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Foreign Invaders crisis cost $150B in 2023, forcing some areas to cut police and fire services: report Israel kills head of Hezbollah Intelligence. Status: Not Logged In; Sign In Health/Medical See other Health/Medical Articles Title: Survey: Physicians Prefer Medicare to Private Plans Source: Internal Medicine News URL Source: http://www.internalmedicinenews.com ... -private-plans/9449dfc977.html Published: Mar 01, 2001 Author: ERIK GOLDMAN Post Date: 2011-07-14 09:22:35 by lucysmom Keywords: What You Think You Know, Ain Views: 41082 Comments: 66 DENVER — Physicians may not be enamored of Medicare, but they like it better than private insurance plans, according to a survey by the Medical Group Management Association. In MGMA's Payer Performance Study—covering more than 1,700 group practices—physician groups ranked Medicare Part B well ahead of six large private insurers in terms of overall satisfaction. The survey asked members of MGMA to rank seven of the largest payers (Medicare Part B, UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Cigna, Humana, Coventry, and Anthem) on payer communications, provider credentialing, contract negotiation, payment processing, systems transparency, and overall satisfaction. Medicare led the pack with a mean aggregate satisfaction score of 3.59 on a 6-point scale. Aetna took second place with a score of 3.14. The big loser? UnitedHealthcare, with a score of 2.45. Click for Full Text! Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread   Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 62. #1. To: Badeye, A K A Stone, hondo68, Fred Mertz, Godwinson, go65, war, no gnu taxes, Skip Intro, ferret mike, jwpegler, brian s, mcgowanjm, Capitalist Eric, Mininggold (#0) The MGMA survey did not ask about satisfaction with actual Medicare reimbursement rates, but Dr. Jessee said he anticipated that Medicare's ranking could drop considerably if the federal government cuts physician fees in the future. A friend's doctor told her that Medicare actually pays better than Blue Shield. lucysmom  posted on  2011-07-14   9:25:38 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #8. To: lucysmom (#1) A friend's doctor told her that Medicare actually pays better than Blue Shield. One of my closest friends packed up his family, and moved out of the country. He and his wife are both doctors. They decided they weren't going to put with the ob@m@-c@re SOCIALIST system. Capitalist Eric  posted on  2011-07-14   17:35:27 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #9. To: Capitalist Eric (#8) Maybe you could join them. lucysmom  posted on  2011-07-14   21:31:18 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #10. To: lucysmom (#9) You first. You're a fucking SOCIALIST. I'm sure there are LOTS of countries that'd love to have a parasite like you: Cuba, Norway, France, China... oh, forget that last one... they SHOOT parasites. Then again, maybe you *should* go. You're a fucking waste of flesh, so why don't you just die? Capitalist Eric  posted on  2011-07-14   21:46:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #11. To: Capitalist Eric (#10) I'm sure there are LOTS of countries that'd love to have a parasite like you: Cuba Cuba doesn't put up with parasites. You work or you starve. ditto for the old Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, etc. It's only the decadent Europeans and Americans that allow lazy able bodied people to suck the lifeblood out of society. jwpegler  posted on  2011-07-14   21:48:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #12. To: jwpegler (#11) Cuba doesn't put up with parasites. You work or you starve. ditto for the old Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, etc. It's only the decadent Europeans and Americans that allow lazy able bodied people to suck the lifeblood out of society. I guess all that talk about Cuba being a communist country is more of that GOP BS. According to your description they fit that capitalist ideal of 'survival of the fittest' to a 'T'. mininggold  posted on  2011-07-14   22:01:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #13. To: mininggold (#12) I guess all that talk about Cuba being a communist country is more of that GOP BS No. Communist countries forced people to work at the barrel of a gun. Ask anyone who lived in one. jwpegler  posted on  2011-07-14   22:17:12 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #14. To: jwpegler (#13) No. Communist countries forced people to work at the barrel of a gun. Ask anyone who lived in one. You are mixing up communist and a dictatorship, while they aren't necessarily exclusive neither are they automatically inclusive either. mininggold  posted on  2011-07-14   23:09:36 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #15. To: mininggold (#14) You are mixing up communist and a dictatorship They are synonyms. A K A Stone  posted on  2011-07-14   23:11:11 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #21. To: A K A Stone (#15) They are synonyms. No, they are not. One is an economic system, the other is a political system. Hitler's Germany is an example of a Capitalist dictatorship; and reading the posts of capitalism's proponents on this forum, the preferred model. lucysmom  posted on  2011-07-15   10:24:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #41. To: lucysmom, A K A Stone (#21) Hitler's Germany is an example of a Capitalist dictatorship; You make it too easy... LOL. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi The self-identification term, used by exponents of the ideology past and present is National Socialism and adherents describe themselves as National Socialists. For instance the best known organisation expousing this system, the German party led by Adolf Hitler was called the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German abbreviation: NSDAP). Similarly, the second volume of Mein Kampf is entitled The National Socialist Movement.[18] According to Joseph Goebbels in an official exposition of the ideology, the logic behind the synthesis of Nationalism and Socialism as represented in the name, was to "counter the Internationalism of Marxism with the nationalism of a German Socialism".