Stop getting married at 20 years old.

[Razor Ramon]

When a woman wants to tie you down when you're 19, no good can come from it.


....Oh, I see what you did there. Hilarious.

[Othello Harrington]

When a woman wants to tie you down when you're 19, no good can come from it.


....Oh, I see what you did there. Hilarious.

Your mom's hilarious.

[Razor Ramon]

I always found her quite boring.

[Othello Harrington]

Switch that B with an H and then were talking.

Anywho, punch drunk, gotta go golf.

[stormy]

Biff is the king of zingers

[Fe 26]

Before that Medicare was pretty much a blank check. Doctors charge whatever and get whatever. What you call "fucking doctors" everyone else calls "controlling price". Now I understand your dad's bread and butter is medicine so I can see why you don't like that. But still - setting prices is good policy.

But nowadays other agents, like drug companies, get the blank check. So its still jacked up, just not in the same way.

Medicare has never wrote doctors a blank check. OK, it might have right when it started, but that shit got cut out a long long time ago if that is the case. They have been setting a price for at least the past 20 years. And I even called my mother, who runs the main office for my Dad's clinic to check that.

Doctors are not thieves and bandits. At least for the most part. I'm sure there are some corrupt doctors, but for the most part they are upstanding people, or at least my Dad's generation of doctors are. You don't set up your own practice in a shit hole like Mississippi to get rich. You do it because you care about people.

As for people in medical school now, I don't know. I'd like to think med school is still hard enough to weed out people that really don't want to help people, but I don't know.

Taking that into account, I'd like to think doctors charge fairly (I'm not talking about hospitals though. Fuck hospitals and there $1000+ rooms).

What I mean by Doctors getting fucked by Pre-Medicare Part D is that they are essentially getting paid less to do more work. Someone has to fill all those forms out and someone has to get paid for doing so. I know, some would think "lol those silly greedy doctors" but my Dad owns his own practice, so it is a problem for him. Someone has to pay for that extra BS, and it is usely him.

Personally I think that is a bullshit way to fix things. It fucks over the one person who actually cares about the public and makes him take it up the butt for all the inflated cost caused by drug companies and the like.

Don't get me wrong, my dad isn't bitter over this shit. But he takes Medicare to be helpful to the community. If it was to become the norm he couldn't do business.

[g0zen]

Taking that into account, I'd like to think doctors charge fairly (I'm not talking about hospitals though. Fuck hospitals and there $1000+ rooms).

Wrong. They're just as culpable in the price-gouging of medicine because they get PAID to PERSCRIBE different drugs and more often. That's also the brandname drugs, by the way, not the cheaper generics from Canada (OMG socialized medicine means BAD PILLS!).

[Fe 26]

Wrong. They're just as culpable in the price-gouging of medicine because they get PAID to PERSCRIBE different drugs and more often. That's also the brandname drugs, by the way, not the cheaper generics from Canada (OMG socialized medicine means BAD PILLS!).

God, you'd argue with me about the smell of my own shit.

Doctors do not get paid to prescribe anything. That is against the law. They aren't even suppose to get premiums worth more than $5 from drug reps. Anyone doing what you are talking about is breaking the law and being dishonest.

My dad prescribes generics to people all the time to save them money. He sometimes even gives them a bag of FREE samples to save them even more money. Though I will admit that the drug companies very subtly punish him for doing so by coming by less and less to give him free samples.

You are either repeating liberal garbage or need to get a new doctor for your family if you are having that kind of problem.

[Thief Silver]

I don't know much about issues with healthcare, but I do know a lot of money is wasted by the lack of communication between healthcare companies. Shotgun billing and confusion between primary and secondary plan sponsers ends up costing billions of dollars of the governments money, least a national healthcare plan would create a standard of sorts between healthcare. At least I think it would, but I am pretty ignorant on the subject outside of knowing that they don't communicate too well.

On topic, I've been with my girlfriend for 1 year, 5 months now. She's a wonderful woman, second girlfriend of my life, doesn't drive me insane, good head on her shoulders, appreciative, etc etc. Never have either of us ever had the notion of getting married anytime soon. We both want to go to college, get our lives straightened out, and if we're still together maybe one day get married. I don't see what's so hard about waiting to get your life on track, I can love someone without needing a legal statement to show people.

[Jetman]

God, you'd argue with me about the smell of my own shit.