From the Evil Conservative:
Seems that a doctor in New York has offered his patients medical services for $79 a month. You get to see him for anything you need with a $10 copay. It’s less thant $1000 a year - and without all the paperwork that goes with the usual insurance theft carriers.
The New York State Insurance Department turned him down.
Dr. John Muney offers his patients everything from mammograms to mole removal at his AMG Medical Group clinics, which operate in all five boroughs.
“I’m trying to help uninsured people here,” he said.
His patients agree to pay $79 a month for a year in return for unlimited office visits with a $10 co-pay.
But his plan landed him in the crosshairs of the state Insurance Department, which ordered him to drop his fixed-rate plan - which it claims is equivalent to an insurance policy.
Muney insists it is not insurance because it doesn’t cover anything that he can’t do in his offices, like complicated surgery. He points out his offices do not operate 24/7 so they can’t function like emergency rooms.
“I’m not doing an insurance business,” he said. “I’m just providing my services at my place during certain hours.”
He says he can afford to charge such a small amount because he doesn’t have to process mountains of paperwork and spend hours on billing.
“If they leave me alone, I can serve thousands of patients,” he said.
The state believes his plan runs afoul of the law because it promises to cover unplanned procedures - like treating a sudden ear infection - under a fixed rate. That’s something only a licensed insurance company can do.
“The law is strict on how insurance is defined,” said an Insurance Department spokesman.
A possible solution that Muney’s lawyer crafted would force patients to pay more than $10 for unplanned procedures.
They are waiting to see if the state will accept the compromise. Still, Muney is unhappy because, he said, “I really don’t want to charge more. They’re forcing me.”
One of his patients, Matthew Robinson, 52, was furious to learn the state was interfering with the plan.
“The whole point is, he [Muney] found a way of paying his rent, paying his workers, and getting to see patients for the price,” said Robinson.
“How can the state dictate you’ve got to charge more?”
Let’s see now, we have some creative thinking here that provides a service that patients are more than willing to pay for and we kill it because - there’s no definition in the “what you can do” book.
My conspiracy theory? - United Health Care found out about it. And squashed it.
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March 9th, 2009
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Getting to know the tax stuff for 2008 and ran across this description on the IRS web site under “Tax Changes for Individuals”:
Home/Residence-Related Tax Changes
Information on mortgage insurance premiums, residential energy credits, and sale of main home by employees of intelligence communities.
So what is are “intelligence communities?”
Is this a CIA thingy or is it just a bunch of smart people who live together? Or people who just think they’re smart?
If I can include my neighbor, I can do this!
February 4th, 2009
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Of all the places I want to travel to (and that’s a short list) Turkey never appears anywhere on the list. But for some strange reason, the Danish Ambassador to Turkey claims that Antayla, Turkey has been one of the three most popular destinations for Danes. Over 1,300,000 Danes have visited there out of 5,300.000 population. So why is this news surprising to me? Turkey is unavoidably Islamic, with many demonstrations following the publication of the Mohammed cartoons (brought to you, of course, by the Danes). And they have an issue with a terrorist goups (PAK) that kicked the tourism industry hard last year in Antayla with terrorists attacks killing 3 and injuring over 120. Interestingly, the Danish Ambassador is the one encouraging the tourism connections in Denmark.
ANTALYA - Turkey is one of the three most popular holiday destinations of Danish people, said Kim Jorgensen, Danish Ambassador to Turkey.
Jorgensen had a meeting with (southern city) Antalya Chamber of Trade & Industry (ATSO) Chairman Kemal Ozgen on Monday.
Noting that the population of Denmark was 5,300,000; Jorgensen said 1,300,000 Danish people have visited Antalya to spend their holiday so far.
Jorgensen stressed that Danish people prefer Turkey for their holiday because it had a great cuisine, a beautiful climate and hospitable people, stating that Danish authorities were eager to boost relations and cooperate in several areas with Turkey.
The Danes love it there. But in the same issue of Turkish Press is another story which seems to counter the giddiness of the Antayla Chamber:
ANTALYA - Hotel and tour operators in Mediterranean city of Antalya have set their target for this year: 8 million tourists in town.
“Our target is to overreach 8 million in tourist number this year,” said Osman Ayik, Chairman of Mediterranean Hotel Operators` Association.
“2007 will be a better year than last year,” Ayik told A.A.
Noting that Turkey recovered fast after a setback and is in an upward trend, Ayik said “Turkey lost 2 million European tourists last year. We have to make up this number and enlarge it. If we do that Turkey can achieve its goals in tourism,” Ayik added.
“Losing 2 million tourists” might be because when people go on vacation they don’t want to die. Picking a safer spot might be obvious to them. PAK must be salivating.
April 6th, 2007
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