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The Revolution: Part 2

Re: The Revolution: Part 2

Postby Despanan » Sat May 11, 2013 4:36 pm

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Re: The Revolution: Part 2

Postby Phantomgrift » Sat May 11, 2013 5:05 pm

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Re: The Revolution: Part 2

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Re: The Revolution: Part 2

Postby Sorce » Sat May 11, 2013 9:31 pm

Yeah, College is the next bubble that needs to burst.

I mean, if we're really going to continue to go down the path of "College degree is the new high school degree", then there's little to no point to make it so damned expensive to boot.
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Re: The Revolution: Part 2

Postby Despanan » Sat May 11, 2013 9:50 pm

You know - it will be interesting to see the effect Strike Debt has on our culture in the long run. Debt speculation was pretty much the meme throughout the last few decades. I wonder if in ten or twenty years we'll look back on it in much the same way folks look back on the speculator Bubble in the comical infustry - when folks really thought they'd strike it rich after the holographic foil "wildstar #1" or "Turok Dinosaur Hunter" became as valuable as the first issue of Superman.
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Re: The Revolution: Part 2

Postby HisDivineShadow » Mon May 13, 2013 9:39 am

Honestly, if med school was fully subsidized I think many med students would be perfectly happy with something like a 20% cut in income when they do become doctors. The only reason I kinda need a starting wage of $200,000 is to pay off the shitton of student loan debt I'd be taking on.
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Re: The Revolution: Part 2

Postby Phantomgrift » Mon May 13, 2013 10:42 am

I was under the general impression that Doctors charge as much as they do simply to make sure their malpractice insurance is up to date.
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Re: The Revolution: Part 2

Postby HisDivineShadow » Mon May 13, 2013 1:16 pm

That's certainly one factor, but it's not the only one, Phant.
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Re: The Revolution: Part 2

Postby Rip » Mon May 13, 2013 3:17 pm

Sssh. Don't mention "nuance" to him, it upsets his goiter

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Re: The Revolution: Part 2

Postby Despanan » Tue May 14, 2013 1:17 am

Malpractices insurance is one problem. Especially since there's like - 4 companies in the whole US who provide it and there are whole States that they currently refuse to Insure. However another factor in rising healthcare costs is health insurance in general - which makes it a habit of underpaying or just straight up not paying whenever they think they can get away with it.

And then of course there's the fact that most people CAN'T pay when they do get sick so the unpaid debts pile up till Occupy buys them & cancels them.

Don't even get me started on Obamacare.

But the biggest factor in the cost is profit. The model we're running on now demands that hospitals turn a bigger and bigger profit every quarter. How do you turn a profit when most people can't pay and insurance won't pay\underpays? You raise the rates. Which causes insurance to go up - which causes people to be un\under insured - so you raise the rates. Which causes insurance to go up andohmyivegonecrosseyed

Which is reason #9728 to smash capitalism like a week old jack o lantern.
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