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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (36261)	4/28/2014 9:50:19 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 42652

No, Muslim names. And while some of them might have been Indian, they certainly all weren't. says something about the intellect and ambition of our American students Says something about the openness of our society also. And your comment says something about the liberal disdain and contempt for their fellow citizens. if Medicaid says they are, they are I looked in a few sites, none of which were official .gov type sites. I actually don't see any Medicaid site of that sort.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (36261)	4/28/2014 10:46:46 AM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

My son has been on a Medicaid insurance plan for years. When he has needed a new provider, I go look in its online directory. I assure you, even when I select for "accepts new patients" the first thing I tell them is he has HUSKY insurance and do they accept new patients. They don't always. i-node is correct. 96 or whatever it was seems excessive, perhaps, but not entirely unbelievable. "A 2011 Rutgers University study estimates that 100,000 more New Jersey residents will be eligible for Medicaid in 2014, which currently covers about 1.3 million people. That’s about a 7.7 percent increase in people eligible." politifact.com So, perhaps 1.3 million people in a state of close to 8.9 million people were on a Medicaid health insurance plan before Obamacare, or roughly 15% of the population. The doctors in NJ probably had all the Medicaid patients they could afford on their books. the medical community is not going to turn away millions of new customers..... Doctors lose money on every Medicaid patient they treat. But they'll make it up in volume, right?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (36261)	4/28/2014 11:51:19 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By Brumar89 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

>> Some may have set a limit for themselves as to the number they will accept with Medicaid but by and large, the medical community is not going to turn away millions of new customers..... Analogy....consider an airliner with only 80% of the seats sold.... Dude, you totally don't get it. You don't discount a product, ANY product, below its marginal cost. Airliners will discount seats but never below the marginal cost of the seat. Ever. If they can get $1 more than marginal cost they are better off with someone sitting in it. But they're not going to sell a seat for $99 if the incremental cost to them of selling that seat is $100. You're an engineer; this should not be that complicated for you.