Posted on 11/25/2016 6:28:41 AM PST by rktman
Actually the Dems’ plan to effectively turn the USA into a Banana Republic would work if the process of closing down American factories and destroying our production capabilities as a country continues. What will turn the country more red is the construction (or reopening) of factories throughout the country as jobs will be created out in those rural areas more and strong tax bases will return to our counties across America. On the contrary, the shutdown of factories is the main driver of pushing people to work in the central business districts of very urban areas and its been giving the blue sanctuary sections plenty of power. So whether or not Trump can succeed in building a strong GOP base across the country depends on what happens to manufacturing.
Nevertheless I am still very alarmed at how most people at FreeRepublic.com are not paying close attention to how the failure of the federal government to enforce the Sherman Act against the medical/pharma industry monopolies/racketeering is going to destroy us financially and destroy our country. What is going on is not “free market” but a form of legalized plunder. ObamaCare is part of the symptons of this issue. But the financial symptoms are already reeking havok on the government and household budgets across America; and will destroy us if we don’t fix it. Our federal government spent 37% this past fiscal year on health care and that amount has been growing 9% per annum. This is not an issue that can wait much longer as it’ll soon detonate (unless we fix it soon) the global financial market fuse of worry about whether the US government will really make good on its debt obligations. If that fuse is lit then its over and just a matter of time before the USA republic officially goes the way of the Soviet Union and many failed empires in world history.
What needs to happen? Congress should immediately pass legislation that will cut off all funds to medical/pharma entities that refuse to be completely transparent on their pricing and that make it a crime for anyone to try to strongarm them from complying withg this law. If a private person/entity wants to get health care services from a private provider without there being transparency then that is fine/dandy for them to choose that path. But the federal government should not be paying for obfuscation/racketeering that has been going on extensively in this industry. And President Trump should announce (and have the DOJ follow up) that any entity/individual who tries to violate the Sherman Act to try to coerce any entity/individual to be cutoff from funding by being non-transparent. Doing this will help ensure that the state/local levels of government can pass appropriate legislation & do proper enforcement of sensible consumer protections for health care.
Oh btw a big part of why the factories have been shutting down here in the USA is because of the “health care” issues I’ve described above. The out-of-control price gouging and monopolization that’s going on has been scaring away investment capital. If we could restore the free market in health care then we have a hope of the USA having a real recovery in manufacturing.
Just think, this might start a revival of Constitutional limits: States get no ‘Federal funding’ and States begin to withhold said ‘payments’. Then the People may begin to engage the gray matter between their ears and start asking the questions that need asking: Freedom vs. ‘security’.
G*d damn, that brings a tear to the eye, no?!
JUST DO IT!
I would add that the threat of federal prosecution using laws already on the books that have been used to successfully prosecute/convict criminal individual/enterprises in the past can be an effective deterrent to those organizations such as the AMA that have in the past strongarmed doctors/pharmacies to not publish price lists. There is no reason why the procedure codes & pricings for health care costs can’t be published for all consumers and decision makers to make their choices? Having worked in the health care industry many times myself (i.e. as a computer programmer) and as one who worked in high school in a doctor’s office (i.e. for my dad who is a retired family practice physician) and both of my brothers are in health care (i.e. one is a MD and now a family practice resident; the other is 3rd year in Medical School) so I am well-aware of the concerns of health care providers.
37% of just fed prison pop are illegals, states vary. It will be more than 2 mil if Trump goes after the illegals on
Medical, food stamps, welfare, Cali and NYC are going to be hit hard. 56 days left of DUMBO. Lynch and unconstitutional czars will go fast too.
That is a Statutory law, and can be repealed easily if they have enough votes.
The Hobbs Act should also be employed to prosecute these POLITICAL offenders.
The Hobbs Act 18 U.S. Code § 1951, passed in 1946, is a federal law that prohibits robbery or extortion, or attempted robbery or extortion, that affects interstate or foreign commerce.
The Act originally was designed to target racketeering in labor-management disputes that were common at the time.
More recently it has been used to prosecute and jail politicans involved in graft and corruption b/c this is seen as impairing interstate commerce.
Would the Sherman Act get these big companies that are now merging into monopolies?
Something has to be done about the incestuous relationship between Congress, Big Pharma and the FDA.
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Significantly, EAR proscribes using US citizens as instrumentalities to advance a foreign government's foreign policy.
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The provisions are intended to prevent United States citizens and companies being used as instrumentalities of a foreign government's foreign policy.
Offending persons are subject to the EAR law when their activities relate to the sale, purchase, or transfer of goods or services (including the sale of information) within the United States or between the United States and a foreign country.
This covers exports and imports, financing, forwarding and shipping, and certain other transactions that may take place wholly offshore.....and/or across the borders with private donors to the Clinton Foundation in exchange for influence on U.S. policy.
Transparent medical pricing is very hard to do. An example would be two patients going into surgery for an identical procedure. Patient A is healthy, young, no medical or social issues. Patient B is older, with a laundry list of medical problems and social issues which causes more work for the health care provider. You cannot charge the patients the same amount of money. Patient B should cost more.Also,Issues crop up in the process of health care delivery which is not foreseen. How can you be transparent and accurate from the beginning when the patient first walks into your clinic?
I also think as a computer programmer and working in a doctors office in high school does not make you an expert.
Any effort by her to try to “undo” the certification would have to be done by notice/publication. In there she would have to explain its rationale using reasonable legal justifications, or else she/others involved would have culpability for malfeasance. So its unlikely that she would attempt to do so now.
On day One.
DO IT!
The problem is medical service costs exceed the ability of the customer to pay, not a good business model, unless you limit your customer base which is how it used to work.
Medical services will yield to robotization, especially for diagnosis, just like all the other industries.
No you are the mistaken one. It will happen as soon as those idiots wearing smart watches let them gather enough data.
As far as cost go, it doesn't matter why they are out of reach of the customer, fact is they are. Insurance is merely a prepaid health care service that depends on people buying insurance that don't really use the service they pay for. In other words a subsidy. Businesses that depend on a subsidy are not sustainable.
Health care is doomed as we know it, no matter what Trump or anyone else does.
Why don’t they just arrest the mayors for harboring illegal aliens? They can.
A robot could only diagnose disease that is straightforward. Diseases like diabetes.
I have seen patients come in with an accurate diagnosis, because they looked it up on a online site. However, those sites give you a range of diagnosis, which can be inaccurate.
A robot cannot diagnose disease that requires evaluation, looking and talking with the patient. Diseases like a neurologic issue.
Can a robot give an intraarticular injection? Can they do an LP?
Do you want a robot to inject your cervical disc? A mistake, and your paralyzed?
Personally, having robots be the front line would be cool. It would weed out the PITA patients. You can scream and yell at a robot, they wont care. They won’t care about your personal issues that make you unique. They wont have to worry about patient satisfaction scores. It would weed out the worried well.
If you want 2 weeks off from work because of a injury, the robot could refuse because for that particular disease process the robot is prrogrammed for, you only get 3 days off.
It would be great! But it is never going to happen.
I only hope that Trump dismantle the regulations that is drowning healthcare. Then, you will see costs decrease.
They are working now to build computers that emulate the human brain, just a matter of time.
None of this will come about in my lifetime, but it will come about unless someone decides to kill off the world as we know it, which is not unlikely at all.
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