was $12,000. 68 percent of those who filed had health insurance. 50 percent of all bankruptcy filings were partly the result of medical expenses. <br /><br />I know facts are tricky things, but we do have a health care crisis in this country and we need reform badly. Contrary to what many might think our health outcomes are not as good as many countries with single payer systems. <br /><br />My only hope with the ignorance and hate being displayed at these town hall meetings is that the majority of us can see just how unhinged and uneducated this radical right fringe is.memphisjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-16943210135203589302009-08-11T12:31:08.395-05:002009-08-11T12:31:08.395-05:00vast conspirator:
You are aptly named. Fox News...vast conspirator: <br /><br />You are aptly named. Fox News does not adhere to accepted journalistic principles nor does it seem to try to. That's not the same as saying conservatives didn't like coverage on the Nightly News. Fish and fowl.<br /><br />Also, we have our opinion about socialism, but we're not sure what that has to do with Obama.<br /><br />Republicans are so good at shooting themselves in the foot. This isn't about a replay of Hillary Clinton's health care, as much as right-wingers try to make it. It's about replying to 50 million uninsured Americans. We have friends who are faced with tough decisions because of lack of health care, so we take this personally.<br /><br />Our members of Congress should respect us enough to talk intelligently about options and we should respect ourselves enough to actually listen and discuss.Smart City Consultinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13985783340016474051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-3763630958715164422009-08-11T08:55:58.458-05:002009-08-11T08:55:58.458-05:00I went to the town hall meeting and it was certain...I went to the town hall meeting and it was certainly an educational experience. I was embarrassed that the young people in attendance witnessed so many seemingly mature adults acting rude and generally idiotic. Congressman Cohen and his staff did a fine job under very trying circumstances.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-56490907828396184692009-08-11T08:13:09.135-05:002009-08-11T08:13:09.135-05:00NO ONE opposes healthcare reform.
They have been ...NO ONE opposes healthcare reform.<br /> They have been powerless to effect change because:<br />#1 The secrecy of the "national physician database", which would have given the people the power of choice that would have mitigated a LOT of lawsuits and insurance claims. Lame doctors would have seen no patients and not get sued.<br />#2, Hospital "risk management" covering up mistakes and advising docs to take home and "lose" records that expose BIG mistakes that kill or maim patients.<br />#3, Drug Companies paying docs to use medicine that doesn't work on patients that can't afford the good stuff.<br />#4, Doctor's Lobbies that pay politicians to do stupid things like try to rush through legislation like this in an inappropriate amount of time for a 1000 page document.<br />#5, Political party propaganda for the opposing side that has no basis in reality and takes extreme license with the language in the bill. If actually read the passages they absolutely can not be construed as what the republican side wants.<br />#6, Insurance companies not insisting on reform.<br /> <br /> If we've learned anything ion the past eight years, it's that businesses, and especially big businesses, CAN NOT POLICE THEMSELVES, AND DOCTORS ARE AS GUILTY OF THIS AS ANY BUSINESS OUT THERE.Zippy the giverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07670742278387967862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-9471140573406303272009-08-10T22:36:45.911-05:002009-08-10T22:36:45.911-05:00I see SCM has hired Michael Moore to write columns...I see SCM has hired Michael Moore to write columns now. Sheesh, where to begin? <br /><br />1. Get over Fox News. Now you know what conservatives felt for 35years before Fox came on the air ... except there was no alternative then. Fox News is here, get used to it. To coin a phrase. <br /><br />2. Democrats need to decide about socialism. A few weeks ago SCM wrote that socialism was Biblical principles in action. Now it's an outrage to suggest that Obama's plan is socialist. Well which is it: heaven-sent or an abomination? <br /><br />3. The only people crying out for drastic health reform are Democratic politicians. And that is based on the premise that the population will vote according to its interest, which would be in keeping Democrats in charge of health care. <br /><br />4. Democratic health care reform failed spectacularly in 1993, and surprise of surprises, it's unpopular today as well. Millions opposed it under Hillary, yet it's racist to oppose it today? Articulate that argument for us, SCM. I mean Michael.vast_conspiratornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-47927751716567210442009-08-10T22:14:33.179-05:002009-08-10T22:14:33.179-05:00Tort Reform? Bush just got done doing that making ...Tort Reform? Bush just got done doing that making statute of limitations so short you couldn't get a lawyer in time.<br /> That's nuts and woefully uninformed about what MANY hospitals in THIS COUNTRY do to people and then cover it up. <br /> Without lawsuits there is ABSOLUTELY NO RECOURSE OF ANY KIND FOR ACCIDENTAL OR MALICIOUS doctors. The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL NEVER HAVE YOUR BACK and prosecute.<br /> They haven't done it yet.<br /> Lawsuits don't make the insurance rates go higher, Northern Insurance is OWNED BY THE DOCTORS WHO USE IT.<br /> <br />MAYBE DOCTORS COULD POLICE THEIR OWN INDUSTRY INSTEAD OF MAIMING OR KILLING, COVERING UP BY LOSING MEDICAL RECORDS AND INSTRUCTING STAFF TO DO STUPID THINGS, AND WHINING ABOUT MALPRACTICE INSURANCE, OR HEALTHCARE REFORM.<br /> <br /> If doctors did police their own, the people's insurance rates would go down! You could lower your own malpractice insurance rates, less people would be maimed, hospitals would not get sued so often and their insurance rates would go down too, a LOT!<br /> But you know that and so do they, isn't that right? And yet none of the docs or hospitals or drug companies or even insurance companies have done a damn thing about it, have they? <br />No they havn't.<br /> Maybe you could open up the<br /> "National Physicians Database"<br /> that was created with the intent to let patients look at a doctor's malpractice record TO THE PUBLIC AS IT WAS INTENDED, so they could choose not to go to docs that are awful!<br /> Doctor's lobbies paid to keep that all a secret and keep the public from ever finding out about a bad doc's record, didn't they? <br />Yes, they did.<br /> See, that could have done it all for you, but doctors never got in board, so, now, they have to have their ass torn off to get the message and here it comes.<br /> Well, they asked for it, they got it, toyota.<br /><br /> The solution to this problem is not to do nothing to the system or minimize existing corrective measures, nor is it to fall for propaganda or a bait and switch. It's to read the doc, all 1000 pages, and make up your mind, not read propaganda.<br /> I don't buy your stats on England's healthcare employment, they don't have enough people to beat china's army for that.<br /> Propaganda.<br /> This would be easier if you wouldn't lie about stuff. When you have no integrity, no one believes you, except in Memphis.<br /> LISTENING WOULD BE A START.<br /> The medical industrial complex is much worse than the military these days but they seem to be competing for bragging rights.Zippy the giverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07670742278387967862noreply@blogger.com