The Gubment shi**ing on the Constitution....again
#81
Just an idea, knock it if you like...
Kill the current healthcare bill.
Initiate a new healthcare bill which does the following:
"To make it illegal to pursue financial reconciliation on the grounds of medical malpractice unless malicious intent can be proven before grand jury not later than 30 days after the malicious intent has been identified"
AND NOTHING MORE
Do this, and we will all watch the bottom drop out on healthcare costs.
Kill the current healthcare bill.
Initiate a new healthcare bill which does the following:
"To make it illegal to pursue financial reconciliation on the grounds of medical malpractice unless malicious intent can be proven before grand jury not later than 30 days after the malicious intent has been identified"
AND NOTHING MORE
Do this, and we will all watch the bottom drop out on healthcare costs.
#82
I can't agree with that...there should be the ability to sue for actual negligence or incompetence as well as malicious intent. The problem is when the injured parties are awarded massive settlements because judges and juries feel sorry for them and think that "someone" has to be held accountable, even when there's no clear evidence of negligence.
#83
I can't agree with that...there should be the ability to sue for actual negligence or incompetence as well as malicious intent. The problem is when the injured parties are awarded massive settlements because judges and juries feel sorry for them and think that "someone" has to be held accountable, even when there's no clear evidence of negligence.
"To make it illegal to pursue financial reconciliation on the grounds of medical malpractice unless malicious intent or gross negligence can be proven before grand jury not later than 30 days after the malicious intent or gross negligence has been identified"
Now we can sue a doctor for mistakenly amputating the wrong limb, but we can't sue the doctor for not performing $30,000 in lab work to identify a ruptured spleen when general medical theory might strongly point to a an enlarged appendix given the symptoms the patient was experiencing - regardless of whether the actual problem was the spleen or the appendix.
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I'd like to see "The Hill" vote on things like the National Flood Insurance Program, fund-05 for disaster funding, and ya know...stuff that keeps the nation moving which isn't sensational enough about TV, while Florida hurricane insurance faces bankruptcy again.
#85
Just an idea, knock it if you like...
Kill the current healthcare bill.
Initiate a new healthcare bill which does the following:
"To make it illegal to pursue financial reconciliation on the grounds of medical malpractice unless malicious intent can be proven before grand jury not later than 30 days after the malicious intent has been identified"
AND NOTHING MORE
Do this, and we will all watch the bottom drop out on healthcare costs.
Kill the current healthcare bill.
Initiate a new healthcare bill which does the following:
"To make it illegal to pursue financial reconciliation on the grounds of medical malpractice unless malicious intent can be proven before grand jury not later than 30 days after the malicious intent has been identified"
AND NOTHING MORE
Do this, and we will all watch the bottom drop out on healthcare costs.
Here are the others:
How American Health Care Killed My Father - Magazine - The Atlantic
#86
Malpractice is ONE of the problems.
Here are the others:
How American Health Care Killed My Father - Magazine - The Atlantic
Here are the others:
How American Health Care Killed My Father - Magazine - The Atlantic
I'm sorry....what was that again?
#87
Solution: Insurance companies go bankrupt, ppl dont get paid, GOVT STAY OUT, Insurance companies liquidate to pay ppl what they can. New insurance companies come in which PROPERLY EVALUATE THEIR DAMN RISK people pay a second mortgage payment on insurance, dont get insurance, or GTFO OF FLORIDA! Disaster happens again, insurance company has enough assets to fix the problem this time.
Fail: Government fixes the problem at the cost of the rest of the US. Insurance companies continue to calculate risk poorly because they're not financially liable in the end. People continue to live in (insert high risk location here) US borrows more money from another country to pay for insurance default. Problem occurrs again and again and again.....
Different topic:
If the government takes money from the people who make it, and gives that money to the people who dont, then what's the incentive to go to work in the morning? Why "earn" my healthcare by providing for the American economy if someone is willing to "give" it to me for free instead?
Fail: Government fixes the problem at the cost of the rest of the US. Insurance companies continue to calculate risk poorly because they're not financially liable in the end. People continue to live in (insert high risk location here) US borrows more money from another country to pay for insurance default. Problem occurrs again and again and again.....
Different topic:
If the government takes money from the people who make it, and gives that money to the people who dont, then what's the incentive to go to work in the morning? Why "earn" my healthcare by providing for the American economy if someone is willing to "give" it to me for free instead?
