The Government IS the problem !
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On Aug 8, 4:02 pm, LadybugsTX <[email protected]> wrote:
> My folicle reference was a joke. Calm down. So you're saying, in the
> situation you have provided, that government has caused the expense at
> your paticular healthcare facility. You don't have to yell at me.
> You're preaching to the choir.
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> On Aug 8, 10:49 am, RICHARD BROWN <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> > I work in a regional hospital and can attest to the high percentage of
> > third-party payments and the abuse of the system. I don't believe in
> > censorship either. But I think our public school system has created a
> > huge population of ninnies. I don't get TV where I live and have not
> > see 200 hours of it in my entire life, but I am exposed to some of it
> > when I go into a patient's room and see some of the medical ads.
> > An ad for a sleeping medicine warns of some of the side effects..."may
> > cause drowsiness". Oh my! Drowsiness? In my sleep medication?
> > An ad reporting that it is a 50% improvement over not taking it. What
> > they don't tell you is that it costs a lot of money and normally 3 out
> > of 10,000 people with the condition will die from it, but if everyone
> > took it, only 2 out of 10,000 people would die from it.
> > We are being forced to spend $120 million to build a new wing because
> > the 33 beds in the old wing can not have patients after 2012 unless we
> > spend $110 million to retrofit if to meet new earthquake standards.
> > It held up with no problem during the 7.4 earthquake in 1980, but new
> > standards have been ordered. What that amounts to is the government
> > is willing to force us to guarantee that if all the rooms are full and
> > the old wing collapses, the 33 lives of the patients are saved. Do
> > the math....It comes to more than $3 million per patient. And you
> > want to know why things are so expensive?
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> > On Aug 7, 8:46 pm, LadybugsTX <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > Yes, but you have to pay a per folicle tax.
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> > > On Aug 7, 7:30 pm, RichardForbes <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > > Does it grow hair?
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> > > > On Aug 7, 9:29 pm, Travis <[email protected]> wrote:
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