And all you need to do is trace the money behind the litigators who brought Citizens United, Shelby County, the Texas attacks on privacy and you see the Donor's Trust and their ilk: Donor's Trust is proud that its purpose is to defeat affirmative action. AND THOSE donations are tax-free to the elite Americans. Gun laws fall in this mou…
And all you need to do is trace the money behind the litigators who brought Citizens United, Shelby County, the Texas attacks on privacy and you see the Donor's Trust and their ilk: Donor's Trust is proud that its purpose is to defeat affirmative action. AND THOSE donations are tax-free to the elite Americans. Gun laws fall in this mousetrap too. Senator McConnell is responsible and so too Manchin and Sinema: no voting rights, no sane gun laws, no masks: 1 million Americans killed by Covid because science isn't respected by Trump and his ilk. I am too angry to make a sensible plea. Pass the Freedom to Vote, John R Lewis Act, pass background checks, pass the Equal Rights Amendment. Respect citizens and not corporations.
So the US is already an oligarchy. Have we lost the battle? Yesterday, I talked with a colleague, also a US protestant pastor working here in Wiesbaden. She said that, when waking to the horror of another mass slaying of innocents, she and her wife determined to do whatever possible to raise their two young children away from America.
I know that I can never live in the US because I can't afford the health insurance. I recently had emergency surgery that would have cost $100,000+++ in the US. Here I have "low class insurance" which still gave me the best surgeons and in Germany and cost me a daily €10. The food wasn't so good - that's my only complaint.
Very pleased you recieved the necessary medical care Rosalind. I have a friend who survived pancreatic cancer resection with state of the art medical care at.UCSF in San Francisco on Medicare, Parts A & B. followed up with free hereditary, oncology education post-op. It does help greatly in the U.S. to have a MD "hospitalist" to interface with treating physicians.
Yes, I know that, with the right connections, one can get wonderful care. I was in that boat when I was married to a physician in NYC who had contacts. Fantastic care. And when I needed a hip replacement, I was at the Hospital for Special Surgery.
That said, when my young grandson had a life-and-death emergency surgery in Austin a few years ago, the bill after insurance to his dad was over $50,000 for the anesthesiologist, who happened not to be in the family insurance plan that evening. My grandson would have died if he had to wait for an anesthesiologist in the plan. The US healthcare system is brutally broken.
Certainly respect your opinion Rosalind as I handled medical billing disputes pro bono for over 35 years assisting families, colleagues, staff, exhausted primary policies, medical admistrative appeals, private & medicare, hospice transfers & organ donor matters with complex unresolved diseases such as MSA, multiple system attrophy. As a "healthcare system" the system fails many aggravated by rampant violations of privacy & unfair business practices. I still fight back.
By the way, I'm not giving you my opinion. I'm giving you my experience...something much different. Like my grandson, I might have died from the frontal lobe hematoma that went unchecked (I just thought I was getting dementia). Right now,I'm awaiting my second CT scan post-op, and trying to stay calm, trying to hope for the best.
Correct Jeanne. Anesthesiologists are often a separate separate corporate billing entity generating unnecessary billing disputes. FYI, UCSF used a Team of 3 anesthesiologists on a 10 hour pancreatic surgery. All paid by Medicare Part A. All deductibles paid by a Group "Medicare Supplement" coverage policy including the premium cost of Medicare Parts A & B. Out of $ pocket to Patient: Zero.
But they are, Jeanne. They are only paid by the insurance plans with which they are affiliated. If they are in the emergency room when someone comes in with a plan the Dr. is affiliated with, the patient picks up the bill.
Lots of folks are making plans to leave. Canadian citizenship is $1 Million and they have had a huge rise of applications from US Citizens. Sort of like what happened in Hong Kong in the late 1990's.
Honestly, Canadian Citizenship was a mere $250,000 about 5 years ago and I regret not obtaining that document.
You're joking of course!(?) "Hospital costs averaged $2,607 per day throughout the U.S., with California ($3,726 per day) just edging out Oregon ($3,271) for most expensive. Wyoming ($1,383) has the cheapest with Iowa ($1,606) a distant second. If you stay overnight, costs soar.
If you stay overnight, costs soar. The average hospital stay runs $11,700 with Medicare ($13,600) and “other” insurance ($12,600) paying top dollar and the uninsured ($9,300) and Medicaid ($9,800) paying the least." https://www.debt.org/medical/hospital-surgery-costs/
Alice: "Donor's Trust is proud that its purpose is to defeat affirmative action."
Actually, Donors Trust are trying to keep affirmative action for whites only.
