Dallas Fed Admits to Manipulating housing market

[Djshakes]

[quote=briansd1]The problem with health care in America is that the industry can charge whatever it wants, after the fact.

If you give an architect a blank check, he can build you the nicest house. But can you afford it?

Everyone wants to stay at the Ritz Carlton, but the average person can only afford Holiday Inn.

We need to find a way for the consumer to share the burden of care and see the cost of care ahead of time; so the consumer can benefit from shopping for health care like he shops for electronics.

For day to day stuff, medicine is not that hard. Just pick up some books and read.

We need to educate people so that they know what is healthy and what isn’t.[/quote]

We can only nanny so much…..we already do way more than we should. If a customer is too stupid to shop and determine the best value for his money than I don’t feel bad if he doesn’t get the best deal.

[patientrenter]

[quote=Djshakes]….I know you guys hate the capitalist system but we do actually care about our patients despite what you may think.[/quote]

Compared to other developed countries, we spend twice as much for average results. Our life expectancies are about average amongst this economic peer group, yet our health spending is double theirs. Something is seriously broken with our medical system. Our medical costs are way out of control, and way out of line for the results.

Fixing this, if we have the political will, cannot be done without massive cuts to the earnings of people in the medical industry. Only if we confront this will we get the burden of our excessive medical costs behind us.

Oh, and we never will. Have you ever tried cutting the compensation of a large group of people by 50%? Ain’t ever gonna happen. We’re stuck with massive health care costs forever.

[patientrenter]

[quote=Djshakes]….I know you guys hate the capitalist system but we do actually care about our patients despite what you may think.[/quote]

Compared to other developed countries, we spend twice as much for average results. Our life expectancies are about average amongst this economic peer group, yet our health spending is double theirs. Something is seriously broken with our medical system. Our medical costs are way out of control, and way out of line for the results.

Fixing this, if we have the political will, cannot be done without massive cuts to the earnings of people in the medical industry. Only if we confront this will we get the burden of our excessive medical costs behind us.

Oh, and we never will. Have you ever tried cutting the compensation of a large group of people by 50%? Ain’t ever gonna happen. We’re stuck with massive health care costs forever.

[patientrenter]

[quote=Djshakes]….I know you guys hate the capitalist system but we do actually care about our patients despite what you may think.[/quote]

Compared to other developed countries, we spend twice as much for average results. Our life expectancies are about average amongst this economic peer group, yet our health spending is double theirs. Something is seriously broken with our medical system. Our medical costs are way out of control, and way out of line for the results.

Fixing this, if we have the political will, cannot be done without massive cuts to the earnings of people in the medical industry. Only if we confront this will we get the burden of our excessive medical costs behind us.

Oh, and we never will. Have you ever tried cutting the compensation of a large group of people by 50%? Ain’t ever gonna happen. We’re stuck with massive health care costs forever.

[patientrenter]

[quote=Djshakes]….I know you guys hate the capitalist system but we do actually care about our patients despite what you may think.[/quote]

Compared to other developed countries, we spend twice as much for average results. Our life expectancies are about average amongst this economic peer group, yet our health spending is double theirs. Something is seriously broken with our medical system. Our medical costs are way out of control, and way out of line for the results.

Fixing this, if we have the political will, cannot be done without massive cuts to the earnings of people in the medical industry. Only if we confront this will we get the burden of our excessive medical costs behind us.

Oh, and we never will. Have you ever tried cutting the compensation of a large group of people by 50%? Ain’t ever gonna happen. We’re stuck with massive health care costs forever.

[patientrenter]

[quote=Djshakes]….I know you guys hate the capitalist system but we do actually care about our patients despite what you may think.[/quote]

Compared to other developed countries, we spend twice as much for average results. Our life expectancies are about average amongst this economic peer group, yet our health spending is double theirs. Something is seriously broken with our medical system. Our medical costs are way out of control, and way out of line for the results.

Fixing this, if we have the political will, cannot be done without massive cuts to the earnings of people in the medical industry. Only if we confront this will we get the burden of our excessive medical costs behind us.

Oh, and we never will. Have you ever tried cutting the compensation of a large group of people by 50%? Ain’t ever gonna happen. We’re stuck with massive health care costs forever.

[patientrenter]

[quote=CA renter]Just noticed that Danielle DiMartino was one of the authors of that article….[/quote]

CAR, thanks for that tip about a sane person hiding inside our financial system:) It’s good to hear there are some, even if they have no power.

[patientrenter]

[quote=CA renter]Just noticed that Danielle DiMartino was one of the authors of that article….[/quote]

CAR, thanks for that tip about a sane person hiding inside our financial system:) It’s good to hear there are some, even if they have no power.

[patientrenter]

[quote=CA renter]Just noticed that Danielle DiMartino was one of the authors of that article….[/quote]

CAR, thanks for that tip about a sane person hiding inside our financial system:) It’s good to hear there are some, even if they have no power.

[patientrenter]

[quote=CA renter]Just noticed that Danielle DiMartino was one of the authors of that article….[/quote]

CAR, thanks for that tip about a sane person hiding inside our financial system:) It’s good to hear there are some, even if they have no power.

