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03-08-2010, 05:08 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,467
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Originally Posted by Fishpart
Need an example???? Look at your phonebill, since MA Bell got broken up prices have come down considerably, I remember paying $1.00/minute from Boston to Providence in the 80's...
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That has more to do with the technology becoming a commodity than anything else...
-spence |
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03-08-2010, 07:16 PM
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Keep The Change
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Road to Serfdom
Posts: 3,275
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When you increase competition, people come up with innovative ways to cut costs.....
With only 2 carriers in RI, you can't tell me they don't wink wink "manage" the pricing and delivery........
Next step is capping what you can get out of a frivilous lawsuit...
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“It’s not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections,” Antonin Scalia
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03-08-2010, 07:57 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 5,238
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Originally Posted by Fishpart
Next step is capping what you can get out of a frivilous lawsuit...
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Bingo!
Some OB/GYN doctors pay over $100k or more for their malpractice.
This article is a bit dated, but it demonstrates the ridiculousness of that situation. |
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03-08-2010, 08:49 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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Originally Posted by JohnnyD
Bingo!
Some OB/GYN doctors pay over $100k or more for their malpractice.
This article is a bit dated, but it demonstrates the ridiculousness of that situation.
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My wife's head of ob/gyn at Mt Auburn was payin 200K in 97 |
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03-08-2010, 09:02 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Mansfield, MA
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Originally Posted by striperman36
My wife's head of ob/gyn at Mt Auburn was payin 200K in 97
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Precisely. As I'm sure you know, but many don't... Obstetrics doctors are liable to be sued until the 18th birthday of a child they deliver. There is no statute of limitations for OBs and a parent can sue the OB if they believe any possible error during deliver or even bad advice *could* have been the cause of any disability.
It's pathetic. It's no wonder no one wants to become a doctor any more. |
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03-08-2010, 09:22 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 12,632
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fishpart
When you increase competition, people come up with innovative ways to cut costs.....
With only 2 carriers in RI, you can't tell me they don't wink wink "manage" the pricing and delivery........
Next step is capping what you can get out of a frivilous lawsuit...
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health insurance companies don't want to do business in RI....over 1000 state mandates regarding coverage...that's why it's so expensive...creeps at the state house tell you what you MUST cover and then demand paola on top of that.....hardly worth the effort for a company to come in and set up shop....if you want to know where your jobs and options and freedoms are going...they're being run out of town by these elected maniacs that mandate, legislate and tax "everything that moves and everything that doesn't"... |
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03-08-2010, 10:06 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 5,238
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Originally Posted by scottw
health insurance companies don't want to do business in RI....over 1000 state mandates regarding coverage...that's why it's so expensive...creeps at the state house tell you what you MUST cover and then demand paola on top of that.....hardly worth the effort for a company to come in and set up shop....if you want to know where your jobs and options and freedoms are going...they're being run out of town by these elected maniacs that mandate, legislate and tax "everything that moves and everything that doesn't"...
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Sounds like business as usual in RI. No wonder every business is hitching a ride out of town and the state has one of the worst unemployment rates. |
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