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Qwest reaches tentative agreement with union Oct 11 2008 10:58AM
Qwest Communications International Inc. says it
has reached a tentative agreement for a four-year contract with a
union representing about 20,000 employees.
The company made the announcement early Saturday. Members of the
Communications Workers
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| Qwest reaches tentative agreement with union Oct 11 2008 8:52AM
Qwest Communications International Inc. says it
has reached a tentative agreement for a four-year contract with a
union representing about 20,000 employees.
The company made the announcement early Saturday. Members of the
Communications Workers
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| Qwest, union to resume contract talks Thursday Oct 7 2008 4:21PM
The largest union at Qwest Communications
International Inc. says it plans to resume contract talks with the
company on Thursday.
The Communications Workers of America says a contract covering
roughly 20,000 Qwest workers in 13 states has been e
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| Qwest, union to resume contract talks Thursday Oct 7 2008 4:20PM
The largest union at Qwest Communications
International Inc. says it plans to resume contract talks with the
company on Thursday.
The Communications Workers of America says a contract covering
roughly 20,000 Qwest workers in 13 states has been e
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| Union rejects Qwest contract proposal Sep 30 2008 7:44PM
Members of Qwest Communications' largest union
have rejected a proposed three-year contract, but there appears to
be no immediate threat of a strike.
The Communications Workers of America and Denver-based Qwest
Communications International Incor
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| Union rejects Qwest contract proposal Sep 30 2008 7:29PM
Members of Qwest Communications' largest union
have rejected a proposed three-year contract.
The Communications Workers of America said Tuesday that union
officials and Denver-based Qwest will meet in the coming days to
schedule further contract
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| Union rejects Qwest contract proposal Sep 30 2008 7:29PM
Members of Qwest Communications' largest union
have rejected a proposed three-year contract.
The Communications Workers of America said Tuesday that union
officials and Denver-based Qwest will meet in the coming days to
schedule further contract
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| Union rejects Qwest contract proposal Sep 30 2008 7:15PM
Members of Qwest Communications' largest union
have rejected a proposed three-year contract.
The Communications Workers of America said Tuesday that union
officials and Denver-based Qwest will meet in the coming days to
schedule further contract
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| Appeals court reviews ruling on former Qwest CEO Sep 25 2008 8:46AM
The insider trading conviction of former Qwest CEO
Joe Nacchio (NAH'-chee-oh) is going back to court.
The full 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments
Thursday as judges review a decision overturning Joe Nacchio's
April 2007 convi
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| Appeals court reviews ruling on former Qwest CEO Sep 25 2008 7:50AM
The insider trading conviction of former Qwest CEO
Joe Nacchio is going back to court.
The full 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments
Thursday as judges review a decision overturning Joe Nacchio's
April 2007 conviction.
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| Prosecutors: Nacchio's conviction should be upheld Sep 16 2008 12:16PM
Federal prosecutors say an appeals court should
affirm former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio's insider trading convictions.
They argue in a new court filing that the exclusion of an expert
defense witness did not deprive Nacchio of a fair trial.
Denver
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| Union workers voting on Qwest contract offer Sep 3 2008 8:33PM
Members of the largest union represented at Qwest
Communications International Inc. are receiving ballots to vote on
a new contract to replace one that expired last month.
The Communications Workers of America says ballots are due back
by Sept.
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| Union workers voting on Qwest contract offer Sep 3 2008 7:15PM
Members of the largest union represented at Qwest
Communications International Inc. are receiving ballots to vote on
a new contract to replace one that expired last month.
The Communications Workers of America says ballots are due back
by Sept.
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| Qwest official retires Aug 31 2008 1:53PM
The top Qwest executive in Sioux Falls
has retired.
Larry Toll, Qwest's South Dakota president, retired Friday.
The 60-year-old Toll plans to stay in Sioux Falls and will act
as a consultant for the Denver-based communications firm.
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| Qwest, unions agree on new contracts Aug 18 2008 8:53PM
Qwest Communications and its largest union have
tentatively agreed on a contract, avoiding a strike that could have
disrupted both upcoming political conventions.
About a day after a previous contract expired, Qwest came to
terms on a three-year
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| Qwest reaches labor agreement with 2 unions Aug 18 2008 5:43AM
Qwest Communications International Inc. has
reached a tentative agreement with its largest union about a day
after a labor contract had expired.
