[sd_matt]

I have heard of some saying to allow interstate competition.

What is that about?

[sd_matt]

I have heard of some saying to allow interstate competition.

What is that about?

[sd_matt]

[quote=SK in CV][quote=sd_matt]”….70% of doctors polled in a Tipp/IBD poll 2 weeks ago opposed it, 45% said they would retire or quit the profession….”

Quite the disparity.

But who is Tipp/IBD? Ah here we go…http://www.tipponline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=3

Lets see what I can find from Gallup or Pew…[/quote]

I saw that a few weeks ago, and a few things jumped out at me.

First, the poll was done by mail. Highly unusual for scientific polls. I couldn’t find the margin of error (I confess I didn’t look real hard) but I suspect it’s pretty high.

Second, it said “responses are still coming in”. Huh? How can they publish poll results when they don’t have a completed poll? Most any respected pollster will confirm this is both highly unusual and dubious.

Third, at least one of the questions is atrocious: “Do you believe the government can cover 47 million more people and it will cost less money and the quality of care will be better?”. Good pollsters ask one question at a time. That’s arguably three questions. Otherwise it’s impossible to know which question the respondents are answering. It’s a useless poll question.

And lastly, IBD/Tipp sounded familiar, so I looked. This is the same organization that had the presidential election a year ago a virtual dead heat 11 days before the election, with an astounding almost 12% undecided. More than double any other poll. They also had McCain winning the 18-24 demographic by a whopping 74 to 22% margin. According to the NY Times, just 11 days later, Obama won that demographic by a margin of 66 to 32%.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6m0u0rGkVnc/SQHbXTSsGZI/AAAAAAAAAKg/F8o56ruvWXw/s1600-h/smltrackpoll102408.gif

As a professional polling organization, IBD/TIPP sucks. Which explains why their poll results are so different than others.[/quote]

Yeah I didn’t catch that. Mail polls are known to be unreliable. Same with straw polls.

Here’s some legislation that makes sense to me regardless of opinion from the horses mouth. HR 1583. It repeals some or all of the 1945 McCarran-Ferguson Act, which exempts the insurance industry from anti-trust laws. Here’s the link;
http://www.ifebp.org/Resources/News/Regulatory+Updates/CRS+Report+Insurance.htm

[sd_matt]

[quote=SK in CV][quote=sd_matt]”….70% of doctors polled in a Tipp/IBD poll 2 weeks ago opposed it, 45% said they would retire or quit the profession….”

Quite the disparity.

But who is Tipp/IBD? Ah here we go…http://www.tipponline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=3

Lets see what I can find from Gallup or Pew…[/quote]

I saw that a few weeks ago, and a few things jumped out at me.

First, the poll was done by mail. Highly unusual for scientific polls. I couldn’t find the margin of error (I confess I didn’t look real hard) but I suspect it’s pretty high.

Second, it said “responses are still coming in”. Huh? How can they publish poll results when they don’t have a completed poll? Most any respected pollster will confirm this is both highly unusual and dubious.

Third, at least one of the questions is atrocious: “Do you believe the government can cover 47 million more people and it will cost less money and the quality of care will be better?”. Good pollsters ask one question at a time. That’s arguably three questions. Otherwise it’s impossible to know which question the respondents are answering. It’s a useless poll question.

And lastly, IBD/Tipp sounded familiar, so I looked. This is the same organization that had the presidential election a year ago a virtual dead heat 11 days before the election, with an astounding almost 12% undecided. More than double any other poll. They also had McCain winning the 18-24 demographic by a whopping 74 to 22% margin. According to the NY Times, just 11 days later, Obama won that demographic by a margin of 66 to 32%.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6m0u0rGkVnc/SQHbXTSsGZI/AAAAAAAAAKg/F8o56ruvWXw/s1600-h/smltrackpoll102408.gif

As a professional polling organization, IBD/TIPP sucks. Which explains why their poll results are so different than others.[/quote]

Yeah I didn’t catch that. Mail polls are known to be unreliable. Same with straw polls.

