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Old 12-10-2010, 07:27 AM
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Originally Posted by BlueStreak View Post
Financially speaking, mebby so. But it's only because they can stretch a penny until it's copper wire, or cut corners until all you're doing is running in circles.

Personally, when it's me on the table I want no corners cut and no expense spared. You?

Dave
Yet we here spend double per capita than what the other industrialized contries do. And all in the wrong way. I was reading an article in WaPo this morning by a geriontologist. He noted that an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist gets more from Medicare for cleaning out ear wax than he gets for a twenty minute consultation with a senior patient. All this skewing of values is because the AMA "helps" Medicare set rates - right!

I am convinced that our society given the opportunity could screw up the Lord's Prayer.
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