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To: ahhaha who wrote (24274)	7/28/2000 11:43:36 PM
From: Solid	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 29970

If you can't refute them, then I would submit that our society is in serious trouble whatever the material appearances present. Your submission would be readily acceptable to me. One up close and personal with ‘the system’. I am crushed daily with the ‘health care industry' fiasco. I am an honest practitioner. I exchange large quantities of professional time, with a personal touch to all my patients. For one very good, very ethical reason-IT WORKS, people get better. Our service is time and labor intensive. Enter the third party payor. They spout the line for John Q. to hook them on 'their' premium schedule and could care less about quality of care except how services approved or rejected effect their bottom line. 'If' I were to cut time short, use modalities and assistants, spent more of my time fishing, I could make more money and the insurers would gladly pay provided the forms are properly filled out. I'd save on my time, expensive licensed professional salaries, billing would be very easy and I’d have more ‘free’ time. What a joke. I would not be able to sleep at night knowing living breathing human beings may not be getting the care they could get because I want more money and more time to myself. I advertise a health service, should I not deliver on the highest care possible shame on me. We deliver a service that empowers people to help themselves find and maintain health and to prevent injury. We benefit the third party payors by lowering present and future cost for them by helping their ensured get and stay well, often avoiding costly invasive care. As it stands, every time I find codes to bill for the time I and my therapists spend doing hands-on work, within a few months they disqualify the codes and lump them together as one code and thus pay for 1/2, 1/3, or none of the service. It is a game many tire of. We may bill; they are not obligated to pay. They set the rules. We follow them. We organize and fight them, a little action in the state house, a little ranting on The Hill and not much changes. This speaks nothing of the dishonest providers or people squeezing 'the system'. Back to the big picture. How do you legislate honesty and integrity? The dishonest will find ways around it. The system then becomes mired in 'laws' and the truly honest become saddled with bureaucracy, red tape and restrictions on personal freedoms. I believe our forefathers were sharp folk. I also believed that they esteemed and held sacred an allegiance to the integrity of our democracy foundationed upon personal responsibility toward our 'fragile' government. Sly, slick, selfish and greedy was not the order of the day. We have strayed a bit for sure. The implication is you should storm the bastille. I do everyday. I do it the way I think you do and Grace and others here, with personal and professional integrity. One moment at a time, one battle at a time, one demon at a time. The gain? In order, joy, victory over hardship and suffering and freedom to be content within self, knowing one has done a good job...fighting the good fight. Who wants to picket ATHM HQ? If I lived near there I'd certainly plan a visit. Since you don't you accept the current situation and thus you must accept what peanut the gods throw in your direction. I rant and rave and poke dark humor at the false gods on these boards. And grudgingly accept the peanuts...for now. Though it reinforces the correctness of how I conduct my business, for I and many of my patients enjoy a 'success' that these clowns may never know. We have a system and it works. Hope you understand why the 20th century was dedicated to making sure anything good isn't "just a giveaway to the rich". The masses are becoming more affluent. The ideology of 'the giveaway to the rich' may fall this century as the new Mom and Pops realize they are funding the giveaways, boondoggle programs and the very politicians who reach into their pockets. But truly, behind it all our private agendas are what maintain the flasehoods and rifts which strain our system and all worldly systems. Remember, the mill wheel of God grinds exceedingly slow, but exceedingly fine. Thus, 'To thine own self be true and it shall follow, as night the day that thou can not be false to any man.' And, 'The answer to man's problems oft within himself due lie, but which he ascribes...to heaven.' Ah, William S. I am very concerned that the inside politics of T/ATHM/et al are suspect. That perhaps the conspiracy theories floating around about Cox/CC/T have some validity. Now, Shaw. Politically correct or not REAL MEN do not eat Quiche, silicon or otherwise.