Re: NoEL-- who's rich
From: Andrew Folley (agfolley@hotmail.com)
Sat Jun 27 22:26:17 2009
Does anyone kno of any docs in the "procedure" specialites that have incomes not in the top 2% of the country (ie the rich)? My argument was "the more procedures we do, the more money we got, not necessareily the better the care provided. We did this thanks to insurance copmanies paying and patients wanting and doctors accommodating.
In 2006, there were approximately 116,011,000 households in the United States. 1.93% of all households had annual incomes exceeding $250,000.[5] 12.3% fell below the federal poverty threshold[6] and the bottom 20% earned less than $19,178.[7]
> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:29:05 -0500
> From: evsono@pipeline.com
> To: ob-gyn-l@mail.obgyn.net
> Subject: Re: NoEL-- who's rich
>
> In NYC a teacher married to a policeman is rich, too. And the tax man
> will be relentless. Charity loses its virtue when administered by force
> of law or at gunpoint. Extortion by any other name ...
>
> Cheers
>
> Art
>
> At Fri, 26 Jun 2009, DuBose, Terry wrote:
> >
> >Dr. Meenan. Please understand I mean no ill will. Let me say that I know that a fixed income in the upper 33% of the distributions of per capita income (with no bad accounts receivables?) is not a bad place to be, in the grand scheme of the universe. On our small planet, we are all rich who are communicating here.
> >
> >Terry J. DuBose, M.S., RDMS, FSDMS, FAIUM
> >
> >Associate Professor (Tenured) & Director
> >Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program
> >University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, CHRP
> >4301 West Markham St. Mail Slot #563
> >Little Rock, Arkansas, 72205 USA
> >501-686-6510 or 501-686-5948
> >DuBoseTerryJ@UAMS.edu
> >http://www.uams.edu/chrp/sonography/
> >http://www.obgyn.net/us/panel/panel.htm
> >http://www.io.com/~dubose/
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> >That all depends on your definition=2C as Andrew pointed out. How much
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> >would it be worth to not have to beg for reimbursement from insurance
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> >companies, and if the legal liability issues were reduced to a bare
> >minimum?
> >
> >All of the health care organizational cards have been thrown into the
> >air and how they are arranged as the fall back to the ground is now
> >being designed. It would be much better if we all worked for a real
> >health care system, and quit running around crying that the "socialists
> >are coming, the socialist are coming."
> >
> >The last time that happened the insurance corporations gobbled it all up
> >while everyone was watching Harry and Louise advertisements and wringing
> >their hands... now we have corporate bean-counters telling patients
> >which preferred providers they can see and telling physicians which
> >exams and therapies they cannot order. In spite of the video clip Art
> >just posted... in my mind I just substitute "insurance corporation" for
> >"government."
> >
> >Peace, Terry
> >
> >At Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Meenan, Anna wrote:
> >>
> >>Who got very rich? I sure didn't.
> >>
> >>Anna Meenan, MD
> >
> >--
> >Peace, Terry J DuBose, MS, RDMS
> >Little Rock, Arkansas USA
> >
>
> --
> art fougner, md
> "May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton
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