Here’s some legislation that makes sense to me regardless of opinion from the horses mouth. HR 1583. It repeals some or all of the 1945 McCarran-Ferguson Act, which exempts the insurance industry from anti-trust laws. Here’s the link;
http://www.ifebp.org/Resources/News/Regulatory+Updates/CRS+Report+Insurance.htm

[sd_matt]

[quote=SK in CV][quote=sd_matt]”….70% of doctors polled in a Tipp/IBD poll 2 weeks ago opposed it, 45% said they would retire or quit the profession….”

Quite the disparity.

But who is Tipp/IBD? Ah here we go…http://www.tipponline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=3

Lets see what I can find from Gallup or Pew…[/quote]

I saw that a few weeks ago, and a few things jumped out at me.

First, the poll was done by mail. Highly unusual for scientific polls. I couldn’t find the margin of error (I confess I didn’t look real hard) but I suspect it’s pretty high.

Second, it said “responses are still coming in”. Huh? How can they publish poll results when they don’t have a completed poll? Most any respected pollster will confirm this is both highly unusual and dubious.

Third, at least one of the questions is atrocious: “Do you believe the government can cover 47 million more people and it will cost less money and the quality of care will be better?”. Good pollsters ask one question at a time. That’s arguably three questions. Otherwise it’s impossible to know which question the respondents are answering. It’s a useless poll question.

And lastly, IBD/Tipp sounded familiar, so I looked. This is the same organization that had the presidential election a year ago a virtual dead heat 11 days before the election, with an astounding almost 12% undecided. More than double any other poll. They also had McCain winning the 18-24 demographic by a whopping 74 to 22% margin. According to the NY Times, just 11 days later, Obama won that demographic by a margin of 66 to 32%.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6m0u0rGkVnc/SQHbXTSsGZI/AAAAAAAAAKg/F8o56ruvWXw/s1600-h/smltrackpoll102408.gif

As a professional polling organization, IBD/TIPP sucks. Which explains why their poll results are so different than others.[/quote]

Yeah I didn’t catch that. Mail polls are known to be unreliable. Same with straw polls.

Here’s some legislation that makes sense to me regardless of opinion from the horses mouth. HR 1583. It repeals some or all of the 1945 McCarran-Ferguson Act, which exempts the insurance industry from anti-trust laws. Here’s the link;
http://www.ifebp.org/Resources/News/Regulatory+Updates/CRS+Report+Insurance.htm

[sd_matt]

[quote=SK in CV][quote=sd_matt]”….70% of doctors polled in a Tipp/IBD poll 2 weeks ago opposed it, 45% said they would retire or quit the profession….”

Quite the disparity.

But who is Tipp/IBD? Ah here we go…http://www.tipponline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=3

Lets see what I can find from Gallup or Pew…[/quote]

I saw that a few weeks ago, and a few things jumped out at me.

First, the poll was done by mail. Highly unusual for scientific polls. I couldn’t find the margin of error (I confess I didn’t look real hard) but I suspect it’s pretty high.

Second, it said “responses are still coming in”. Huh? How can they publish poll results when they don’t have a completed poll? Most any respected pollster will confirm this is both highly unusual and dubious.

Third, at least one of the questions is atrocious: “Do you believe the government can cover 47 million more people and it will cost less money and the quality of care will be better?”. Good pollsters ask one question at a time. That’s arguably three questions. Otherwise it’s impossible to know which question the respondents are answering. It’s a useless poll question.

And lastly, IBD/Tipp sounded familiar, so I looked. This is the same organization that had the presidential election a year ago a virtual dead heat 11 days before the election, with an astounding almost 12% undecided. More than double any other poll. They also had McCain winning the 18-24 demographic by a whopping 74 to 22% margin. According to the NY Times, just 11 days later, Obama won that demographic by a margin of 66 to 32%.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6m0u0rGkVnc/SQHbXTSsGZI/AAAAAAAAAKg/F8o56ruvWXw/s1600-h/smltrackpoll102408.gif

As a professional polling organization, IBD/TIPP sucks. Which explains why their poll results are so different than others.[/quote]

Yeah I didn’t catch that. Mail polls are known to be unreliable. Same with straw polls.

