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crank wrote:Agrippina wrote:purplerat wrote:crank wrote:
If I understand it correctly, it might be better to say the companies have to sell policies that are state specific, because they are still regulated by state law, the federal law sits atop the states' laws, mandated minimum coverages and other restrictions and requirements,. The companies cannot sell a plan to anyone that isn't a resident of the state. If you are traveling, you are still covered, but could likely face difficulties if you don't get all kinds of shit preapproved. Like, if you're not unconscious, get approval before you get in an ambulance, if having a heart attack, get approval before you so to a hospital. It'll be even worse if you out of country. I don't know about moving to another state, not sure how that would work.
Yes that is how I understand it.
The getting approval part though, for many you have to do that no matter where you are. It's not like having insurance in X state means you can just go to any doctor in that state. At least that's not the way it works for many.
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That's one one of the arguments for not allowing insurance to be sold across state lines; that doing so would exasperate that situation whereby it would be harder for people to get approval even within their own state as they would be dealing with an out of state agency to find local access.
This is what baffles me. Everything is on computer today, so shouldn't all healthcare insurers be in every health facility's database so it can be accessed when someone is out of their state. That's how ours works, except if we're overseas. Then we produce our insurance card to show that we are covered, it's recorded on the account, but we pay upfront, then claim when we return, or even by email while we're away. I haven't had to use it personally. When I dislocated my shoulder in Scotland, I just put it in a sling, and dealt with it when I got back home. We have travel insurance up to R1m for illness or injury abroad, if we buy the ticket with a credit card, automatic, with no charge. They'll even pay for a family member to visit or to help you travel back home. I didn't think of using this with my shoulder. I think in the UK if you visit an A&E centre as a traveller, you don't pay. I might be wrong about that.
When we travel within the country, the health provider just puts in the details on the computer, and gets authorisation from the insurer and we either have a co-payment or not, depending on the service. For teeth for example, there is a small co-payment. For everything else, we've never paid in anything. I had my cataracts done in January, at a cost of about R50,000 without paying anything. Last year I needed a new tooth to replace one that had fallen out, I paid in R180 on a cost of a few thousand. We could give up our insurance but that would mean going to government hospitals, and waiting for treatment that isn't an emergency. So for my eyes, I wouldn't have had to pay, but would've had to wait for years for my turn. My kids' dad needed a pacemaker. He got it on the government, immediately, and at no cost because he was a state pensioner, with no insurance.
There's all kinds of shoulda about our health care system. I've had to go to a lot of office visits with my mom lately, and they make her fill out forms everywhere with the same info, over and over, it's absurd. There's been a big push to standardize all of this crap, and that seems to have hardly made a dent at most clinics/offices/hospitals. What we're doing to ourselves is insane, it really is that simple. This can be seen by how often you hear about how the US has the best health care in the world, blatantly, patently false, but a big percentage of people swear it's so. Even as they pay twice as much for much less care, and much worse outcomes.
crank wrote:That would be YUGE. You know, you can't actually read the whole series of tweets when it's a breaking/trending event? It's been 2 hours, why isn't there a anything on CNN? You'd think if one of their own guys had something like that, they'd put something up prominently enough to see quickly on their site? I didn't see anything, but did learn that Jay Z has found the perfect suitcase. Thanks,CNN
The US Senate has just voted to overturn the internet privacy rules that were established by the Federal Communications Commission last October. That means that your internet service provider (ISP) can now sell your browsing history to advertisers, and no they don't need your permission to do so.
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The bill was introduced by Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, he said he wanted to protect the public from "overreaching Internet regulation." He pointed out that under the FCC rules, ISPs would have different rules to follow than large companies like Google and Facebook, who can share some aspects of your search history.
Agrippina wrote:It's going to be interesting to see what happens to Discovery when the government does come up with a national health system. They'll possibly give the system to them to run, buy them out as it were, turning them into government employees.
Scot Dutchy wrote:Agrippina wrote:It's going to be interesting to see what happens to Discovery when the government does come up with a national health system. They'll possibly give the system to them to run, buy them out as it were, turning them into government employees.
Well here they scrapped the department of health and gave the work of collecting and selling insurance to the insurance companies. These companies have to have the basic insurance packet as agreed upon by the health system anything else they sell is their profit. They have proved far more efficient than the government department.
Tero wrote:Agrippina, crank et al:
It's been nearly impossible to do anything federal here. No ID card, no gun permit. The passport is, and as an offshoot you can get domestic or international card that days you are no risk on flights.
Social security cards are paper with no photo. Even a Medicare card is a huge step for IDs. Some libertarians off the grid will not get them.
