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Why couldn’t there simply have been a requirement that discriminatory charging be stopped. Same service, same charge, regardless of insurance status, as long as it’s paid in a timely manner.

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There’s no guarantee that they’ll be paid other than historical precedent made during less fractious times. Which is depressing because I have close family who are affected.

It would be extremely stupid and nasty for the Reps to block payment, but stupidity and pettiness seem to be the orders of the day today.

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FlyerInHI – we actually agree on this one 🙂 I actually think there would have been LESS hatred for a public option, since it would have been an expanded public service (there’s precedent for that) rather than being forced to buy a product from one of the more corrupt private industries that exists today.

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So Obama extends the employer mandate by a year unilaterally and thats fine.

No employer mandate + individual mandate is a GOOD thing. It would push more people onto the exchanges, and subsidies, which would finally break the connection between employment and insurance for good.

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The longer this goes on, the larger the chances of Obamacare being repealed AND the public being enraged enough to make both houses blue come 2014. Two blue houses + Obama = a fighting change to pass a true national health insurance scheme with the private insurance companies cut out of providing basic coverage entirely. (They’d still be able to provide supplemental “Medigap” type policies.)

I’d call that a WIN! Hope the anti-public-insurance types dig their own grave here.

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I don’t see anything unethical about it.

Speaking from New York, Manhattan really doesn’t have a functional MLS (or at least one that most brokers agree to use). Most apartments for sale are listed in the real estate section of the Times, and brokers having open houses every weekend or just showing apartments to whoever happens to call (regardless of whether they bring a broker) is pretty common.

There are more dual-agency sales, and FSBOs tend to also end up in the Times, so it levels the playing field between by-broker and FSBO. If SD gradually moved to a non-MLS system, it would actually be good for everyone except perhaps the brokers, who’d no longer have as much of a monopoly.

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I’ve seen quite a few short sales in the last few years (including 1-2 recently) that immediately went onto MLS as contingent. Broker lists them under market, gets a “friend” to make an offer, friend buys it and flips it for 1.5x the price a few months later, gives broker a kickback.

Unethical and illegal as hell, but real-estate is a crooked game.

As far as regular sales, if the broker can find a buyer at an acceptable price before it goes to MLS, why wouldn’t they save the MLS listing fees?

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SD Realtor – is that what Papa Doug told you guys?

I never got to meet my grandfather because of this type of nonsense taken to an extreme.

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H. Pylori is 30-40% prevalent in Americans — no need to have picked it up while traveling.

Susceptibility is likely more down to genetics and diet than location. Good that you got rid of it; it’s reputed to cause ulcers, at least in some people.

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Yellen is Vice Chair of the board of governors as a woman. Also, Esther George is on the BoG. Roger Ferguson (Black American) was Vice Chair for a time and was being considered for the chairmanship.

Not that I actually give a flying hoot about diversity for the sake of diversity. Let the best (wo)man get the job — race or gender should not be considerations either way.

Keep in mind that groups that were traditionally under-represented need to rise through the ranks. I’m NOT for promoting someone just to have a token individual of a given race or gender at the top. Equality and balance will come in time, but it has to be a natural process.

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Or sometimes, they do forget or at least are very slow to pay. A year ago, I had some lab work done which insurance didn’t pay for. They said they’d send me an invoice and so far never have.

I’m certainly not going to rush them — they have my address and phone #, and they’ll send it when they’re good and ready, I guess.

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It’s basically a per-visit deductible. If you don’t pay it, you’re not hurting the insurance co; you’re hurting your doctor and his employees.

(Mine happens to be a decent guy, so why would I want to cheat him?)

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I was gently implying that Congress seems to be ON some psychedelic drugs. That’s one of the few good explanations for the Obamacare/budget catfight.

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If this is the beginning of an anti-Semitic rant of some type: Geithner isn’t what you think he is 🙂

Nice try, bozo.

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As far as doctors, I’ve met relatively young ones who were good, old ones who were horrible, and vice versa. Don’t judge only on age.

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