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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent?

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To: The Wharf who wrote (23113)5/8/2005 12:41:29 PM
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>>When you have numerous products originating from higher cost port areas if will affect the interior of the nation<<<

I would compare it to a Physical therapy office in Palo Alto that decides for some strange reason to treat Medi Cal patients.....

They can make 28 bucks a visit and wait 5-6 months for their money....and their rent is prob 8,000 a month. with salaries the overhead prob approaches 25 grand/mo.

Another clinic in rural californa can make 28 bucks a visit off of a medi cal patient and pay only 1500 a month rent.

Both places are STILL going broke. One might go broke faster. But the federal government. and the state government. Isn't about to bail anyone out.

Private insurance and workers' compensation just decided to by pass the California prompt payment laws and decided not to pay AT ALL. There is no checks and balances that force them to pay. the clinic can sue the insurance company in small claims and recover basically what they would have been paid in 1982. Yes. That's right. 1982.

Rent has gone up a little since 1982.

the center of the universe is always where we are standing. right now i think the light is shining somewhere else.

You know. Companies like IBM and GM and GE i think have a big problem with pensions and workers' compensation going forward.

I think it's a huge house of cards that peter is borrowing from paul to pay judas. or something.

the legislators have basically taken from the workers' compensation fund and diverted the money to a general fund and declared the system broke. ( at least in california, texas, and arizona.)

the injured worker is stuck on this 200/ month merry go round allowance of medication that is paying for pharmacy salesmen to drive around and buy the doctors lunch.

the injured worker is paid 48 cents a mile to drive to get their medications or to the doctors office and that's prob more than the therapist is making to supply the 10-20 grand/mo of overhead that he can't pay .....

the doctors aren't really happy about it (either) because they know their true gifts are not being offerred and they are being dumbed down by the system that is exploiting the beneficiary that it was designed to protect.

add to that the fact that an injured worker can make more money selling medicinal marijuana then he could ever make working and he can still fight with workers' compensation because they aren't paying him either....

it's a sad state of affairs...

oh well. have a nice day darleen.
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