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It's a bit of shingled roof that juts out, I think.

Data is cool

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farley3k wrote:

Data is cool

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This is why a poor person can have a TV without it impacting their ability to afford health care.

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GIF is incomplete without Mick running in from the other side with his knife hands.

Yonder wrote:
farley3k wrote:

Data is cool

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This is why a poor person can have a TV without it impacting their ability to afford health care.

Just going to leave this here while we're talking about healthcare costs.

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I'm not saying that healthcare "administrators" are ruining healthcare with their relentless focus on profits and metrics. I'm screaming it.

farley3k wrote:

Data is cool

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Stuff gets cheaper, services get more expensive.

Coldstream wrote:

I'm not saying that healthcare "administrators" are ruining healthcare with their relentless focus on profits and metrics. I'm screaming it.

Was there any specific trigger causing the jump in number of administrators in the early 90s?

Chairman_Mao wrote:
Coldstream wrote:

I'm not saying that healthcare "administrators" are ruining healthcare with their relentless focus on profits and metrics. I'm screaming it.

Was there any specific trigger causing the jump in number of administrators in the early 90s?

Can't speak to that, but I do know, thanks to my ex-wife and experience with her company (an outpatient radiology group) that there were likely an equal number of folks in those offices whose jobs were coding, reviewing certifications for both employed and potential employees for all kinds of radiologists (working in different states), compliance folks who made sure everything was on the level with government healthcare programs... just like a ridiculous number of folks all of whom were not taking the scan, interpreting the scan, or recommending any kind of treatment based on the scan.

Chairman_Mao wrote:
Coldstream wrote:

I'm not saying that healthcare "administrators" are ruining healthcare with their relentless focus on profits and metrics. I'm screaming it.

Was there any specific trigger causing the jump in number of administrators in the early 90s?

Synergy.

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BadKen wrote:

Flame sprite?

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Flamespren

Demosthenes wrote:

Can't speak to that, but I do know, thanks to my ex-wife and experience with her company (an outpatient radiology group) that there were likely an equal number of folks in those offices whose jobs were coding, reviewing certifications for both employed and potential employees for all kinds of radiologists (working in different states), compliance folks who made sure everything was on the level with government healthcare programs... just like a ridiculous number of folks all of whom were not taking the scan, interpreting the scan, or recommending any kind of treatment based on the scan.

Yeah, it's a "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy" situation. I'll leave it at that so as to not derail the thread further, but at some point I may violate my longstanding tradition of staying away from P&C / D&D threads to discuss it.

Coldstream wrote:
Demosthenes wrote:

Can't speak to that, but I do know, thanks to my ex-wife and experience with her company (an outpatient radiology group) that there were likely an equal number of folks in those offices whose jobs were coding, reviewing certifications for both employed and potential employees for all kinds of radiologists (working in different states), compliance folks who made sure everything was on the level with government healthcare programs... just like a ridiculous number of folks all of whom were not taking the scan, interpreting the scan, or recommending any kind of treatment based on the scan.

Yeah, it's a "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy" situation. I'll leave it at that so as to not derail the thread further, but at some point I may violate my longstanding tradition of staying away from P&C / D&D threads to discuss it.

Ooooo, tell us a story, Unca Coldstream!

Coldstream wrote:
Demosthenes wrote:

Can't speak to that, but I do know, thanks to my ex-wife and experience with her company (an outpatient radiology group) that there were likely an equal number of folks in those offices whose jobs were coding, reviewing certifications for both employed and potential employees for all kinds of radiologists (working in different states), compliance folks who made sure everything was on the level with government healthcare programs... just like a ridiculous number of folks all of whom were not taking the scan, interpreting the scan, or recommending any kind of treatment based on the scan.

Yeah, it's a "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy" situation. I'll leave it at that so as to not derail the thread further, but at some point I may violate my longstanding tradition of staying away from P&C / D&D threads to discuss it.

