birdog1960

and that fact begs the question even more. the pieces were available to have a good bills offensive line (arguably as good as the afc champs) yet they were abysmal. who is to blame ?

going to the superbowl with the improved steelers line. think he may have helped the bills offensive tackle problems this year? never a whiff from a team with a glaring need...why not?

um , no. for the most part, the laws are already on the books. they just aren't being enforced. enforcement efforts would bring in much more in savings than the their marginal costs. really, how difficult would it be to go after scooter companies that coach patients on what to say or organized crime backed medical supply companies out of florida that anyone can clearly see are crooks? it's not that hard. it only requires the will of the populace and gov't. some unfortunately want their "free" hot water bottles, mattress pads and scooters. they need to be told "no" just like those demanding futile care.

ya mean it's really not fair and balanced...shocked i tell ya, just shocked!!! and it would be interesting in a real debate setting but on fox? or any of the networks except pbs? unfathomable. pbs has the only tv news worth watching. too bad so few realize this...

how bout we just fix the fraud. the reason self pay won't work is that almost no one can afford catastrophic care...and there needs to be an entity with gravitas that represents the populace to decide when those massive expenditures are justified.

amazing...common ground. i've spent many hours this month changing prescriptions to fit some mega mail -in insurance pharmacy profit center's ever changing formulary. i.e.: working to make them money. no benefit to the patient or me (i'm not reimbursed for any of this) and possibly harm to the patients. what oc seems to discount is that i see a huge volume of patients-there really isn't much more capacity in my practice and this stuff makes capacity even less. i'm actually heartened to see the overnight dearth of drug reps as they're finally recognized as unneccessary and probably harmful to the provision of cost effective care. i would love a national formulary, similar to the VA's. there's no evidence outcomes are improved with unlimited formulary choices and at least then, inclusions would be based on medical evidence as well as cost. in a previous thread i reached agreement with many posters (including you i believe) that administrative costs for medicare are significantly below current private insurance plans. why should this not hold true a single payer plan. 10's or even 100's of thousands of paper pushing private insurance jobs could be eliminated. all middleman profit removed. the devils in the details. malpractice reform must also occur. right now, the insurance companies can refuse care (hospital days, drugs, diagnostic procedures etc without any liability risk while padding their profits and without reducing my risk. when the government starts rationing, my risk has to be minimized if i stay within guidelines and i believe it would be. nevertheless, it can't be much worse than the current situation. at least i'd be taking on the risk while providing care more equitably.

sad but true

i might be interested in the sub. pm me what you're asking if you'd be willing to ship. how big a room do you think it will fill?

there's a trading forum on AVS forum with lots of high end stuff and good traffic.

this has been used ad nauseum on this board as a reason not to sign free agents. the fact is that the redskins, as bad as they've been, have been to the playoffs twice in the last 10 years. that's much better than none and i'd trade their last 10 years for ours.

perhaps the criticism is a bit harsh...but then, so is the music

i think it also has to do with the consideration of only one or two possibilities to explain findings. many explanations are not even imagined much less analyzed. for example, one option to agreeing or disagreeing with him (that he apparently didn't consider) is ignoring him. superficial analyses are almost always incorrect or at the very least, incomplete.

a rough guidline is to take your age and subtract it from 100. that's the starting point for percentage of savings in stocks. the rest should usually be consevatively invested in bonds or money markets etc (unless you have a big cushion for retirement). i like index funds for stocks as the fees are low and they beat managed funds about 70% of the time but stock picking really amounts to gambling in todays market. why not try your hand at the stock picking game over at ppp (2011 stock picking thread) and get some free practice?

i'm guessing you missed the point, which is to get as many people as possible immunized for pertussis, now included in the Tdap vaccine. people usually unquestioningly accept the need for tetanus shots but are generally ignorant to the need for protection from pertussis. this is a strategy around that problem.

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you really aren't very bright, are you?

it does affect me. i'm over the threshold for family and individual income for the highest bracket and have benefited much more from the continuation of the bush tax cuts (which i opposed) than i ever will benefit from "obamacare" changes. I suspect that you frequently draw conclusions from insufficient data as you have here. i feel sorry for your employers if that's truly the case.

i was going to rebut you but that lowers me to your level and makes a silly competition over earnings. so i'll just ask: if i made 150k a year would that make me less of a doctor to you? don't answer, i really don't care. do you think i was forced to go into a lower paying specialty? that i couldn't set up a concierge practice in an affluent area (i don't believe it would be fair or compassionate- whether you believe in altruism or not)? don't answer you'd be wrong.

saw her on "the mighty uke" documentary film last night (highly recommended). she practices while driving to shows while steering with her knees. a little quirky but that's good, non?

hmmm, i'm guessing that public comment on any rules enacted will mostly be voiced by speculators and large investors, not the "public" as the republican chairman of the committee states. i'm not betting on the outcome being good for the small investor, much less the cost of food and oil after reading this article.... more of the same.

yup that's me, a "low end doctor", my value determined by really high end, smart folks like you . your post is so misguided, ungrounded, inflammatory, and uninformed that it deserves no further reply.

saw this duet on a british new years eve show (they're from alabama) old timey, everly bros like. if they make it big, it will be on their voices.

and you'd be wrong if winning consistently, or even more often than losing were significant factors in your criteria.

yeah, i read the comments after the article too. just because they were wrong to not condemn ethanol from corn (and they were) doesn't mean they're wrong about this.