-PJ
Posted on 10/04/2025 10:33:37 AM PDT by DFG
“Rationing is coming whether you like it or not.”
Operating rooms probably have a 40% 24/7/365 utilization rate.
The R&D and manufacturing costs of a drug are pretty much fixed. The marginal cost of giving it to Mr. B.D. Griffin is small.
The law might be changed so $300/hour M.D.s can only prescribe emergency drugs and anesthesia drugs.
If you want other drugs, you’d have to ask for $90/hour physician assistants.
“DaVita”
Kidney Patient Self-Help Association Patient Agreement
I understand that in exchange for 20 dialysis treatments that I will have to pay $X or have 1.2 times $X withheld from my Social Security unless I study for and pass the dialysis administration exams of the Kidney Patient Self-Help Association....
I understand that in any case there will be a membrane charge of $Y and a facilty charge of $Z per session.
“conditioning methods”
I take it you don’t shop at Whalemart.
Obamacare won’t be repealed, because it can’t be repealed - or, more exactly, it can’t be repealed without ushering in huge Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate.
Members of Congress don’t know much, but they can count votes like a pimp in a whorehouse can count money.
Yes, the voters “hate Obamacare and want it repealed”. That is absolutely true.
It’s also true that they want the ability to buy insurance for pre-existing conditions, want insurance companies to be forbidden to cancel policies for non-payment, want zero payment at the point of service, want their adult children who are smoking meth in a dive in Oakland to stay covered, want their States to expand Medicaid without taxes going up, and so on.
In other words, the only two things they hate about Obamacare are paying for it, and the name.
Republicans in Congress understand this perfectly well, which is why there’s no plan.
And, not coincidentally, Obamacare (and Romneycare) were the culmination of fifty years of “reform”, all of which had the purpose of destroying the private sector or making it impossible for the private sector to function, except for boob jobs and a few other things. And, by 2009, the mission was largely accomplished.
Obamacare was merely a temporary mop-up operation, until full nationalization was possible.
And now, it is.
“conditioning methods”
If the nurses are obese....
FDA APPROVAL APPLICATION FORM
In exchange for receiving exclusive federal approval to sell Drug X while federal patent rights prevent others making it, we agree to sell it during that time and for 24 months following for no more than 10% of a patient household’s available income for federal health care cost coverage purposes if it is a biological, 5% if it is a breakthrough drug made by chemical factory processes, or 3% otherwise....
-PJ
drug - a chemical in a plastic container or vial
operation - a few hours a person with a knife, a person with two tanks and a person with two hands and a tray of metal tools
doctor visit - 15 to 20 minutes with a person, a room, some furniture, a pen and a tear-off pad
post-op - a bed, half or all of a small room, and about three hours a day of a woman’s time for a few days
DRUG PLAN CUSTOMER AGREEMENT
....
The insured understands that if a drug company refuses to provide the customer with a product for under $30 per treatment day that the insured may have to travel to China or Russia to get the drug and may have to reside there for as long as the policy is in force.
The drug plan will pay the reasonable costs of travel to and fro and residence.
The federal government controls the patent system and FDA that enable drugs to be high priced.
Just take out the vital elements of O Care.
Remove the mandate for everyone to buy insurance.
Remove the mandates on employers to provide insurance.
Force O Care to compete on a level playing field with private companies.
Obamacare didn’t create better health care insurance options for consumers; it created millions of state dependents. Expansion of the welfare state and income redistribution.
Subsidies are a payoff to insurance companies. Luigi murdered Brian Thompson for what? They’re on the same side
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