Comments on: Newt’s Reform Ideas 1 — Stop Paying the Crooks http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2009/07/29/newts-reform-ideas-1/ a physician looks at medicine, religion, politics, pets, & passion in life Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:17:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DirtyJobsGuy http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2009/07/29/newts-reform-ideas-1/comment-page-1/#comment-12540 DirtyJobsGuy Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:50:46 +0000 http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2009/07/29/newts-reform-ideas-1/#comment-12540 I'm a small business man, in an engineering consulting firm that sells diagnositic and troubleshooting services. In a sense we sell fee-for service products much like an MD (and tests and scans as well). I also buy medical insurance for the firm. My first conclusion is that most medical bills (as in MD hourly charges) are pretty tightly constrained for the experience/services provided. This is based on my rates/costs for providing my services. My second conclusion is that I have a very limited market for obtaining health insurance for our firm ( I’m a small business man, in an engineering consulting firm that sells diagnositic and troubleshooting services. In a sense we sell fee-for service products much like an MD (and tests and scans as well). I also buy medical insurance for the firm.

My first conclusion is that most medical bills (as in MD hourly charges) are pretty tightly constrained for the experience/services provided. This is based on my rates/costs for providing my services.

My second conclusion is that I have a very limited market for obtaining health insurance for our firm (

]]> By: Newt’s Reform Ideas - 1b: More on Fraud | The Doctor Is In http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2009/07/29/newts-reform-ideas-1/comment-page-1/#comment-12539 Newt’s Reform Ideas - 1b: More on Fraud | The Doctor Is In Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:43:11 +0000 http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2009/07/29/newts-reform-ideas-1/#comment-12539 [...] RSS The weakness of all Utopias is this: that they take the greatest difficulty of man and assume it to be overcome, and then give an elaborate account of the overcoming of the smaller ones. They first assume that no man will want more than his share, and then are very ingenious in explaining whether his share will be delivered by motorcar or balloon. --G.K. Chesterton-- ← Newt’s Reform Ideas 1 — Stop Paying the Crooks [...] [...] RSS The weakness of all Utopias is this: that they take the greatest difficulty of man and assume it to be overcome, and then give an elaborate account of the overcoming of the smaller ones. They first assume that no man will want more than his share, and then are very ingenious in explaining whether his share will be delivered by motorcar or balloon. –G.K. Chesterton– ← Newt’s Reform Ideas 1 — Stop Paying the Crooks [...]

]]> By: Joe http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2009/07/29/newts-reform-ideas-1/comment-page-1/#comment-12537 Joe Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:13:55 +0000 http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2009/07/29/newts-reform-ideas-1/#comment-12537 As a former medical coder, I can vouch for what you say. If the feds can find any possible way to make something more complicated than it has to be, they'll use it. And they want to run health care? Mercy! As a former medical coder, I can vouch for what you say.

If the feds can find any possible way to make something more complicated than it has to be, they’ll use it.

And they want to run health care?

Mercy!

]]> By: Tom L http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2009/07/29/newts-reform-ideas-1/comment-page-1/#comment-12535 Tom L Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:43:29 +0000 http://docisinblog.com/index.php/2009/07/29/newts-reform-ideas-1/#comment-12535 Newt has an innovative solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong. In a way, he scares me more than Obama, whose ideas are neither neat nor plausible; so as his shine wears off, they're increasingly recognized as wrong. Don't get me wrong, I like Newt. He's always interesting, and he's good at countering lefty idiocy. But he belongs with the other wonks, on C-SPAN or in National Review. You know, some place harmless. Keep him the heck away from Congress and the White House. Newt has an innovative solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong. In a way, he scares me more than Obama, whose ideas are neither neat nor plausible; so as his shine wears off, they’re increasingly recognized as wrong.

Don’t get me wrong, I like Newt. He’s always interesting, and he’s good at countering lefty idiocy. But he belongs with the other wonks, on C-SPAN or in National Review. You know, some place harmless. Keep him the heck away from Congress and the White House.

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