Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (703185)	3/7/2013 6:23:44 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576639

>> And you give advice to young people on retirement plans??// No, that isn't my business. Were I still a CPA, I would be advising young people (as I did when I was in public practice) to use measures to avoid payments into SS. >> So why don't all MD's drop Medicare ????? Where would they get the patients to backfill.??? Mostly, because they're doctors, not managerial accountants. Young patients become old patients, and they don't want to tell someone to hit the road because they turned 65. Physicians are getting out the Medicare business at unprecedented rates. One in five are restricting the number of Medicare patients, and one in three PCPs are limiting the number of Medicare patients, according to a recent survey of 9,000 physicians by AMA. >> There are practices that claim they see 50-100 patients a day per doctor.... I've never seen one and I've dealt with several hundred practices over the last 20 years. While many docs have days where they don't see new patients, physicals, or other time-consuming cases, I don't know of any physicians that see that many patients routinely. Certainly, such a doc would be far behind on charting. It is possible, with the help of a PA or NP, to do this.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (703185)	3/8/2013 12:46:14 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576639

what a goober state Officials: Most NYC High School Grads Need Remedial Help Before Entering CUNY Community CollegesBasic Skills Like Reading, Writing And Math Need To Be Re-Learned NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It’s an education bombshell. Nearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University’s community college system. The number of kids behind the 8-ball is the highest in years, CBS 2's Marcia Kramer reported Thursday. When they graduated from city high schools, students in a special remedial program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College couldn’t make the grade. They had to re-learn basic skills — reading, writing and math — first before they could begin college courses. They are part of a disturbing statistic. Officials told CBS 2's Kramer that nearly 80 percent of those who graduate from city high schools arrived at City University’s community college system without having mastered the skills to do college-level work. In sheer numbers it means that nearly 11,000 kids who got diplomas from city high schools needed remedial courses to re-learn the basics.