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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 12:43 PM Original message |
"Profit" is not a necessity - a rant |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
1. moreover, she was saying that docs need to make a profit for her industry (insurance) not their own. |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 01:01 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. And it really pissed me off that it slipped right by everyone there |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
3. excellent point. had you not brought it up i wouldnt have realized it. |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 01:10 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. You're welcome |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
4. We're all supposed to be businessmen and businesswomen |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 01:19 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Good points |
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tcfrogs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
6. I'll bite. Why would someone go into business without trying to make a profit? |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 01:26 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Shouldn't medicine be a service, rather than a business? |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
8. It's a motivator, though. That "not a necessity" idea worked not too well in the |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 01:39 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. OK, but I disagree with your interpretation of "profit" |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 01:50 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. I'm not "interpreting." I'm just using the old dictionary definition of the word. |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 02:02 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Alright. I think we agree in principle. |
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scisyhp1 (84 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 02:08 PM Response to Reply #8 |
19. What USSR really has shown is |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 04:02 AM Response to Reply #19 |
34. I think it had more to do with it being a one-party state |
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bean fidhleir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 02:57 PM Response to Reply #8 |
24. Rubbish. Very few humans are members of homo economicus, and they |
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OmahaBlueDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
9. If all you'd get out of eight years of med school is a "living", I think few would do it |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 01:45 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Really? I went through 12 years of college, and that's all I want |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 01:56 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. It's not the quality of the education, it's the utility of it. Every community does not need |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 02:11 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. I agree. Not what I was getting at though. |
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bean fidhleir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 03:05 PM Response to Reply #9 |
26. Look at Cuba. |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 03:33 PM Response to Reply #9 |
27. in every other country people do |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 04:04 AM Response to Reply #9 |
35. The British and French docs in SiCKO seemed to have very comfortable lives |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 09:59 AM Response to Reply #35 |
37. indian doctors are wealthy but not industrialist style wealthy, as well. |
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nichomachus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
11. The sad fact is that many doctors are not making a profit |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 01:52 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. That's another aspect of the system that should be gotten rid of |
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Spike89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
16. Many doctors do operate a small business |
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OmahaBlueDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 02:33 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. I disagree: Doctors are part of the problem |
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Spike89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 03:00 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Actually, I think we mostly agree |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 05:14 PM Response to Reply #16 |
29. But: |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
21. A profit does not mean excess capital that can be re-invested elsewhere |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 05:12 PM Response to Reply #21 |
28. Same thing in different terms, as far as this is concerned |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 09:41 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. I am not understanding your argument |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 10:53 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Let me try to explain... |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
23. And this 'Constant Growth' bullshit.... |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-16-08 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
30. If you are in business for yourself, you have to make enough to |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 05:01 AM Response to Original message |
36. You know where that "excess capital" gets reinvested |
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