SlidellCajun

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had a hospital stay last year, and the billed amount was $178,000 just for lodging, meals, and checks on my vital stats. The insurance company “discounted” that $143,000. I want to see itemized billing to see what cost $178,000 for 5 days. There’s no accountability, so billing is astronomically wild.

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wild indeed.

There is probably a tax motive for marking the costs up and settling for less. Not sure but I suspect it.

His career is made on being provocative

Ignore

He’s a huge personality and not sure he’s really tuned in to the day to day.

Recruiting, meetings, minutia of players with issues to admin pressing for reports….

Gruden might not be down for all that

Huge issue. Serious issue. It’s an America first issue imo. We all need healthcare at some point afterall.

Trump didn’t really run on fixing health care. Interestingly though, He recently tweeted something about being sick of insurance companies making “ Trillions” off of the system. That hints at something that smells like government run healthcare or maybe more regulated insurance system. Hard to know what he really intends.

Obamacare isn’t working but I’m not sure it ever was intended to work. I always thought it was a bridge to single payer, government run insurance. For its failure, it’s increased the number of those insured. It’s just become too expensive so I expect that number will show decline going forward.

I think it’s failure is going to lead to the next big political debate.
The argument comes down to whether or not healthcare is a “right”. Democrats argue that it IS a right. As such, They also argue against the profit motive built into our system in the varied elements from doctors, to pharma, to insurance.

I am a capitalist. I struggle though when it comes to profit motive for healthcare. I’ve had some experience that rubs me the wrong way. Maybe some of you have as well. I also think there’s room for a profit in the system. Comes down to need vs want.

I also struggle with a system that accepts everyone and paying a tax that supports that. I know what that’ll become. A massive political football. An expensive football at that. And most won’t pay a dime but they’ll need the most health “care”. I don’t apologize for not wanting to pay for fhr fatty who smokes, drinks, does drugs and eats like a carny. Accountability will be lost.

With that, I have issues with our genetics.
I’ve spoken to doctors, geneticists and other medical professionals and anecdotally, I’m told that a single payer system in the US could be disasterous. Our genetics are askew. We are a melting pot and with that, we have wierd genetics. That brings wierd illness and disease.
Where single payer works, the genetics are predictable. Maybe European countries have steady genetic profiles. We dont.

Thoughts welcome

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before you get into the good cuts and there's a whopper of a markup going on and I can only hope Trump's team can get this under control.

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I see what you did there

I don’t know but I get the sense that the entire market hinges on Nvidia

Anything but beating expectations becomes a reason to sell

It’s been a gentleman’s agreement to not poach coaches from each other.

I just don’t see him at LSU

I would love it if lsu and Florida took their offers off the table

Never even mentioned lsu