Civility Pays!
This is how it feels sometimes when I am in a polite debate about rights. One time, I was talking to supposed "like" minds while they debated about whether ex-convicts could qualify for a National ID card, completely missing the point that requirement of a National ID was an infringement of my rights (I say my rights, because if people are too far gone that they cannot see the loss of rights in having to show "papers" to cross a state border, did they deserve the right to be free from it?) It's one thing to tell someone (or advocate) to do something (buy insurance) at the point of a gun (govt enforcement, robbery). Is it not the same when the govt does NOT enforce property rights (trespass, infringement, theft) and where is the cut-off (what's proper to enforce, what is force against the individual)? I am just interested in your off the cuff thoughts about it.
"We do not see" government making things better, but it is the promise that politicians make, year after year after year.
needed for his continued recovery. . I'm on xarelto because of
blood clots in the past. . why isn't he? . it seems to be the chase
for medicare bucks which keeps him on warfarin, requiring tests........ -- j
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he is still going in weekly for warfarin tests. . I think that he's just
a pawn in the Dr's office's search for medicare bucks. -- j
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As far as the definition of "Addiction" that I used, I borrowed it from; Benjamin Franklin. It refers not to chemical dependence, but the decisions we all make repetadly at times that are not truly in our best interest.
As a government entity, it is the 800kilo gorilla that nobody crosses.
Medicare certainly pushes corruption at the vendors with their nonsensical rules and regulations.
Congress keeps lowering reimbursement rates for medicare causing prices charged to medicare to have no bearing on reality. same problem occurs in the non-medicare sector as well.Simple check? Ask your medical provider their cash price for not using insurance. You will be shocked.
The system is so corrupted that vendors game it to make enough money to cover costs and turn a profit.
Patients game it, to get the treatments they need.
Insurance companies game it to maximize their profits and reduce their expenses.
Medical facilities and doctors game it to stay in business and turn a profit.
In a system so riddled with with corruption, is it any wonder prices continue to rocket up while services received continue to go down?
The concentrators do not cost all that much to start with. The O2 company charges medicare a rental fee every month that pays for the equipment in well under 2 years. Yet the same equipment remains in service with you until its 02 output drops below a certain percentage. If the government agencies had enough brains to pour piss out of a boot without instructions on the heel, they would just buy the equipment outright and give it to you. Then contract someone to test output once a year, and service as required.
The real reason they wanted to register a new serial number? Likely to show medicare "new equipment" on your account regardless of its age. If they don't do that eventually even a government 'crat will figure something is wrong.
However, I'm not sure it matters that I agree to clearly see the truth of your second part. and I have some thoughts.
They Believe: it can't happen to me, or to this country, or they don't know enough history to see the parallels between 2 differing systems, AND the biggie, they don't care, because they'll get theirs, and they'll make sure that, between the pension and the SS protection, they will - could not be -harmed, ever.
This leads to the next question. Why do they believe all these things?
Close your eyes and try to see all of the governments in history. They all so far have repeated the same steps to failure, and so have the people in those governments. The desire to control others is a insanity. The crazy thing is that all of the leaders in our government have access thousands of years of history and the fact that all governments so far have ended in failure. The part that should scare them is that the majority of these leaders met the same fate from Cesar to the Russian Tsar's to Hitler and many more up to today.
called to say that they Had To Come By and swap out the home
concentrator plus the little-bottle-filler (on top) because medicare
would stop paying unless we registered new serial numbers
TODAY. . so, that's what we did. . damned bureaucrats!!! -- j
p.s. will research and send data to you.
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I'm surprised more victims don't just "go postal."
K
about the Objectivist position on homosexuality,
which wouldn't appear on the screen yesterday?
who owns a piece of property which he's trying to sell. . it is worth
a bunch -- more than a million. . and he had a buyer, he thought......
that buyer spent more than a year "bargaining" the price down,
and then stated that he couldn't get the bank to finance the full
price, just a price 200K less. . my friend declined the reduced price.
the guy "walked away" from the deal.
then, 2 weeks later, my friend got a codes infringement notice
from the county. . "International Code Xxxx" violation. . he is required
to "clean up" the property before any sale might occur.
the county was in charge of security, for this piece of land,
when about 40K worth of auto engines and ham radio gear
was stolen, before he decided to sell.
the moral of the story? . property rights are only negative, there,
when the prospective buyer bitches to the codes office in revenge. -- j
p.s. we're already required to show papers, to vote or buy a car,
or to get a passport. . . and it's only getting worse!
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Discussion
One of the oft used tricks to get around common sense and facts is a side step question that really has nothing to do with anything. When did you quit beating your wife and kids? As for national ID I tested the concept some years a go when moving from a west coast to an east coast permanent address. At the bank I handed them my list of requirements and a social security number. Five minutes later the accounts were opened. What we think of as names are street names. Your national name is in nine digits xxx-xx-xxxx. They may leave off your street name Citizen X but they won't forget your fingerprint
At the end I put my usual answer. I have yet to find any of the proponents of what you just said or similar ideas evidence any glimmer of understanding.
I did respond once about tattooing the national name on every new born infant and in order to get voters registration cards, drivers license, fishing licenses and passports.
Most common answer..."Hey that sounds like a good idea!!!"
My usual retort when I'm in a polite mood?
Seig me no heils comrade I don't serve the party
Now six points
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