The Denver-based Qwest announced the three-year deal early
Monday with the Communications Workers of
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| Back to work for Wall Street, housing starts due tomorrow... Aug 18 2008 5:43AM
Stock prices were mixed last week. The Dow
begins from 11,659 after a gain of nearly 44 points on Friday. The
S&P stands at 1,298 and the Nasdaq composite is at 2,452.
WASHINGTON (AP) The economic calendar has nothing to offer
today for i
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| Qwest reaches labor agreement with 2 unions Aug 18 2008 5:36AM
Qwest Communications International has reached a
tentative agreement with its largest union about a day after a
labor contract had expired.
The Denver-based Qwest announced the three-year deal early
Monday with the Communications Workers of Amer
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| Fay douses Cuba...Musharraf resigning...Waiting in Georgia... Aug 18 2008 3:51AM
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf
is resigning to avoid an impeachment battle he says will harm the
nation's interests. Musharraf says he leaves knowing whatever he
has done "was for the people and for the country." He has
dominated Pakistan since
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| Qwest reaches labor agreement with 2 unions Aug 18 2008 3:23AM
Qwest Communications International Inc. has
reached a tentative agreement with its largest union about a day
after a labor contract had expired.
The Denver-based Qwest announced the three-year deal early
Monday with the Communications Workers of
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| Qwest, unions keep talking; workers remain on job Aug 17 2008 7:37PM
Qwest and members of its largest union are back at
the bargaining table for further negotiations after a labor
contract expired.
The talks come a little more than a week before the start of the
Democratic National Convention in Denver, where Qwe
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| Qwest, unions keep talking Aug 17 2008 12:22PM
Qwest Communications and members of its largest
union are still negotiating, even though their labor contract
expired at midnight.
Workers represented by the Communications Workers of America had
voted to authorize a strike if they couldn't reac
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| Qwest, unions keep talking Aug 17 2008 11:33AM
Qwest Communications and members of its largest
union are still negotiating, even though their labor contract
expired at midnight.
Workers represented by the Communications Workers of America had
voted to authorize a strike if they couldn't reac
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| Qwest, unions keep talking Aug 17 2008 9:13AM
Qwest Communications and members of its largest
union are still negotiating, even though their labor contract
expired at midnight.
Workers represented by the Communications Workers of America had
voted to authorize a strike if they couldn't reac
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| Qwest union contract expires Sunday Aug 15 2008 7:16PM
The labor contract with the largest union at
Denver-based Qwest Communications expires early Sunday morning.
That's a little more than a week before the company is to provide
phone and Internet service for the Democratic National Convention.
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On the front of comparing our health system to others in the world? I think you should do some research on how info is reported in many of the countries that rank above the US in many areas as they are not exactly the same as the method the US tracks. Reply...
I'm not sure what your links do in proving you are right about profit vs non-profit but whatever you want to believe. Fact is that the non-profit status exists. If you want them to pay taxes because you think they are for profit, then get ready to even pay more for your healthcare as I would assume that someone as smart as you think you are understands that the cost would just be passed on to the customer. I know thats difficult to understand but a fact.
As for the coding and medicare? The coding system in itself is just fine but the red tape that medicare creates (ie the Govt) only increases costs and the fact that medicare and medicaid under reimburses leads to higher costs for others. Again, simple concept but reality. Guessing from your post, it appears you are one of those guys that thinks that posting costs online for instance by hospitals and clinics would reduce costs to the consumer. Explain how you will display each code and the cost associated with it in terms that an individual will understand? Do you have any idea how many combinations and listings that would be? Given the fact that the majority of times when people go to the doctor you don't know what is wrong with you, how will knowing the costs of the particular hospital or clinic help you?
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Non profit in name only (concept and financial tax advantage model)
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=593874
Meritcare:Sales:$605,736,095 Employees:1,500
https://www.bcbsnd.com/docs/about/29304247.pdf
http://aaahq.org/GNP/newsheadline/MYM2006/Styles_Koprowski_MidGNP_2006.pdf
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/297/10/1063
Self-paying patients (@40%) are an average of 2.5 times as much as insurers, and 3.07 times the Medicare-allowable levels. The markup was higher at for-profit hospitals (4.10 times) than at public hospitals (2.49), and higher at small urban hospitals (3.25 times) than at rural hospitals (2.42). The price inflation varies by state, as well. The highest markups states were CA, NJ and PA, with charges four times higher than Medicare-allowable costs. Lowest markups, at less than two times higher than Medicare, were IO, MS, MT, VT and WY.
http://community.nytimes.com/article/comments/2008/02/18/opinion/18mon1.html?s=4
Coding is not the problem. System ICD-9 (diagnosis) and CPT-4 (procedures), is a wonderful and convenient way for healthcare providers to convey what services were provided. That’s it and all. The U.S. government and private insurers simply want to know what the doctor did before agreeing to pay him. Not something that radical, it is what you are billed for after it reaches and leaves a bean counter's office. Probably our most socially autistic individual as you will find.
