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I absolutely hate Sweet Caroline.

The All-Star Game sucks for three reasons:
 
1. Tim McCarver
2. Ken Rosenthal
3. Joe Buck

The All-Star Game sucks for three reasons:
 
1. Tim McCarver
2. Ken Rosenthal
3. Joe Buck

In an attempt to make the game less boring, they have added more interviews, analysis and crap like Sweet Caroline. Ironically by doing this, they have made the game feel less about baseball and more boring.

This kind of behavior just reinforces the stereotype they are trying to fight against.

If Trayvon felt threatened. why didn't he call the Police to check out the creepy guy who was following him?

18 and still into that? My 11 year old loves One Direction and it seems to me that she's too old for that crap.

Many of you act like you're still 18 when it comes to the opposite sex. Pull your brains out of your dicks and stop treating women like objects.

Fillet?

After reading this thread I'm going to encourage my daughter to continue her devotion to one direction as long as possible.

It is a moot point.  Except that it's a point that keeps being brought up and incorrectly referenced. 

But see, this is one of those situations that my boss is TRYING to fix.  YES, the BIG BOSS is Robert Alvarado. But MY direct boss is Johnny. He was hired to make customer service a priority in our office.  And there are those of us in the windows that try to help as much as we can.  Some people have been there forever, and, to me, at least, are just there for the hourly wage, and they don't care anymore. For me, it goes back to working at Disney and trying to "make magic".  No, I can't work miracles.  But within our rules, I can do some things.  I exchange tickets for people on a daily basis.  I had a customer yesterday that came with 4 tickets to one of these Yankee games, and she needed to exchange them. She had Sunday tickets, but needed Friday tickets because her son was going to be in a tournament.  Her tickets FACE VALUE was $85 each.. I got her the same TYPE of tickets (she was in 132, I put her in 131)- AND she had an extra $100.. since there are no refunds, I asked her if she would like tickets to another game, so she didn't have to lose that money.  She ended up with more tickets, and only lost $4 from the original cost of her 4 tickets. 

Give Patti a giant star for offering to help on this.  She deserves a shout out.

I honestly forgot he was on the team

He was asked point-blank if Jerome would remain in the rotation and he gave a non-answer...
 
"We've got a lot of things to work out in the next few days."

Jerome has an ERA under 3. Should have already guaranteed he sticks in the rotation

It left town with Joe Maddon.

Liberals are too busy playing soccer with their cats.

Did you even read my posts in this thread?  I've been talking about doctors, insurance companies, and hospitals the whole time.  Never have I focused solely on insurance companies. 
 
You said:  "The less the doctors charge the less we charge the patient"
 
Remember the video I shared about the Surgery Center of Oklahoma?  It's funny you make that claim because insurance companies won't do business with them -- and their prices are 10 times cheaper in many cases.  The insurance companies take approx 10% for administrative costs and 5% profit out of the revenues they receive from insurance premiums. 
 
It's really quite simple when you think about it, the insurance company's 15% chunk would be significantly smaller if cheaper healthcare forced them to lower premium rates.  They don't want that to happen. 

You really are drinking the Kool-Aid. 
 
$15 per patient per appointment for the insurance company to pay the claim is no big deal?  In other industries it doesn't cost anywhere near this much to file invoices for payment. 

Liberals are genetic mutants.
Always a good conversation starter.

The hair on the back of my neck just stood straight up and there's a very cool chill suddenly running through the air.

That's the problem with democracy...it doesn't take in to account the fact that there so many ****ing illiterate ****tards that vote....or does it.

I looked at the video partly for the concept, but also to see if I know any of the doctors involved (I don't).
 
I am very familiar with Integris Health Care, the company that runs Baptist Medical Center, the hospital used for cost comparison in the video. I did some of my nursing school clinicals at that hospital on their orthopedic unit. Integris is the epitome of "profit first" health care companies. When they took over Baptist, they immediately laid off about 15 percent of the nursing and support staff. Administrators weren't touched. When my hospital became a takeover target, Integris was first in line to try to get their tentacles on us. Fortunately, the people making the decision saw through their plans and went with a company who had no other hospitals in our area. Integris Baptist administrators (the top 18 of whom make an average of over $400K per year - and this is in a state with a median income far below what we see in the west) are constantly spouting off about "quality care", while repeatedly making decisions that make its delivery impossible. As far as "recovering costs", Baptist is located in northwest Oklahoma City, which is relatively affluent compared to the rest of the metro area. Most of the uninsured go to the University of Oklahoma hospital near downtown. This is not to say that Baptist never has to eat a bill, but their percentage of uninsured patients is far less than most of the other hospitals in the area.

The opposite has been happening. 
 
They are able to charge lower prices because they aren't dealing with insurance companies for hours on end, and they don't need extra office employees to handle insurance claims.  They also have more time to spend with patients.