[patientrenter]

[quote=CA renter]Just noticed that Danielle DiMartino was one of the authors of that article….[/quote]

CAR, thanks for that tip about a sane person hiding inside our financial system:) It’s good to hear there are some, even if they have no power.

[CA renter]

[quote=sdrealtor]yes but hair grows back post chemo. Scarred skin does not heal itself and the disfigurement can effective permanently disable a person in the yes of public opinion.[/quote]

So, you don’t believe in holistic medicine? Are there no studies showing how mental and emotional health affect physical health?

To say that this is a “cosmetic procedure” speaks volumes, IMHO.

See, that’s what socialist sytems understand. They don’t need as much of the expensive treatments and technologies because they treat the whole person. They tend to have superior aftercare and follow-up assistance that is focused on *healing* the patient and making them better.

In our system, we fill people up with expensive, toxic drugs and perform lots of expensive, invasive treatments, then we throw them out onto the street (often the same day!), with drains and pressure bandages…and lots of narcotics, and expect them to take care of themselves. In Europe, they tend to have longer hospital stays and follow-up/home care…AND they still manage to have lower healthcare costs than we do!

Sorry, our for-profit healthcare system absolutely sucks! There is absolutely no proof that our system is better than a socialist system; quite the contrary, as a matter of fact. Thank God people are finally starting to wake up and see through the capitalist brainwashing and hype.

Healthcare is a much more valuable right than the rights of capitalists to make obscene profits at sick people’s expense.

[CA renter]

[quote=sdrealtor]yes but hair grows back post chemo. Scarred skin does not heal itself and the disfigurement can effective permanently disable a person in the yes of public opinion.[/quote]

So, you don’t believe in holistic medicine? Are there no studies showing how mental and emotional health affect physical health?

To say that this is a “cosmetic procedure” speaks volumes, IMHO.

See, that’s what socialist sytems understand. They don’t need as much of the expensive treatments and technologies because they treat the whole person. They tend to have superior aftercare and follow-up assistance that is focused on *healing* the patient and making them better.

In our system, we fill people up with expensive, toxic drugs and perform lots of expensive, invasive treatments, then we throw them out onto the street (often the same day!), with drains and pressure bandages…and lots of narcotics, and expect them to take care of themselves. In Europe, they tend to have longer hospital stays and follow-up/home care…AND they still manage to have lower healthcare costs than we do!

Sorry, our for-profit healthcare system absolutely sucks! There is absolutely no proof that our system is better than a socialist system; quite the contrary, as a matter of fact. Thank God people are finally starting to wake up and see through the capitalist brainwashing and hype.

Healthcare is a much more valuable right than the rights of capitalists to make obscene profits at sick people’s expense.

[CA renter]

[quote=sdrealtor]yes but hair grows back post chemo. Scarred skin does not heal itself and the disfigurement can effective permanently disable a person in the yes of public opinion.[/quote]

So, you don’t believe in holistic medicine? Are there no studies showing how mental and emotional health affect physical health?

To say that this is a “cosmetic procedure” speaks volumes, IMHO.

See, that’s what socialist sytems understand. They don’t need as much of the expensive treatments and technologies because they treat the whole person. They tend to have superior aftercare and follow-up assistance that is focused on *healing* the patient and making them better.

In our system, we fill people up with expensive, toxic drugs and perform lots of expensive, invasive treatments, then we throw them out onto the street (often the same day!), with drains and pressure bandages…and lots of narcotics, and expect them to take care of themselves. In Europe, they tend to have longer hospital stays and follow-up/home care…AND they still manage to have lower healthcare costs than we do!

Sorry, our for-profit healthcare system absolutely sucks! There is absolutely no proof that our system is better than a socialist system; quite the contrary, as a matter of fact. Thank God people are finally starting to wake up and see through the capitalist brainwashing and hype.

Healthcare is a much more valuable right than the rights of capitalists to make obscene profits at sick people’s expense.

[CA renter]

[quote=sdrealtor]yes but hair grows back post chemo. Scarred skin does not heal itself and the disfigurement can effective permanently disable a person in the yes of public opinion.[/quote]

So, you don’t believe in holistic medicine? Are there no studies showing how mental and emotional health affect physical health?

To say that this is a “cosmetic procedure” speaks volumes, IMHO.

See, that’s what socialist sytems understand. They don’t need as much of the expensive treatments and technologies because they treat the whole person. They tend to have superior aftercare and follow-up assistance that is focused on *healing* the patient and making them better.

In our system, we fill people up with expensive, toxic drugs and perform lots of expensive, invasive treatments, then we throw them out onto the street (often the same day!), with drains and pressure bandages…and lots of narcotics, and expect them to take care of themselves. In Europe, they tend to have longer hospital stays and follow-up/home care…AND they still manage to have lower healthcare costs than we do!

Sorry, our for-profit healthcare system absolutely sucks! There is absolutely no proof that our system is better than a socialist system; quite the contrary, as a matter of fact. Thank God people are finally starting to wake up and see through the capitalist brainwashing and hype.

Healthcare is a much more valuable right than the rights of capitalists to make obscene profits at sick people’s expense.

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