Agrippina wrote:Scot Dutchy wrote:Agrippina wrote:It's going to be interesting to see what happens to Discovery when the government does come up with a national health system. They'll possibly give the system to them to run, buy them out as it were, turning them into government employees.
Well here they scrapped the department of health and gave the work of collecting and selling insurance to the insurance companies. These companies have to have the basic insurance packet as agreed upon by the health system anything else they sell is their profit. They have proved far more efficient than the government department.
I'm a little on the fence about what I'd like to see. I know the hospitals were great in the past, I'd like to see them return to that level of efficiency. Right now it's all over the place with nurses being trained in "colleges" where the training isn't standardised to the level it was in the past. So a nurse from "fly by night college" will definitely not be as good as one who's done a BA in nursing at a university, and I think, the casually-trained one is a danger to patients. The one with the university degree might have the knowledge, but not the practical experience of the casually-trained one. So I don't know. We'll see what they come up with.
Donald Trump printed out made-up £300bn Nato invoice and handed it to Angela Merkel
Scot Dutchy wrote:Agrippina wrote:Scot Dutchy wrote:Agrippina wrote:It's going to be interesting to see what happens to Discovery when the government does come up with a national health system. They'll possibly give the system to them to run, buy them out as it were, turning them into government employees.
Well here they scrapped the department of health and gave the work of collecting and selling insurance to the insurance companies. These companies have to have the basic insurance packet as agreed upon by the health system anything else they sell is their profit. They have proved far more efficient than the government department.
I'm a little on the fence about what I'd like to see. I know the hospitals were great in the past, I'd like to see them return to that level of efficiency. Right now it's all over the place with nurses being trained in "colleges" where the training isn't standardised to the level it was in the past. So a nurse from "fly by night college" will definitely not be as good as one who's done a BA in nursing at a university, and I think, the casually-trained one is a danger to patients. The one with the university degree might have the knowledge, but not the practical experience of the casually-trained one. So I don't know. We'll see what they come up with.
Well all our hospitals became foundations and are strictly controlled by the health inspectorate. The same is true of all medical qualifications. Nurses are taught at third level colleges and qualify to BA level after four years. They can go onto a MA college degree. They can go on to university and do a doctors degree. Only doctors go university. A BA is not acceptable as a qualification for anything except working for companies dealing with sickness reports of employees of a branch of commerce (keuring artsen). They cant issue prescriptions. The rest are internationally accepted levels in medical science.
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Calilasseia wrote:Meanwhile, in other news ... Internet privacy has just been kicked in the balls ...The US Senate has just voted to overturn the internet privacy rules that were established by the Federal Communications Commission last October. That means that your internet service provider (ISP) can now sell your browsing history to advertisers, and no they don't need your permission to do so.
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The bill was introduced by Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, he said he wanted to protect the public from "overreaching Internet regulation." He pointed out that under the FCC rules, ISPs would have different rules to follow than large companies like Google and Facebook, who can share some aspects of your search history.
The aptly named Senator Flake: "I want to protect the public from overreaching internet regulation".
Translation into honest English: "I want to protect money-grubbing corporations from greed regulation".
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ronmcd wrote:Donald Trump printed out made-up £300bn Nato invoice and handed it to Angela Merkel
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 50636.html
That's AMAZING. I think we've moved beyond being out of his depth into mental illness.
Robert Mercer is a little-known hedge-fund billionaire who, along with his daughter Rebekah, played a key role first in making Trump a candidate, and then in shaping his White House staff. Jane Mayer is the first to file an in-depth report on the elusive figure. She’s a staff writer for The New Yorker and author of several award-winning and bestselling books. Her latest, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, was named one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times
JW: Let’s talk about that political project. You say Robert Mercer basically never speaks, nevertheless you were able to find out quite a lot about his political ideas. What does Robert Mercer say about racism in the United States?
JM: He believes that white racism doesn’t exist in America. He says there’s only black racism. He says that the civil-rights movement has made blacks less well off. He thinks that the Civil Rights Act was one of the great mistakes in modern American history.
JW: What does he say about the dangers of nuclear war?
JM: He got into an argument with somebody he worked with in which he argued that Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and nuclear war in general, were not as bad as people think. It’s survivable, he argues, and not only that; the radiation from it, he suggests, from the fallout, is good for people. He’d say, “Well, you know, in the blast zone it wasn’t so great for the Japanese,” but outside of the blast zone, he would claim, it was great for the Japanese health.
JW: And you have a fascinating story about what he says about the value of cats.
JM: He has, according to his colleagues, a theory of humans which is that they have no inherent value. That a human being is only worth as much as they can earn. He argues that he earns thousands of times more than a school teacher, which makes him that much more valuable than school teachers. And people on welfare, he suggests, have no value. They have negative value. He argues, though, that cats have value—because watching them provides pleasure to people.
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