If you can find a post of mine that opines that the Democratic party should spend tax dollars on something BECAUSE the Republicans spent tax dollars on a war…
go ahead and quote it. Otherwise, please refrain from accusing me of something I did not do.
Hint; I do not cheer for the Red Team or the Blue Team.
To charge insurance you need to have a diagnostic code; e.g., X-Ray, sprained wrist, flu shot, etc. This authorized the doctor to charge for counseling. It’s not the sort of thing you just want to do at the end of a regular visit. “Say, Doc, before you go, can you put me down for DNR”?
This is a trick question, right? Clearly it’s the folks with the Black Helicopters.
Does that mean no sepukku?
But how is that any different than what private health insurance companies already do today? Wouldn’t a not-for-profit government run system (where no one is getting a bonus based on how much money they saved) have less incentive for you to die early than a for-profit private health insurance system (where the CEO is incentivized to do everything he can to cut expenses, including cut off sick patients early)?
I am on Medicare. the government has an interest in keeping me healthy. They send me Emails to tell me what tests and preventatives I am eligible for. I never got a letter or email from an insurance company suggesting I might want to take a new test. That would be spending money now to save money in the future. Corporations don’t think ahead. They don’t make long term plans. They do not invest todays money in long time future programs. It takes away from todays profit statement and may cut bonuses a little.
Not only are they incentivized, they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to pay out as little as possible.
Why would I commit seppuku? She’s the one who sucks.
That’s not true. Corporations certainly have long term plans. Do you think they can screw the public so effectively on a spur of the moment basis?
One thing needs to be made clear. If I understand correctly, the Health Care Law that is proposed in Congress would allow for end of life counselling with your doctor more than one time in your life. You wouldn’t have to wait until you were near death for this counselling.
I think that it would be wise of any adult who has very firm ideas of what she or he wants near the end of life to discuss this with your doctor and your family and put it into writing. Ask your doctor for a Living Will.
If the choice is between letting me live a little longer but being in terrible pain and having something for pain that might speed along my death by a few days or few weeks, I would opt for the painkiller. This is just part of the sort of thing that adults should talk about with their loved ones and their doctor.
The Bill in Congress would pay your doctor for her or his time in counselling you. You could probably talk with her or him about it now, but if it’s done in a regular office visit, it might be rather hurried. I don’t know if any insurance covers it now.
To the best of my knowledge, “Death Panel” is just a recently made-up name to try to instill fear into people. Why would they do that? Why would they deliberately try to mislead you?
Well at least you acnowledge that the Blues lie. There was a thread a few weeks ago about how only Reds lie… or was it that they only lie about people and Blues tell different lies… for the good of the people. I get confused easily.
Stolen for facebookization. (With anonymous credit… I just prefer to keep my online presences separate for the most part, hope you don’t mind!)
Yes, Blue Team certainly lies as well. They all lie. Recently though, the lies of the Red Team have been particularly egregious. “Death Panels?” I mean, come on! People should just laugh out loud at this
Not at all! Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Had does such an obviously false and plainly laughable construct such as ‘death panels’ get past the first hour of media sunlight? It’s so superficially stupid, it has no right to reach as far as the first news bulliten, and wouldn’t in most countries - if not all beyond the USA.
And yet it was debated as if it made some kind of sense. That’s the shame in it.
Because the story is who is saying it. This didn’t see much light when Betsy McCaughey started it but took off when Sarah Palin repeated it.
It is not in the bill anymore. I got withdrawn when that lying pile of moose dung and her Fox friends started in on the death panel crap.
Last visit, the doctor and I talked about the scenarios in which the Steelers might be able to make the playoffs. I’m sure he didn’t put that down on the insurance form. I find it crazy that the doctor can’t simply put down “medical consultation” or some generic description of what was done, but that the insurance company needs to know every small detail of what was discussed.
Isn’t private health care wonderful? The doctors office may even have different codes for different insurers. Not only that, the insures decide what drugs can be prescribed for different conditions. For example, a doctor may recommend you take Paxil to help quit smoking but it won’t be covered for that so he may have to diagnose you as depressed in order for insurance to cover it. Of course that now becomes a pre-existing condition when you change insurers.
Or maybe a 50mg tablet is reimbursed at a lower rate than 100mg (not per-mg, for each pill) and you may need to have him prescribe a 100mg and split them. These are not hypothetical, they are real examples from myself and a friend.
Have you had one of these discussions? The one we had with our lawyer was fairly extensive, and resulted in the generation of a medical directive. I don’t think a note on your record saying “jtgain says to pull the flippin’ plug” is going to be good enough. Plus, you might want some time to think it over before going.
Your solution to this problem is insurance fraud?