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3M Co. will drop retirees from health plans, steer to Medicare

And yet Australia where health care IS free the cost is much much much lower. With a caveat. Some people DO try and abuse the system but they are gently encouraged not to do so (I.e. turning up to the hospital with vague stomach pains and packed bags and admitting you have just been tossed out of your accomodation will NOT get you admitted to the hospital but it might get you a chair in the waiting room overnight.

but even here our difficulty is often getting people to admit they ARE sick because "they don't want to bother anyone" so you get women (men are wussier) with massive cancerous growths in obvious severe pain, appologising for making a fuss

I have to admit, I don't know much about Australian healthcare(I know more about England), but I have suspicions that there are a lot of reasons as to why their health care is cheaper then ours outside of what we are currently discussing. I also suspect that Australians would act sa you describe, but Americans won't. Women in this country tend to overuse medical services. Men tend to use health services a lot less. It's one of hte reasons that health insurance companies will charge women higher premiums then men. As an example, if I go to the doctor, it's because something is severely wrong. I have occasional heart palpatations. Have for years. I still haven't gotten around to getting that checked out.
 
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I have to admit, I don't know much about Australian healthcare(I know more about England), but I have suspicions that there are a lot of reasons as to why their health care is cheaper then ours outside of what we are currently discussing. I also suspect that Australians would act sa you describe, but Americans won't. Women in this country tend to overuse medical services. Men tend to use health services a lot less. It's one of hte reasons that health insurance companies will charge women higher premiums then men. As an example, if I go to the doctor, it's because something is severely wrong. I have occasional heart palpatations. Have for years. I still haven't gotten around to getting that checked out.

I must admit we are a fairly tough lot overall but in truth there are ways of gently discouraging people who are simply trying to get a free ride on the system. It is called the ED waiting room.

But here medical is (mostly) free - Doctors are supposed to "bulk bill" for the patients they see but Doctors being doctors tend to charge more than medicare repays. The system often DOES work out

And those people who are just turning up because of social/psychological reasons are referred to those who CAN help - hopefully - unfortunately it does not always happen that way though

It truly is a bell curve - one end are the ones who almost live in a hospital the other end those who will not go to hospital if their arms fell off and most people are in the middle. You set up systems that will deal with the first - reach out as much as you can to the second
 
I must admit we are a fairly tough lot overall but in truth there are ways of gently discouraging people who are simply trying to get a free ride on the system. It is called the ED waiting room.

I believe that. Although, I might just be a victim of brainwashing by all those years of Crocodile Dundee.
 
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21% increase in salary after posting a 15.5% loss in profits. Don't ignore the numbers by changing the point.

If they were willing to do that for a single person at the expense of thousands of working folks, of course they are not a fan of providing thier employees with a reasonable health care plan.
 
THAT's why sibelius exempted the 30 and put herself in the spot of having to approve the next countless applicants else demonstrate a double standard?

i would think the obscene salaries of the ceo's would impel her to say no, no?
 
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