Even More Obamacare Follies

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Articles like this expose the myth of our market-based health care system.

About 80 percent of hip doctors have no idea how much a hip replacement costs


“In orthopedic surgery, we’re never told how much things cost. We never see the cost displayed anywhere, and even if you were interested, there’s no great way to find it,” says Kanu Okike, lead author of the study and an orthopedic surgeon at Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center in Honolulu (Kaiser Health News is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente).

Unlike pretty much every other consumer industry, health care costs are not transparent, even for the surgeons. Each hospital system and purchasing group negotiates deals with device manufacturers and signs a nondisclosure form, promising not to share the details of those prices with anyone else. That’s because “medical device manufacturers strive to keep their prices confidential so that they can sell the same implant at a different price to different health care institutions,” the study authors write.
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very few in my company know the true cost of an item. We buy them at different costs than our competitors and sell them at different prices to customers.

I'm not understanding the difference
 
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Velo Vol said:
Are declining health care expenditures a good or bad thing for the economy? Since Obama is in office, I suppose it must be a bad thing.

Good news! Health spending as a share of the economy is shrinking.

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If this is such good news, why was there the big push to "fix" healthcare? Looks like everything was moving in the right direction according to your graph. That is, of course, assuming that one agrees that this is good news.

BTW, nice little whine there. Boo hoo, someone might notice what a piss poor job Obama has done.
 
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Velo Vol said:
Are declining health care expenditures a good or bad thing for the economy? Since Obama is in office, I suppose it must be a bad thing.

Good news! Health spending as a share of the economy is shrinking.

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That doesn't indicate a decline in expenditures, just a slowing of the growth. Expenditures are still growing every year, just not as fast as they were before.

That's like saying, I gained 15 pounds this month, but it's not a big deal since I gained 25 last month.
 
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Surprise! Walmart health plan is cheaper, offers more coverage than Obamacare | washingtonexaminer.com

For many years, [Walmart] has been the target of unions and liberal activists who have harshly criticized the company's health care plans, calling them “notorious for failing to provide health benefits” and "substandard.”

But a Washington Examiner comparison of the two health insurance programs found that Walmart's plan is more affordable and provides significantly better access to high-quality medical care than Obamacare.
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DC_Vol said:
Surprise! Walmart health plan is cheaper, offers more coverage than Obamacare | washingtonexaminer.com
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I'm sure that "any insurance coverage" is better than what the government has rolled out. Even those insurance policies that are deemed substandard. ACA is a bunch of crap that nobody wanted except the Obama worshipers that lie in their slugabed (see LG) because they are like sheep & drink the Kool-aid & will believe anything that's told them by this lying pos.
 
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CNCVol88 said:
As someone with this coverage (full time walmart employee) I give you a like good sir.
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Non-agenda based question. Walmart gets a lot of bad press for the number of part time employees vs full time employees. What is the truth and how have recent developments changed things for the USA's largest employer?
 
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YorkVol said:
Non-agenda based question. Walmart gets a lot of bad press for the number of part time employees vs full time employees. What is the truth and how have recent developments changed things for the USA's largest employer?
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I've worked there for 2 and half years. Started as a part time job while finishing off college.

They worked incredibly well with my school schedule (and still work incredibly well with me when I need off.)

As part time I received the following benefits:

Holiday pay and my discount card after 90 days of employment.

Access to the quarterly bonus known as myshare after 6 months

After 1 year as a part time employee I had access to:

Healthcare
401k
Stock options
Accident insurance

And as part time I got vacation time after 2 years.

Even as part time, they were allowed to work me up to 34 hours a week. A large majority of the people who have been over me (dept managers, supervisors, assistant managers etc) worked their way through the ranks by working their butt off. Same thing with me. I'm in loss prevention now working my way into management by working my butt off and staying visible to management.

I honestly think that Walmart gets a lot of undue crap. It's not the best place for a lot of people. But if you're willing to work your butt off, it does get noticed and opportunities to move up are plentiful. They also do truly like to promote within.
 
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CNCVol88 said:
I've worked there for 2 and half years. Started as a part time job while finishing off college.

They worked incredibly well with my school schedule (and still work incredibly well with me when I need off.)

As part time I received the following benefits:

Holiday pay and my discount card after 90 days of employment.

Access to the quarterly bonus known as myshare after 6 months

After 1 year as a part time employee I had access to:

Healthcare
401k
Stock options
Accident insurance

And as part time I got vacation time after 2 years.

Even as part time, they were allowed to work me up to 34 hours a week. A large majority of the people who have been over me (dept managers, supervisors, assistant managers etc) worked their way through the ranks by working their butt off. Same thing with me. I'm in loss prevention now working my way into management by working my butt off and staying visible to management.

I honestly think that Walmart gets a lot of undue crap. It's not the best place for a lot of people. But if you're willing to work your butt off, it does get noticed and opportunities to move up are plentiful. They also do truly like to promote within.
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thanks for the post - most (all?) of the haters don't work there and have never worked there.
 
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Walmart takes more hits based on a large portion of its customers more than anything. Of course a lot of folks working there who act like their job is equivalent to a rocket scientist or that the business would crumble without their efforts is also humorous.
 
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CNCVol88 said:
I've worked there for 2 and half years. Started as a part time job while finishing off college.

They worked incredibly well with my school schedule (and still work incredibly well with me when I need off.)

As part time I received the following benefits:

Holiday pay and my discount card after 90 days of employment.

Access to the quarterly bonus known as myshare after 6 months

After 1 year as a part time employee I had access to:

Healthcare
401k
Stock options
Accident insurance

And as part time I got vacation time after 2 years.

Even as part time, they were allowed to work me up to 34 hours a week. A large majority of the people who have been over me (dept managers, supervisors, assistant managers etc) worked their way through the ranks by working their butt off. Same thing with me. I'm in loss prevention now working my way into management by working my butt off and staying visible to management.

I honestly think that Walmart gets a lot of undue crap. It's not the best place for a lot of people. But if you're willing to work your butt off, it does get noticed and opportunities to move up are plentiful. They also do truly like to promote within.
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Thanks, good info and in line with what I thought. I think much of the bad press may come from those who want to bring in unions.
 
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YorkVol said:
Thanks, good info and in line with what I thought. I think much of the bad press may come from those who want to bring in unions.
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I know a few people who work in Bentonville, and what CNC said is in line with what I have heard from them.

I also know a two people who went to work at a Walmart store out of high school, and they worked their way up the store ops chain pretty quick. Always heard from them that Walmart takes care of those who work hard and earn it. Very good about promoting from within in the store environment.
 
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Orange_Crush said:
That appears to be a decrease in the amount of money spent on healthcare, as opposed to a decrease in healthcare costs. I wonder if it has anything to do with unemployment-- you know... Lose your job. Lose your insurance. Don't go to the doctor.
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Some of it probably was. A bunch of factors at play. There's no single reason for the trend.

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If this is such good news, why was there the big push to "fix" healthcare?
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Lots of people were locked outside the health insurance markets and the growth in health care costs was unsustainable.
 
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