[19] Thanks for playing, loonymom/ming. Capitalist Eric  posted on  2011-07-15   12:49:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #43. To: Capitalist Eric (#41) You make it too easy... LOL. Using your logic, that would make The People's Republic of China, Republican. lucysmom  posted on  2011-07-15   12:55:40 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #48. To: lucysmom (#43) Using your logic, that would make The People's Republic of China, Republican. Bullshit. Unlike you, I posted a citation, which is only one of many. I could post a variety of other sources, which will all tell you the same thing: Nazi Germany was a SOCIALIST country. Nazi was short for the National Socialist German Workers Party. How do you NOT understand this? How many references need I post, before you DO get it? You've been caught in either another lie, or exposed for being grossly ignorant. Which is it? Capitalist Eric  posted on  2011-07-15   13:55:50 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #55. To: Capitalist Eric (#48) Bullshit. Unlike you, I posted a citation, which is only one of many. Did you take heed of the opening words of your citation The self-identification term, used by exponents...? Again I ask you, why do you think American businessmen were enamored with Hitler and the Nazis? Why might Nazis want to identify themselves as socialists? Capitalists and conservatives in Germany feared that a takeover by the Communists was inevitable and did not trust the democratic parties of the Weimar Republic to be able to resist a communist revolution. Increasing numbers of capitalists began looking to the nationalist movements as a bulwark against Bolshevism. After Mussolini's fascists took power in Italy in 1922, fascism presented itself as a realistic option for opposing "Communism", particularly given Mussolini's success in crushing the Communist and anarchist movements which had destabilised Italy with a wave of strikes and factory occupations after the First World War. Fascist parties formed in numerous European countries. Many historians such as Ian Kershaw and Joachim Fest argue that Hitler and the Nazis were one of numerous nationalist and increasingly fascistic groups that existed in Germany and contended for leadership of the anti-Communist movement and, eventually, of the German state. Further, they assert that fascism and its German variant National Socialism became the successful challengers to Communism because they were able to both appeal to the establishment as a bulwark against Bolshevism and appeal to the working class base, particularly the growing underclass of unemployed and unemployable and growingly impoverished middle class elements who were becoming declassed (the lumpenproletariat). The Nazi's use of socialist rhetoric appealed to disaffection with capitalism while presenting a political and economic model that divested "socialism" of any elements which were dangerous to capitalism, such as the concept of class struggle, "the dictatorship of the proletariat" or worker control of the means of production. www.nazism.net/about/nazi_ideology/ You've been caught in either another lie, or exposed for being grossly ignorant. Which is it? The dilettante strikes again. lucysmom  posted on  2011-07-15   15:58:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #59. To: lucysmom (#55) Did you take heed of the opening words of your citation The self-identification term, used by exponents...? You failed to read and comprehend the meaning of the words... What, your lips get too tired from the effort? Here, let me HELP you, grannie: I could post a variety of other sources, which will all tell you the same thing: Nazi Germany was a SOCIALIST country. Nazi was short for the National Socialist German Workers Party. How do you NOT understand this? How many references need I post, before you DO get it? You've been caught in either another lie, or exposed for being grossly ignorant. Which is it? The dilettante strikes again. Nice evasion. Were I to make a guess, I'd say you're both; stupid and a liar. It would certainly explain why you post easily disproven bullshit, and then get annoyed when your lies are exposed. You stupidly think that nobody will see through your superficial attempts to cover yourself... We all see you're a joke. The only one who still thinks you post anything of substance... is you. Oh, and of course "ming," which we all know is also you. Must really suck to be you. Capitalist Eric  posted on  2011-07-15   17:13:23 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #60. To: Capitalist Eric (#59) Here, let me HELP you, grannie: I could post a variety of other sources, which will all tell you the same thing: Nazi Germany was a SOCIALIST country. Nazi was short for the National Socialist German Workers Party. So what? Nazi Germany called itself socialist; does that make it socialist? If so, then mainland China must be a republic because it has the word "Republic" in its name. Nothing to say about my sourced rebuttal - thought not. lucysmom  posted on  2011-07-15   18:44:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #62. To: lucysmom (#60) Nazi Germany called itself socialist... First honest thing you've said. does that make it socialist? If so, then mainland China must be a republic because it has the word "Republic" in its name. As always, you resort back to the same old playbook, that we all know: Rule of Disinformation #13. Alice in Wonderland Logic. Avoid discussion of the issues by reasoning backwards with an apparent deductive logic in a way that forbears any actual material fact. Nothing to say about my sourced rebuttal - thought not. Your "citation" is a webpage that has interesting twists on historical data, but mainly uses words like "some historians say," or "a few philosophers think", etc., etc. In other words, it's a webpage I could have put together in a few hours, if I really wanted to. Which means your citation is worth precisely dick, especially when there are a variety of aspects that are factually wrong. I already described what "Nazi" stood for. The "Socialist" aspect was important, because Germans had been economically wiped out by World War I, the resultant Treaty of Versailles and "democratic politics." Of course, they were also aware of the suffering going on in Russia, due to the Bolshevik revolution, so that knew that Communism was a terrible alternative. They wanted SOCIALISM, without the flaws of Communism. They mixed in corporatist elements, and some dictatorial elements... But the end result was a hybrid between corporatism and socialism. Your point- that the Nazis were capitalists- is a LIE. Your "citation," your twisting it to fit alternative conclusions, and your whole line of thinking- is a LIE. Check-mate, grannie. ESAD. Capitalist Eric  posted on  2011-07-15   19:55:05 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   Replies to Comment # 62.         There are no replies to Comment # 62. End Trace Mode for Comment # 62. Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest

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