Regarding "Affirmative Action" in America/Texas:
To the credit of Texas, they did build Prairie View A&M where the campus was essentially 100% black. Texas also built Texas A&M in Kingsville, TX for Mexican folks. And, Texas built Texas A&M at College Station for whites (except for the football team). That is how everything stood when I applied in 1978 with a "Mexican" last name and an SAT of 1080 (but was in top 10% of my class).
Anyone could apply to any of these locations. I was just not aware that Mexicans were supposed to attend at Kingsville and I applied to Texas A&M College Station and was admitted. I graduated at the top of both the University and my Chemical Engineering class even though my SAT was something like 1050 or so. My roommate, on the other hand, was a National Merit Scholar, who, upon arrival, tried to set the world's record for beer consumption and was sent home with a 1.8 GPA at midterm.
Texas does NOT do "affirmative" action but they have always ignored the SAT if you are in the top 10% or so of your high school class. UT and A&M BOTH have plenty of statistics showing no correlation between final class standing and SAT. But, they also have plenty of stats showing final class standing correlated with class standing in high school.
Were it not for the fact that A&M ignored the SAT, I would not have been admitted.
Now. Harvard, Yale, Brown, Ivy, on the other hand, put a LOT of emphasis on the SAT for some of their admissions (but ignore that SAT score for their white affirmative action candidates from rich families, with disastrous academic records, like George W. Bush and Jared Kushner and Trump and, actually, a huge number of rich, white people).
So, at the University level, Texas was already not doing affirmative action for minorities, BUT, was placing admissions priority on past performance ONLY. George Bush applied to UT but could not get in so he had to go to Yale.
BUT, Ivy League schools WERE AND ARE using affirmative action.
But, IVY League is using affirmative action ONLY FOR WHITE PEOPLE.
Blacks who are admitted are MUCH higher past performers than the rich, drunken, whites that are admitted like George W. Bush, Jared Kushner, Brett Kavanaugh ..... and a semi infinite number of other losers that are white.
So, I don't think Donor's Trust is trying to eliminate affirmative action at all.
Donors Trust are trying to keep affirmative action for whites only.
Thank you Alice, respect all Citizens; there have been 1 Million 'reported' CV 19 deaths; respect all People; WHO estimates Global CV19 deaths, reported & not reported, at 15,000,000.
And all you need to do is trace the money behind the litigators who brought Citizens United, Shelby County, the Texas attacks on privacy and you see the Donor's Trust and their ilk: Donor's Trust is proud that its purpose is to defeat affirmative action. AND THOSE donations are tax-free to the elite Americans. Gun laws fall in this mousetrap too. Senator McConnell is responsible and so too Manchin and Sinema: no voting rights, no sane gun laws, no masks: 1 million Americans killed by Covid because science isn't respected by Trump and his ilk. I am too angry to make a sensible plea. Pass the Freedom to Vote, John R Lewis Act, pass background checks, pass the Equal Rights Amendment. Respect citizens and not corporations.
So the US is already an oligarchy. Have we lost the battle? Yesterday, I talked with a colleague, also a US protestant pastor working here in Wiesbaden. She said that, when waking to the horror of another mass slaying of innocents, she and her wife determined to do whatever possible to raise their two young children away from America.
I know that I can never live in the US because I can't afford the health insurance. I recently had emergency surgery that would have cost $100,000+++ in the US. Here I have "low class insurance" which still gave me the best surgeons and in Germany and cost me a daily €10. The food wasn't so good - that's my only complaint.
Very pleased you recieved the necessary medical care Rosalind. I have a friend who survived pancreatic cancer resection with state of the art medical care at.UCSF in San Francisco on Medicare, Parts A & B. followed up with free hereditary, oncology education post-op. It does help greatly in the U.S. to have a MD "hospitalist" to interface with treating physicians.
Yes, I know that, with the right connections, one can get wonderful care. I was in that boat when I was married to a physician in NYC who had contacts. Fantastic care. And when I needed a hip replacement, I was at the Hospital for Special Surgery.
That said, when my young grandson had a life-and-death emergency surgery in Austin a few years ago, the bill after insurance to his dad was over $50,000 for the anesthesiologist, who happened not to be in the family insurance plan that evening. My grandson would have died if he had to wait for an anesthesiologist in the plan. The US healthcare system is brutally broken.
Certainly respect your opinion Rosalind as I handled medical billing disputes pro bono for over 35 years assisting families, colleagues, staff, exhausted primary policies, medical admistrative appeals, private & medicare, hospice transfers & organ donor matters with complex unresolved diseases such as MSA, multiple system attrophy. As a "healthcare system" the system fails many aggravated by rampant violations of privacy & unfair business practices. I still fight back.
Thanks for your work, Bryan!
