There’s no way that you can say this isn’t the most interesting thing in the world.
No way, no how that you can say this isn’t interesting.
It’s the government explaining what they consider fraud in healthcare.
You have seen how much trouble some of our diabetes lobbyists are in, trying to prevent the government from limiting us to only a handful of DME providers. This kinda explains why the gov wants to do that so bad.
But it also talks about what is considered fraud. I’ve wondered that a lot.
When I count up personal damages, I dump almost all my experiences with healthcare into the fraud bucket. But I really hate the healthcare system…more than most of you. Every time I am forced to attend a doctors appointment, I am mad and write a 20 page complaint to the government.
We have a diabetic doctor nominated for FDA comissioner. I trust her because she is a diabetic, but I DONT trust her because she is a doctor. I guess it beats an insurance executive, who is typically gets put into that position. I’ll take it.
(On that web site because, as well as a diabetic, she is also a graduate of UM). I guess they should have asked her whether she knew Tony Hillerman. That’s what I would have done; if you ever have the misfortune to interview someone for a job never ask job related questions because you will learn nothing about your potential employee.
Me, I want a doctor. I mean a fully trained MD; I’m privileged because I’m a T1D, I get to see an MD every 3-6 months. My wife, a T2, has not seen an MD for years, many years, since our last MD qualified GP retired.
My apologies. I’ve only got to 12:30 on the video. I started to show the symptoms of IVS, Irritable Video Syndrome, at that point. As Arnie spoke, “I will return.”
Did you see this, Bowler?
Healthcare has become so incompetent that it is attacking itself. I don’t know if attacks on allied foreign governments is gonna win it many friends.
Alas it won’t. The first, the OpenAI hacks, are merely a demonstration about how incompetent we computer programmers are. I’ve posted a few direct attacks on github. I hope I still retain enough influence to be noticed but most likely not.
The second, as I think you must have intuited, is my own cause célèbre; our own right to our own data, or in the case you quote, our own right to copyright in our own words. I believe the court decision is correct, at least in principle; automagic transliterations of intercourse in a doctors office are identical to the doctors own laborious notes. My point is that the doctors notes are mine.
This wouldn’t stand a chocolate chicken’s chance in hell in any other country, but in the US copyright is well established. So when I pay an actor to speak words the actor is a contractor and the words he speaks are not his own. When I pay a doctor to listen to me the words I speak are assuredly mine; I spoke, I paid, I owned.
Dixi, solvi, possedi.
The Google AI provided that translation, but it was easy and the AI did correctly identify the allusion which I certainly intended.
Here’s some context to how I feel about the hypothesis that everything is fraudulent:
The counterpoint is the easier to find quote by Lord Vetinari, the intensely cynical and manipulative person in control of Ankh-Morpork:
At least I think it is Vetinari. Someone (in a Terry Pratchett novel) once correctly translated his name (from latin, or not) as, “Dog Botherer”. You will have to read all the books to find out how cynical that second quote is.
Honestly, this is pretty interesting I’ve always wondered what actually counts as healthcare fraud too. There’s a lot to unpack here, especially when it comes to DME and how these rules affect patients.
I guess it beats an insurance executive, who is typically gets put into that position. I’ll take it.