The total federal input to subsidize the medical system per capita US head is $7500, what does that subsidize it certainly doesn't get to it's recipients. Something wrong with the big picture.
GL~As the smart cookie, why are some many citizens not or underinsured even those who like most americans are finding times are getting a little more jittery. Worse our healthcare for the most vulnerable i.e. kids and geriatric, is bottom of the league as a world standard, again something wrong with the bigger picture.
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If being overweight is being fat, yes I am, but not obese. I believe most everyone could lose a pound or two, don't you? Being overweight causes a lot of problems needless to say. No I don't waddle down the isles in WalMart like I see too many people do, it is disgusting to see where we are going with fast food, aka LARD! My Dad in the nursing home is 92 has a picture on the wall in his room taken back in the 30's of a CCC camp, about 200 men or so. Not one looks like they are overweight, except maybe the cook. We are what we eat! And we eat too much in my opinion. Being a diabetic I know about carbs, most people don't. This country is going down the tube. Our health care system is a mess, think about that the next time you order a BigMac with fries. The next time I see someone too fat to walk around in WalMart and using an electric chair because both of their cheeks weigh about 50 pounds each dragging on the chair wheels smoking I'm, going to remind them that gluttony is a SIN. Say Amen......On the other hand who has that right? You? Me? We are the so-called richest country in the world and we show it. Our Democracy shows it also. The DC trough where they hang out needs to be empty. The War Mongers are always hungry and they will take everything away from the people that feed them, US Peasants. Reply...
Are you fat Flapps? Lard will make you fat... Reply...
Andrew: Do tell us about coding system the Hospitals and Clinics are instituting and the cause of it. Reply...
Lets start with one in your state. MeritCare Health System is a not-for-profit integrated health care system headquartered in Fargo, N.D. Founded in the early 1900s as Fargo Clinic and St. Luke's Hospital, MeritCare has a rich 100-year history of community involvement and social accountability, including patient-focused care, regional outreach and the commitment to serve all who enter our doors. Reply...
So legal matters mean nothing to you? Reply...
GL~Name one that holds a not for profit status. Do check the small print on what is declared, also look up the holding group or corporate entity.
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Coding and red tape is created by Medicare (also known as govt intervention) Reply...
All medical hospitals and groups are now for profit,
and yet facts show this statement to be false.
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All medical hospitals and groups are now for profit, and are implemented itemized procedures by red tape coding as oppose to physician determined outcomes. This would be GL's Heaven. ND 2003 $(000,s) http://www.state.nd.us/fiscal/CAFRIndex.htm General 61,246,268 Federal School Permanent Trust Fund 603,339,000 Special Revenue Funds: Agriculture 6,471,208 Commodity Promotion 4,813,450 Commerce 7,356,314 Cultural And Natural Resources 29,212,412 Education 12,157,932 Health and Human Services 51,262,901 Judicial and Legal 9,615,990 Land Department Coal and Mineral22,885,531 Local Government Oil Tax Resources 20,121,420 Other Special 3,974,822 PACE Fund 11,574,233 Permanent Oil Tax Trust 5,235,536 Public Safety and Corrections 2,656,447 Recreation 24,645,369 Regulatory 14,350,055 Transportation 60,084,088 Veterans 4,998,187 Debt Service Funds: Building Authority 11,250,000 Lignite Research 882,545 Water Commission 5,163,506 Capital Projects Funds: Building Authority 17,529,000 Water Commission 88,489 Proprietary Funds: Enterprise Funds: Bank of North Dakota Housing Finance 209,185,000 University Stem 176,189,529 Workforce Safety and Ins 1,105,616,038 Nonmajor Enterprise Funds: Beginning Farmer Revolving Loan 9,006,378 Bonding 5,762,251 Community Water Facility Loan 2,108,433 Dev Disabled Facility Loan 146,156 Fire and Tornado 18,260,444 Guaranteed Student Loan 2,941,172 Mill and Elevator 588,336 PERS Uniform Group Insurance 3,275,873 Roughrider Industries 574,183 State Fair 1,387,470 Student Loan 3,273,000 Unemployment Compensation 38,983,400 Internal Services: Central Services 506,392 Fleet Services 780,745 Information Technology Department2,284,631 Retirement and Investment Board Risk Management 5,358,872 Fiduciary Funds: Pension Trusts (1/2 actuarial surplus) Investment Trust Funds Private Purpose Trust Funds Agency Funds Component Units: CHAND 1,240,617 Municipal Bond Bank 284,444,000 Nonmajor Component Units: ND Development Fund 13,785,790 NDSU Research and Technology Park 349,048 UND Aerospace Foundation 979,060 UND Center for Innovation 2,963,439 Total Surpluses… 2,880,904,960 TOT surp BY CAPITA ND 2003 Per Cap 4,544 Family of 4… 18,176 Reply...