Here’s some legislation that makes sense to me regardless of opinion from the horses mouth. HR 1583. It repeals some or all of the 1945 McCarran-Ferguson Act, which exempts the insurance industry from anti-trust laws. Here’s the link;
http://www.ifebp.org/Resources/News/Regulatory+Updates/CRS+Report+Insurance.htm

[sd_matt]

[quote=SK in CV][quote=sd_matt]”….70% of doctors polled in a Tipp/IBD poll 2 weeks ago opposed it, 45% said they would retire or quit the profession….”

Quite the disparity.

But who is Tipp/IBD? Ah here we go…http://www.tipponline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=3

Lets see what I can find from Gallup or Pew…[/quote]

I saw that a few weeks ago, and a few things jumped out at me.

First, the poll was done by mail. Highly unusual for scientific polls. I couldn’t find the margin of error (I confess I didn’t look real hard) but I suspect it’s pretty high.

Second, it said “responses are still coming in”. Huh? How can they publish poll results when they don’t have a completed poll? Most any respected pollster will confirm this is both highly unusual and dubious.

Third, at least one of the questions is atrocious: “Do you believe the government can cover 47 million more people and it will cost less money and the quality of care will be better?”. Good pollsters ask one question at a time. That’s arguably three questions. Otherwise it’s impossible to know which question the respondents are answering. It’s a useless poll question.

And lastly, IBD/Tipp sounded familiar, so I looked. This is the same organization that had the presidential election a year ago a virtual dead heat 11 days before the election, with an astounding almost 12% undecided. More than double any other poll. They also had McCain winning the 18-24 demographic by a whopping 74 to 22% margin. According to the NY Times, just 11 days later, Obama won that demographic by a margin of 66 to 32%.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6m0u0rGkVnc/SQHbXTSsGZI/AAAAAAAAAKg/F8o56ruvWXw/s1600-h/smltrackpoll102408.gif

As a professional polling organization, IBD/TIPP sucks. Which explains why their poll results are so different than others.[/quote]

Yeah I didn’t catch that. Mail polls are known to be unreliable. Same with straw polls.

Here’s some legislation that makes sense to me regardless of opinion from the horses mouth. HR 1583. It repeals some or all of the 1945 McCarran-Ferguson Act, which exempts the insurance industry from anti-trust laws. Here’s the link;
http://www.ifebp.org/Resources/News/Regulatory+Updates/CRS+Report+Insurance.htm

[sd_matt]

“….70% of doctors polled in a Tipp/IBD poll 2 weeks ago opposed it, 45% said they would retire or quit the profession….”

Quite the disparity.

But who is Tipp/IBD? Ah here we go…http://www.tipponline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=3

Lets see what I can find from Gallup or Pew…

[sd_matt]

“….70% of doctors polled in a Tipp/IBD poll 2 weeks ago opposed it, 45% said they would retire or quit the profession….”

Quite the disparity.

But who is Tipp/IBD? Ah here we go…http://www.tipponline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=3

Lets see what I can find from Gallup or Pew…

[sd_matt]

“….70% of doctors polled in a Tipp/IBD poll 2 weeks ago opposed it, 45% said they would retire or quit the profession….”

Quite the disparity.

But who is Tipp/IBD? Ah here we go…http://www.tipponline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=3

Lets see what I can find from Gallup or Pew…

[sd_matt]

“….70% of doctors polled in a Tipp/IBD poll 2 weeks ago opposed it, 45% said they would retire or quit the profession….”

Quite the disparity.

But who is Tipp/IBD? Ah here we go…http://www.tipponline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=3

Lets see what I can find from Gallup or Pew…

[sd_matt]

“….70% of doctors polled in a Tipp/IBD poll 2 weeks ago opposed it, 45% said they would retire or quit the profession….”

Quite the disparity.

But who is Tipp/IBD? Ah here we go…http://www.tipponline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=3

Lets see what I can find from Gallup or Pew…

[sd_matt]

So the question becomes What do the providers and doctors say in common?

[sd_matt]

So the question becomes What do the providers and doctors say in common?

[sd_matt]

So the question becomes What do the providers and doctors say in common?

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