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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index

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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (199876)5/3/2009 3:33:20 PM
From: i-nodeRead Replies (1) of 306849
 

"wouldn't ever" has a very specific meaning.

again, 100% proof your original statement was wrong.


Okay. I can't argue about that. I should have said, "That happens so infrequently that the number is literally immaterial, amounting to something like 0.00001% of the policies in California". I was wrong.


a very sick person will often choose not to spend $100s of thousands to litigate - that doesn't make the system right.


Well, no person who has a legitimate case would have to spend a nickel to litigate; there are dozens of attorneys waiting to press any claim. The sicker they are the more compelling any such litigation would be. Hell, we now have litigation specialists for almost every medical specialty. If you've had Lung Cancer, call us. If you've had live trouble, call someone else.

i think you are biased because you make a living off the insurance industry.

Actually, I'm biased because I have done this for a lot of years and have a better understanding of these issues than the average guy.

I don't make a living off the insurance industry. My customers are physicians, and my living is going to be just fine regardless of which direction this goes. Whatever happens, software in medical practices is going to get bigger and more expensive, not less important.

Don't get me wrong; I think some minor modifications are needed, but anything more than "minor modifications" would involve risk to wrecking a system that works exceptionally well for the vast majority of individuals.

80% of Americans are satisfied with the quality of their health care, according to a recent CNN poll.. That's a pretty respectable figure in the face of politicians who are chronically bitching about our health care system.

It is important to realize that American health care is basically responsible for the vast majority of innovation in health care. There are exceptions. But the top five US hospitals stage more clinical trials than ALL the hospitals in other country. And most important innovations in health care come from the United States.

People had better consider these facts before they start throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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