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To: Road Walker who wrote (225001)	3/19/2005 2:27:17 PM
From: 10K a day	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571821

>I think one difference is competition; because third parties end up paying the medical bills, not end users, the normal market pressures to provide a better product at reduced cost are not as stron Part of it is a FACAD..... If u have 229,000 new jobs that are essentially laborer or roofer in high risk jobs ...(sit down help desk jobs are going over seas u know).... THEN of course the cost to treat those injured (ladder climbing) workers is going to go up. And if u further take the moneys set aside to treat the injured workers (by state mandate) and don't get the interest on that money and put the interest God KNOWS where. and the 'revolving fund' doesn't revolve anywhere but in to the 'general fund' that the governors henchmen have set up. Well. Then u can basically say whatever u want if your a third party carrier. And nobody can TRACK the money. (IF YOUR A CARRIER) U basically stop paying the provider. You basically stop approving anything. You basically try to make the entire system shrivel up and die. (I'm talking about California here) Then you scream bloody murder that the overall cost to treat the patients has gone up when people moving to california in droves (from mexico asia and cold climates). Which is normally what u would expect .... and then u can't figure out why the provider is so pissed off and have their back to the wall paying off their HUGE EQUIPMENT loan that they took out when the IRS let them EXPENSE OFF BIG amounts of everything. YOU can't figure out why the PROVIDER IS FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIFE and they totally pissed off what has gone on in the SMOKEY room back office dealings at the GOVERNORS office. Oh well. Forget it.

To: Road Walker who wrote (225001)	3/19/2005 2:59:03 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571821

because third parties end up paying the medical bills, not end users, the normal market pressures to provide a better product at reduced cost are not as strong. That is very much a factor in medicine, or anything involving insurance in the payment loop. What I was referring to is a different effect. Look a teachers. Fundamentally, there jobs have not changed much over time. A teacher faces a class of students for about an hour. Technology has not changed this fact much, although conceivable it could. In fact technology has most likely added to the cost of education, since computers must be replaced and software updated quite rapidly, so teaching such fields requires additional capitol expenditures.