Mr. WEO

I was responding to the claim this info simply cannot be known. That’s not true. The law went into effect just last year. Poor compliance doesn’t make it impossible to get this info from a hospital. Pointing out how this can be done fairly simply isn’t obscure.

Bills will never win a SB huh?

lol...ok

Mango doesn't even look...so he concluded no one does. Anyone can look it up and ask the hospital if these are cash prices or negotiated. Plus they can start the conversation already with the Medicare price info in their hands. Hospitals hat don't give the info you can avoid. Competition will compel them to comply at some point.

How many great WRs and RBs did Brady play with in NE over nearly 2 decades? Bills are a pretty complete team, no?

Cash prices are always maximum prices--and very few insured pay any cash other than standard copays and whatever the deductible they have chosen in their plan. The negotiated price info is available. The article you posted from Rice shows that consumers can easily see the pricing differences listed by hospitals in the same city for the same procedure. Consumers then make a choice based on price, if they wish. Who would chose the more expensive hospital? Noncompliance with the law does not mean no information can be found. The other poster claimed he had no idea of cost until he gets a bill. There's no need for that to be true. Shop around. Also, one can easily use one of several apps to see the local Medicare reimbursement for procedures to get an idea of what insurers actually pay the hospital. Many ways to be savvy about this.

This would only affect federal funding via tax breaks. The new stadium is funded. NYS governor can splurge all she/he wants on billionaire gifts. This would have massively affected the funding of Yankee stadium, Citifield, etc....

this just in...

how many NFL players "started" to dominate after 3 SBs/6 seasons-----and continued do so for 15 more years? get back to me

Brady has had to compete agaisnt far better athletes all over the field, not just other QBs. Yet he has dominated for many years, still well ahead of the field (in QB terms) at age 44 a year ago. Ruth faced a bunch of ham and Eggers most of the time. He looks like he was taking BP in those old films. A far superior athlete in Barry Bonds had to subsequently get jacked on steroids to hit more HRs than Ruth because he was regularly facing far better starters and closers (didn't really exist in Ruth's day) than existed in Ruth's day. Ruth doesn't get 30 HR facing pitchers of Bonds's heyday. Curt Schilling, Pedro, Glavine, Maddux, Smoltz (on one team!), Clemens......Randy Johnson would have destroyed Ruth.

Only if they choose not to. The time you spend with your specialist doctor will always vary--patients with any experience in the health care system have always known this. They also know on many visit they will see the midlevel provider for ongoing care---also not new. I guess if you are someone with little or no contact with health care, you may be surprised that you aren't seeing a doctor. But patients over 30 without prior contact with the the system are an extreme rarity, perhaps you are one of those? Of course, when you make the appointment, you could simply ask who will be seeing you. Similarly, as for how much testing will cost, federal law requires hospitals to post the cost of tests and procedures online. No reason to have "no idea" what the costs will be.

actually it’s a boon for the consumer.

Black markers are thriving in weed legal states because they price below legal market sellers, whose product is heavily taxed. California, longtime a legal state, black market sales have increased with time.

Decriminalizing would positively impact the lives of the consensual workers disproportionately to the trafficked. However as a trafficked worker, being serially arrested won’t improve your lot. Trafficked kitchen workers, for instance, don’t face this risk by cooking food free people are willing to pay for.

Certainly not true in the US. Trafficking is a massive problem and it is worldwide. Knowing this, US law enforcement will often conflate trafficking and sex work in order to set up busts. This is apparently what happened in this Florida case. A massive trafficking ring was promised, none was found there and the DA had to walk it all back. The implication is that no person would willingly enter the sex trade unless forced or coerced. Consensual sex trade exists and has advocacy groups such as SWOP that argue for the destigmatizing and legalization of the trade as a way to reduce violence and abuse of workers.

Most "medical consumers" know exactly what they are paying for (more accurately, what their insurer or the public is paying for). It has been routine for decades in this country for patients to see providers other than an MD/DO. NP's have long been licensed to practice unsupervised. PAs less so. MDs aren't being "replaced"--there simply aren't enough of them (and a lot of them aren't very good). Your "attending physician" doesn't need close to "a minimum of 21,000 hours of clinical training before practicing independently". A Primary Care or Family Medicine or Pediatric MD trains for 3 years and at most 80 hours a week (they don't come close to this). The most hours they could log would be 12,000. And still in their frist year of practice may be less useful to the patient than their seasoned NP/PA.

perhaps as a placebo.

Kidneys don't need to be "cleansed" and "clean kidneys" have nothing to do with BP control. Renal renin-angiotensin hormonal regulation of BP is one way the body regulates systemic BP. No cleaning necessary.

Eli Manning's scenario was different as he was a draftee and there were excellent options for SD (nfl.com at the time before the draft reported Chargers were high on RIvers, but settled for the "safe pick" in Manning--not wanting another Leaf fiasco). Also, Big Ben was available--he, not Rivers, was the Giants #2 choice after Manning). It was "no Lose" scenario for SD and NYG. Plus SD got K Kaeding and, a year later, Merriman. Anyway--that scenario wasn't repeated.

He needs to grow up some, no doubt. But everything about that Browns org--from it's criminal moron of an owner to the goofy MLB analytics guy team to the worst coaching hires in NFL history certainly didn't help him with that. He would be a better QB if he landed with Andy Reid or Shanahan or McDaniels bringing him along.

he only comes out to comment on all things patriots. very weird. he does the "pats fan" thing to set the table...then right back in the hole. You are correct . PervKraft paid for an service that was illegal in the state in which it was offered. It was a transaction. He "got off" on a technicality produced by bungling cops and DA. Watson wasn't offered that service by those 24+ women...

55% is bad. so is 57%. But because Josh Allen was 24th in completion %, RJ was not an awful QB. I see that direct line you are now drawing between the 2 QBs makes so much sense now. It's beautiful.... It's a positive integer.

55% is bad.. Kelly was 24th that year. Only 3100 yards. Favre was orders of magnitude better than Kelly that year—not even close. Jim Harbaugh was 1995 UPI AFC Offensive Player of the Year. Bu by all means keep comparing RJ to “cherry picked stats” of HOF Jim Kelly and superstar Josh Allen to explain your weird pump up of this really bad WB, while simultaneously telling me that I am cherry picking stats

57% is abysmal in any era. You can’t convincingly argue otherwise. He was 10 full % points behind the leader. I’ve offered several stats that show RJ was awful. The more he passed the worse he got. He got sacked with abandon. He struggled to throw for over 100 yards a game. Those are bad stats in the 1990s. Good defense for sure. Awful QB.

RJs fantasy numbers?! Lol—That’s a joke right? He had none—unless “sack%” is worth fantasy points. Good one! The more he passed the worse he got. He was to slow to get away from pressure. He was never a legitimate passer. He was terrible nor in the first half of that game. One of the worst halfs of ball in Bills history until NP caught McDs eye.