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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (478242)	5/6/2009 12:11:36 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576163

>> See where we fit.... Sorry, I was referring to survival rates. Not the rate at which people get cancer (you should keep in mind that higher cancer rates may be indicative of better diagnostic tools). I'm thinking you're really not getting the idea here. >> We also have more than 47 million people without insurance...is that 5%?? Actually, this is a liberal lie. The 47 million figure is actually dated; the current figure is about 43 million. But that's just the starting point for the lie. About 15 million of these 43 million are eligible for medicaid and other state funded coverage and have not bothered to enroll. About 18 million of the remaining 28 million are aged 18-24 without insurance. Out of this group, more than half spend 5x as much on eating out and entertainment as they do on health care; obviously, they can afford health care and, being relatively healthy, simply choose to spend their money in other ways. More than half of 18 million is somewhere between 9-10 million. We'll call it 10 million, which leaves 16 million. 5.2%. Even this figure would be lower if you removed the illegals who simply choose to avoid the system. When you boil it down, about 5% truly are uninsured due to reasons other than choosing not to spend their money that way or choosing not to enroll in programs available to them. MRI's and Cscan's are big money makers for med groups... Go in with a complaint and the odds are very good that you going to get one or both before you can change your mind....they run at least two shifts a day....so don't be so naive.. Other than ERs, you will not find imaging centers running two shifts. The notable exception is when those centers are selling services for self-paying patients like full body scans, which are generally not considered medically necessary. You really don't know what you're talking about, however. Physicians, by law, cannot receive any payments for referrals of Medicare or Medicaid beneficiaries -- to imaging centers or anywhere else. Diagnostic imaging has been the biggest single target of this law. Furthermore, physicians ordering tests performed at any outside facility (lab, x-ray, pathology, whatever) cannot mark those tests up if they bill directly for them. Organizations running imaging centers and referring to those centers have to be very careful to avoid running afoul of the federal laws against self-referrals. >> Let's see you put some numbers on your claims.. I have no problems putting numbers on anything that is quantifiable; this is my living, and it is my business to know what the numbers are. But it really doesn't matter; you'll argue about it anyway. I really can't recall you ever posting a well-reasoned argument about anything here. To be honest about it.