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If the government takes money from the people who make it, and gives that money to the people who dont, then what's the incentive to go to work in the morning? Why "earn" my healthcare by providing for the American economy if someone is willing to "give" it to me for free instead?
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If the government takes money from the people who make it, and gives that money to the people who dont, then what's the incentive to go to work in the morning? Why "earn" my healthcare by providing for the American economy if someone is willing to "give" it to me for free instead?
#92
I dont have a kid, a wife, a mortgage, or any other big responsibilities. If I had a family, I would do what it took to turn as big a buck as I can so my kid can go to college and hopefully not bollox it up like I did and so that my wife can do whatever she wants. My contribution to society then is taking care of my family and producing succesfull happy people. And that takes money. So if I can make more dough slinging oil futures, suing people, driving a truck, programming something, counting dollars, welding, or whatever, then I will do it. And if something doesnt pay, screw it. I can volunteer to get that fix.
I think overall that finding is dead-on, but its also situational.
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Well, it assumes that you make a salary that is adequate to live on--ie enough that you dont need more.
But dont take my word for it:
Amazon.com: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (9781594488849): Daniel H. Pink: Books
People are also more motivated by challenge and mastery of a given subject. That's why people do shitty jobs for money and do hobbies for free. What's the difference between being a mechanic and a car enthusiast? both work on cars, but one does it for free after working a full day...
The book is interesting.
But dont take my word for it:
Amazon.com: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (9781594488849): Daniel H. Pink: Books
People are also more motivated by challenge and mastery of a given subject. That's why people do shitty jobs for money and do hobbies for free. What's the difference between being a mechanic and a car enthusiast? both work on cars, but one does it for free after working a full day...
The book is interesting.
#95
There's a massive difference between freely choosing a less profitable job because you personally enjoy the challenge, or think it's important, or find it fulfilling, and being told how, when, where, and for what wage you will do your job by the government, for no reason other than it "benefits society".
I suspect at the top of the list of job motivation is the sense of self-direction and freedom. It's why I work in an independent bookstore for half of what I could make as a cubicle bitch.
I suspect at the top of the list of job motivation is the sense of self-direction and freedom. It's why I work in an independent bookstore for half of what I could make as a cubicle bitch.
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I will finish up my response later in the day when I get back from selling my hardtop. I have so much more to say about this.
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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs:
In this one people willingly electrocuted a puppy (yes it was really electrocuted) just because an authority figure instructed them to do so. It is a spin-off or the Milgram experiment.
Charles Sheridan | brianpuccio.net
And this one is a very famous study about human nature:
Stanford prison experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Researchers have also learned that people will harm society just because they have been instructed to do so by authority figures. Banality of Evil Herman
But dont take my word for it:
Amazon.com: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (9781594488849): Daniel H. Pink: Books
People are also more motivated by challenge and mastery of a given subject. That's why people do shitty jobs for money and do hobbies for free. What's the difference between being a mechanic and a car enthusiast? both work on cars, but one does it for free after working a full day...
The book is interesting.
Amazon.com: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (9781594488849): Daniel H. Pink: Books
People are also more motivated by challenge and mastery of a given subject. That's why people do shitty jobs for money and do hobbies for free. What's the difference between being a mechanic and a car enthusiast? both work on cars, but one does it for free after working a full day...
The book is interesting.
The book has received scathing reviews for it's selective use of facts, ignoring data that contradicts the opinions of the author, and being heavy on opinion and light on data. But being that "pop psychology" motivational/management books sell well in corporate circles it is no surprise that it was written and is selling. Read any of the hundreds of other titles written to sell to middle management types to make them better managers (but actually created to just make money selling books). I can recommend a few more if you want because I've been to too many management or sales training seminars and they all have a "hot new" stupid book.
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I said it's an interesting book. It is not gospel. I'm not a manager and don't generally have an interest in management books. This book was in our house and I was looking for insight into my own motivation. So I read it.
more bullet points:
* people want to master their chosen profession (yes, better way to put it)
* once people make enough money for at least the bottm 3 levels of Maslow's pyramid, they dont necessarily need more to be happy. or: more money wont increase your happiness.
* if you're always looking at the government as evil, any argument for them is going to be pretty irrelevant.
man this thread is all over the place.
more bullet points:
* people want to master their chosen profession (yes, better way to put it)
* once people make enough money for at least the bottm 3 levels of Maslow's pyramid, they dont necessarily need more to be happy. or: more money wont increase your happiness.
* if you're always looking at the government as evil, any argument for them is going to be pretty irrelevant.
man this thread is all over the place.