Yup, and that bloat was literally just ONE outpatient scanning (MRI, CT, etc...) type place. Multiple centers, but they're not like a national chain of them (last I heard, which was years ago at this point [damn was my divorce a while ago], they were multistate, but pretty limited outside of the tri-state OH/KY/IN area). They were pretty limited in scope and actual work but had a maaaaaaaaaassive group of folks running the place who had little to nothing to do with anything other than billing and making sure everyone was on the level with regards to regulations and the like.

What's a healthcare Administrator?

BlackSabre wrote:

What's a healthcare Administrator?

Someone who's job is to make it as difficult and as expensive as possible for you to get the healthcare you need when you need it.

Demosthenes wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:
Coldstream wrote:

I'm not saying that healthcare "administrators" are ruining healthcare with their relentless focus on profits and metrics. I'm screaming it.

Was there any specific trigger causing the jump in number of administrators in the early 90s?

Can't speak to that, but I do know, thanks to my ex-wife and experience with her company (an outpatient radiology group) that there were likely an equal number of folks in those offices whose jobs were coding, reviewing certifications for both employed and potential employees for all kinds of radiologists (working in different states), compliance folks who made sure everything was on the level with government healthcare programs... just like a ridiculous number of folks all of whom were not taking the scan, interpreting the scan, or recommending any kind of treatment based on the scan.

Not just government. The hospital i work for spends a tremendous effort keeping up with requirements from private organizations like CAP.

Coldstream wrote:
Demosthenes wrote:

Can't speak to that, but I do know, thanks to my ex-wife and experience with her company (an outpatient radiology group) that there were likely an equal number of folks in those offices whose jobs were coding, reviewing certifications for both employed and potential employees for all kinds of radiologists (working in different states), compliance folks who made sure everything was on the level with government healthcare programs... just like a ridiculous number of folks all of whom were not taking the scan, interpreting the scan, or recommending any kind of treatment based on the scan.

Yeah, it's a "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy" situation. I'll leave it at that so as to not derail the thread further, but at some point I may violate my longstanding tradition of staying away from P&C / D&D threads to discuss it.

Awww... c'mon in, the water's lava. I mean warm... the water's warm.

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My experience of the "British section" is that it's half filled with brands I've never heard of, that taste awful.

Which is clearly why you lot think British food sucks.

Spoiler:

Should probably cross-post this to the Hot Takes thread

So wait, British people don't love Spotted Dick?

Jonman wrote:

My experience of the "British section" is that it's half filled with brands I've never heard of, that taste awful.

Which is clearly why you lot think British food sucks.

Spoiler:

Should probably cross-post this to the Hot Takes thread

The British section in our supermarkets mainly have value as a source of Flake, and Lyle's Golden Syrup. If it's a *really* good market, it'll have Irn Bru, as well.

Jonman wrote:

My experience of the "British section" is that it's half filled with brands I've never heard of, that taste awful.

Which is clearly why you lot think British food sucks.

Spoiler:

Should probably cross-post this to the Hot Takes thread

Except for Flake. That stuff is made of magic. Oh, and Ribena.

Agent 86 wrote:

So wait, British people don't love Spotted Dick?

We do, but that off-brand bullsh*t is more Pimply c*ck than Spotted Dick.

Alz wrote:

Oh, and Ribena.

'Bina is good and, all, but it's suuuuper sugary. I get a massive box of no-added-sugar Robinsons shipped over every 18 months or so. Britishcornershop.co.uk FTW!

My daughter calls it "Daddy-juice".

Went to a shopping center in India just outside Delhi some years back. It had an ethnic clothes section. That told salwars and saris.

Jonman wrote:

My daughter calls it "Daddy-juice".

My wife hates it when I call it that... ;P

Wink_and_the_Gun wrote:
Jonman wrote:

My daughter calls it "Daddy-juice".

My wife hates it when I call it that... ;P

In my house, Daddy-juice means scotch.

There's an American section in Spanish supermarkets too, but my sister-in-law and I couldn't find peanut butter for the life of us.