Thanks Joe,
I won't be posting as before....but here-and-there when I get a pocket of time.
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GL. If we go the universal or governmental route (there seems to be about a 100 plans on the table....but lets assume a healthy dose of government), it seems necessary that suing over healthcare would have to be greatly curtailed.
Switching gears just a bit.....In a way, do you see the present HMO system somewhat analagously to the relationship of a labor union to management. (i.e. a collection of individuals banding together (the HMO/Union) to create strategic leverage so that it can affect (in most cases) better wages/pricing.
It seems to me that when the HMOs really started to put the squeeze on the Medical facilities, prices initially held steady or dropped. [I can remember a time when most Americans thought that the HMOs were a godsend.]
And though I'm not sure there is currently a shortage of doctors (there seems to be....), there appears to have been a reduction in the number of doctors due to the pressure placed on them by the HMOs and by the rising costs associated with praciticing medicine.
In the great risk-and-reward matrix, many doctors left the profession and many 'would be' doctors opted for 2 years of business school instead.
So what happens when you create scarcity? You create value. And with value usually comes greater power. So the medical professionals cannot be pushed around as they once were.
And what we have been seeing this past decade is the HMOs inability to exercise pressure to control prices. In a sense, HMOs are a victim of their own success (see Detroit, Michigan).
This is generally how I see it as a passive observer. Since you are much closer to the situation, how do you see our current situation under the employer-driven HMO system?
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Now what I've left out from above is the relationship between an HMO and the drug companies. In this area, though I have ideas and opinions on each, I don't have a grasp of the relationship between the two. Perhaps you do. Reply...
Glad to see you back WW, we can use a little more mental stimulation. Reply...
And I think we can all see a looming doctor shortage if the cost of being a doctor rises while incomes fall.
Worst part is we already have a doctor shortage at current levels. Dropping the salary will only create further shortage which is typical of a universal healthcare country. Reply...
Bone.
I figured it was a nice benefit of the job.....one of many other nice bennies.
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Putting aside the stories of recent years, in the relative time of peace we had before Iraq/Afghanistan, how good was the VA? I guess I'm directing this at the persons who served and have first hand experience with the VA. Reply...
Does anyone know how our congressmen pay for their healthcare? Reply...
Thanks GL.
I would think that this (the high cost of being a doctor) would be the first hurdle that needs to be cleared for such a system to work in the USA.....because most all sides of the argument seem to agree that the income for doctors will fall under a government system. [if I am overstating this, someone please correct me].
And I think we can all see a looming doctor shortage if the cost of being a doctor rises while incomes fall.
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But I'm not trying to argue against universal healthcare...yet. I would be much more interested in seeing if we (the persons conversing here) could make it feasible. And after which time, judge to see if it is a good idea or not. Reply...
26% thought process? That would be scarry because that would put you something like 2% based on this conversation.
I suggest you actually do some research with an open mind. Go ask questions of someone you trust who would actually have knowledge of how the medical field works not this perceived notion you have. Actually think about what they say and do some basic math and you will see these theories you have don't add up. I'm not going to argue with you anymore as yesterday I probably went a little overboard but I was just attempting to get you to see the errors in logic you were making with what I think are simple math and economic theory but maybe not. Have a good day.
WW: In the US currently, the VA system would be the closest thing I could compare too and in that system you cannot sue your doctor. In Canada, you can sue your doctor but with limitations and somewhat different rules than in the US. Reply...
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