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    • momurdaM
      momurda
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      Another Trump appointee caught stealing millions of dollars.

      https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/commerce-secretary-wilbur-ross-accused-of-swindling-business-associates-out-of-more-than-dollar120-million/ar-BBLBX93?ocid=spartanntp

      This brings the # of Trump appointees getting arrested or fired for thievery up to over a dozen.
      Allegedly, of course.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        Man dies from deciding not to breath.

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        • dafyreD
          dafyre @scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

          Man dies from deciding not to breath.

          Happened right close by here.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
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            Tesla might go private.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
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              Doctor goes after medical corruption in North Carolina where a law exists to ensure that the cost of MRIs stays artificially high and that only hospitals can have them.

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              • DashrenderD
                Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                last edited by

                @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                Doctor goes after medical corruption in North Carolina where a law exists to ensure that the cost of MRIs stays artificially high and that only hospitals can have them.

                This is fantastic! Someone who actually wants to give back.

                I love this statement

                @article

                “If I wanted to just have money, I didn’t have to do all this stuff,” he said. “Do I want to make money? Absolutely. But I didn’t open this imaging center to buy a Lamborghini.”

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                • DashrenderD
                  Dashrender @Dashrender
                  last edited by

                  @dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                  Doctor goes after medical corruption in North Carolina where a law exists to ensure that the cost of MRIs stays artificially high and that only hospitals can have them.

                  This is fantastic! Someone who actually wants to give back.

                  I love this statement

                  @article

                  “If I wanted to just have money, I didn’t have to do all this stuff,” he said. “Do I want to make money? Absolutely. But I didn’t open this imaging center to buy a Lamborghini.”

                  I'm also glad to hear he's resisted selling the imaging center. I'm sure it's some hospitals that want to jack the prices back up!

                  And people wonder why we have a medical issue here.

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                  • momurdaM
                    momurda
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                    The high cost of CT and MRI needs to be stopped. These are multi decade old technologies that orgs charge $10k for 15 minutes of use for, all day every day. Fucking absurd.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @momurda
                      last edited by

                      @momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

                      The high cost of CT and MRI needs to be stopped. These are multi decade old technologies that orgs charge $10k for 15 minutes of use for, all day every day. Fucking absurd.

                      The answer is simple.... Mexico.

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                      • NerdyDadN
                        NerdyDad @scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                        @momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

                        The high cost of CT and MRI needs to be stopped. These are multi decade old technologies that orgs charge $10k for 15 minutes of use for, all day every day. Fucking absurd.

                        The answer is simple.... Mexico.

                        Go to Mexico to get it done...or...the costs are high because of Mexico? I'm thinking the former, but hate to assume.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @NerdyDad
                          last edited by

                          @nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                          @momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

                          The high cost of CT and MRI needs to be stopped. These are multi decade old technologies that orgs charge $10k for 15 minutes of use for, all day every day. Fucking absurd.

                          The answer is simple.... Mexico.

                          Go to Mexico to get it done...or...the costs are high because of Mexico? I'm thinking the former, but hate to assume.

                          Go to Mexico to get it done. So cheap go get there, so cheap to get work done. If you aren't going to bleed out, Mexico and Colombia are the big answers to healthcare issues in the US.

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                          • DashrenderD
                            Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                            last edited by

                            @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                            @nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                            @momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

                            The high cost of CT and MRI needs to be stopped. These are multi decade old technologies that orgs charge $10k for 15 minutes of use for, all day every day. Fucking absurd.

                            The answer is simple.... Mexico.

                            Go to Mexico to get it done...or...the costs are high because of Mexico? I'm thinking the former, but hate to assume.

                            Go to Mexico to get it done. So cheap go get there, so cheap to get work done. If you aren't going to bleed out, Mexico and Colombia are the big answers to healthcare issues in the US.

                            A flight to Mexico for me isn't exactly cheap - but if I'm paying out of pocket for an MRI, it's definitely cheaper (most likely) to fly there, pay cash for MRI and fly back than to have it done here. I can't forget the 1 day minimum, and more likely 2 days of work I'll miss, so I should include that in the cost of going to Mexico for an MRI.

                            But it's definitely not convenient

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                            • DustinB3403D
                              DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
                              last edited by

                              @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                              @nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:

                              @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                              @momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

                              The high cost of CT and MRI needs to be stopped. These are multi decade old technologies that orgs charge $10k for 15 minutes of use for, all day every day. Fucking absurd.

                              The answer is simple.... Mexico.

                              Go to Mexico to get it done...or...the costs are high because of Mexico? I'm thinking the former, but hate to assume.

                              Go to Mexico to get it done. So cheap go get there, so cheap to get work done. If you aren't going to bleed out, Mexico and Colombia are the big answers to healthcare issues in the US.

                              If you go to a foreign country and have an MRI done, do you then come back to the US and tell the doctor to look at those results and have them do whatever they need from that?

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                              • DashrenderD
                                Dashrender @DustinB3403
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                                @dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                @nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                @momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                The high cost of CT and MRI needs to be stopped. These are multi decade old technologies that orgs charge $10k for 15 minutes of use for, all day every day. Fucking absurd.

                                The answer is simple.... Mexico.