By the way, I'm not giving you my opinion. I'm giving you my experience...something much different. Like my grandson, I might have died from the frontal lobe hematoma that went unchecked (I just thought I was getting dementia). Right now,I'm awaiting my second CT scan post-op, and trying to stay calm, trying to hope for the best.
Brutally, profits rule
Brutally Broken.
It seems that anesthesiologists are never in the plan.
Correct Jeanne. Anesthesiologists are often a separate separate corporate billing entity generating unnecessary billing disputes. FYI, UCSF used a Team of 3 anesthesiologists on a 10 hour pancreatic surgery. All paid by Medicare Part A. All deductibles paid by a Group "Medicare Supplement" coverage policy including the premium cost of Medicare Parts A & B. Out of $ pocket to Patient: Zero.
Wow, that's good to know. I have both.
Strongest lobby I ever fought, and forget about trying to sue them.
But they are, Jeanne. They are only paid by the insurance plans with which they are affiliated. If they are in the emergency room when someone comes in with a plan the Dr. is affiliated with, the patient picks up the bill.
Lots of folks are making plans to leave. Canadian citizenship is $1 Million and they have had a huge rise of applications from US Citizens. Sort of like what happened in Hong Kong in the late 1990's.
Honestly, Canadian Citizenship was a mere $250,000 about 5 years ago and I regret not obtaining that document.
Wasn't Michael Moore circa 2007 that said, "Hook Up with a Canuck"?
I was in the hospital for 8 days - that's the €10 I meant. My total out-of-pocket was €80.
"and cost me a daily €10." Wait - what is that sign? Anything like $10 per day (which would be pretty expensive).
€10/day for the 8 days I was in the hospital. My out of pocket was and still is, €80.
Thanks for the clarification. A hospital stay. That is CHEAP!
You're joking of course!(?) "Hospital costs averaged $2,607 per day throughout the U.S., with California ($3,726 per day) just edging out Oregon ($3,271) for most expensive. Wyoming ($1,383) has the cheapest with Iowa ($1,606) a distant second. If you stay overnight, costs soar.
If you stay overnight, costs soar. The average hospital stay runs $11,700 with Medicare ($13,600) and “other” insurance ($12,600) paying top dollar and the uninsured ($9,300) and Medicaid ($9,800) paying the least." https://www.debt.org/medical/hospital-surgery-costs/
Alice: "Donor's Trust is proud that its purpose is to defeat affirmative action."
Actually, Donors Trust are trying to keep affirmative action for whites only.
Regarding "Affirmative Action" in America/Texas:
To the credit of Texas, they did build Prairie View A&M where the campus was essentially 100% black. Texas also built Texas A&M in Kingsville, TX for Mexican folks. And, Texas built Texas A&M at College Station for whites (except for the football team). That is how everything stood when I applied in 1978 with a "Mexican" last name and an SAT of 1080 (but was in top 10% of my class).
Anyone could apply to any of these locations. I was just not aware that Mexicans were supposed to attend at Kingsville and I applied to Texas A&M College Station and was admitted. I graduated at the top of both the University and my Chemical Engineering class even though my SAT was something like 1050 or so. My roommate, on the other hand, was a National Merit Scholar, who, upon arrival, tried to set the world's record for beer consumption and was sent home with a 1.8 GPA at midterm.
Texas does NOT do "affirmative" action but they have always ignored the SAT if you are in the top 10% or so of your high school class. UT and A&M BOTH have plenty of statistics showing no correlation between final class standing and SAT. But, they also have plenty of stats showing final class standing correlated with class standing in high school.
Were it not for the fact that A&M ignored the SAT, I would not have been admitted.
Now. Harvard, Yale, Brown, Ivy, on the other hand, put a LOT of emphasis on the SAT for some of their admissions (but ignore that SAT score for their white affirmative action candidates from rich families, with disastrous academic records, like George W. Bush and Jared Kushner and Trump and, actually, a huge number of rich, white people).
So, at the University level, Texas was already not doing affirmative action for minorities, BUT, was placing admissions priority on past performance ONLY. George Bush applied to UT but could not get in so he had to go to Yale.
BUT, Ivy League schools WERE AND ARE using affirmative action.
But, IVY League is using affirmative action ONLY FOR WHITE PEOPLE.
Blacks who are admitted are MUCH higher past performers than the rich, drunken, whites that are admitted like George W. Bush, Jared Kushner, Brett Kavanaugh ..... and a semi infinite number of other losers that are white.
So, I don't think Donor's Trust is trying to eliminate affirmative action at all.
Donors Trust are trying to keep affirmative action for whites only.
Thank you Alice, respect all Citizens; there have been 1 Million 'reported' CV 19 deaths; respect all People; WHO estimates Global CV19 deaths, reported & not reported, at 15,000,000.
Yikes...