My own bad news is that I just (a week or two ago) got the anesthesiologist's bill for my operation last November. First I've heard of it. OTOH, yesterday I got a bill for something last August, which I have no idea about, but the amount sounds like a bill I got a couple of months ago which I never could figure out what it was for. This one has more clues, so when I have the time & am in the mood, I'll play phone tag.
People who can't understand that single-payer is the only sensible answer either have so much money it doesn't matter to them, haven't been sick, o/r/ a/r/e/ t/o/o/ d/u/m/b/ t/o/ l/i/v/e/.
For a small egoboo point: Years ago I was talking about the revolution in American medicine. Only historians remember the ferocious fight near the end of the Nineteenth Century over who would get to define medicine. Effectively, the AMA won, and they got to decide if something was medicine or not. Today, the operational definition of medicine is what insurance covers. So, for instance, "alternative" practitioners lobby the insurance industry to be reimbursable, and ignore the medical establishment.
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Date: 2008-03-07 05:53 pm (UTC)OTOH, yesterday I got a bill for something last August, which I have no idea about, but the amount sounds like a bill I got a couple of months ago which I never could figure out what it was for. This one has more clues, so when I have the time & am in the mood, I'll play phone tag.
People who can't understand that single-payer is the only sensible answer either have so much money it doesn't matter to them, haven't been sick, o/r/ a/r/e/ t/o/o/ d/u/m/b/ t/o/ l/i/v/e/.
For a small egoboo point: Years ago I was talking about the revolution in American medicine. Only historians remember the ferocious fight near the end of the Nineteenth Century over who would get to define medicine. Effectively, the AMA won, and they got to decide if something was medicine or not. Today, the operational definition of medicine is what insurance covers. So, for instance, "alternative" practitioners lobby the insurance industry to be reimbursable, and ignore the medical establishment.