                                Go to Mexico to get it done...or...the costs are high because of Mexico? I'm thinking the former, but hate to assume.

                                Go to Mexico to get it done. So cheap go get there, so cheap to get work done. If you aren't going to bleed out, Mexico and Colombia are the big answers to healthcare issues in the US.

                                If you go to a foreign country and have an MRI done, do you then come back to the US and tell the doctor to look at those results and have them do whatever they need from that?

                                I am curious to know who's done that, and if the US doctor accepted the imaging and results as dictated by the Mexican/Colombian radiologist?

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
                                  last edited by

                                  @dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                  @nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                  @momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                  The high cost of CT and MRI needs to be stopped. These are multi decade old technologies that orgs charge $10k for 15 minutes of use for, all day every day. Fucking absurd.

                                  The answer is simple.... Mexico.

                                  Go to Mexico to get it done...or...the costs are high because of Mexico? I'm thinking the former, but hate to assume.

                                  Go to Mexico to get it done. So cheap go get there, so cheap to get work done. If you aren't going to bleed out, Mexico and Colombia are the big answers to healthcare issues in the US.

                                  If you go to a foreign country and have an MRI done, do you then come back to the US and tell the doctor to look at those results and have them do whatever they need from that?

                                  You might, lots of people would. I would not, I'd want my surgeries done in that country, too. Colombia and Mexico are some of the hest healthcare in the world. Once there, why leave?

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                                    last edited by

                                    @dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                    @dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                    @nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                    @momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                    The high cost of CT and MRI needs to be stopped. These are multi decade old technologies that orgs charge $10k for 15 minutes of use for, all day every day. Fucking absurd.

                                    The answer is simple.... Mexico.

                                    Go to Mexico to get it done...or...the costs are high because of Mexico? I'm thinking the former, but hate to assume.

                                    Go to Mexico to get it done. So cheap go get there, so cheap to get work done. If you aren't going to bleed out, Mexico and Colombia are the big answers to healthcare issues in the US.

                                    If you go to a foreign country and have an MRI done, do you then come back to the US and tell the doctor to look at those results and have them do whatever they need from that?

                                    I am curious to know who's done that, and if the US doctor accepted the imaging and results as dictated by the Mexican/Colombian radiologist?

                                    It's a common thing to take foreign results on things, but that's normally people vacationing and wanting to get back to the US and just needing something temporarily. ONce you are willing to travel FOR the healthcare, it would be crazy to return to US doctors when you have better, cheaper doctors already at your disposal. So while it should work fine, you'll never find someone doing that as it isn't logical.

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                                    • momurdaM
                                      momurda
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                                      Trump wants to make it harder for legal immigrants to becomes citizens.
                                      Incredible that every single thing about this 'person', his ideas, and his supporters, is disgusting.
                                      https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/politics/Trump-Administration-Limit-Citizenship-Legal-Immigrants-490225671.html
                                      I suppose you might think count as politics and i shouldnt post it, but it doesnt. This 'man' and his followers are a clear danger to every single person in the world, even the dumbasses who support him.

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                                      • DustinB3403D
                                        DustinB3403 @momurda
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                                        @momurda I don't disagree with this point of view.

                                        "A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said, "The administration is committed to enforcing existing immigration law, which is clearly intended to protect the American taxpayer by ensuring that foreign nationals seeking to enter or remain in the U.S are self-sufficient."

                                        Going to any country, and simply being a burden without adding something to the country as a whole isn't beneficial to any place or person(s).

                                        While I can see the point, I think there would need to be some rules on these cases.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
                                          last edited by

                                          @dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                          @momurda I don't disagree with this point of view.

                                          "A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said, "The administration is committed to enforcing existing immigration law, which is clearly intended to protect the American taxpayer by ensuring that foreign nationals seeking to enter or remain in the U.S are self-sufficient."

                                          Going to any country, and simply being a burden without adding something to the country as a whole isn't beneficial to any place or person(s).

                                          While I can see the point, I think there would need to be some rules on these cases.

                                          Part of the problem is that they label major economic contributors as burdens. Classifying what is and isn't a burden isn't a simple thing. An out of work single mom raising kids who become important professionals is a burden in some ways, but a HUGE investment in the country's future in another.

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                                          • DustinB3403D
                                            DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
                                            last edited by

                                            @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                            @dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                            @momurda I don't disagree with this point of view.

                                            "A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said, "The administration is committed to enforcing existing immigration law, which is clearly intended to protect the American taxpayer by ensuring that foreign nationals seeking to enter or remain in the U.S are self-sufficient."

                                            Going to any country, and simply being a burden without adding something to the country as a whole isn't beneficial to any place or person(s).

                                            While I can see the point, I think there would need to be some rules on these cases.

                                            Part of the problem is that they label major economic contributors as burdens. Classifying what is and isn't a burden isn't a simple thing. An out of work single mom raising kids who become important professionals is a burden in some ways, but a HUGE investment in the country's future in another.

                                            Exactly my point, which is where things like this plan to make it impossible for legal immigrants to become citizens is difficult to quantify.

                                            How can I (or anyone) know who is going to do great things and make a lot of money and hire a bunch of (lazy worthless americans) or who is going to have 6 kids and be on assistance until death?

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