So you don't Like Walmart?

I only hate Walmart because I live in a town with 26000 ppl and WalMart is the only place in town to shop besides Albertsons grocery store. Kmart shutdown years ago.

 

I don't like Walmart, it's too dang crowded.....always!!!!!!!!!!

Fuck Bush!

 

Yep....that is called socialism...

ZDog

 

I spent a holiday season working at Sams about 10 years ago, back then they were a decent company with a great leader. Sam Walton would roll over in his grave if he saw what his kids are doing to that company.

 

yeh our kmart shut down as well. we still have the major grocery stores around but there are more and more walmarts popping up... they just put in a "super" walmart down the street from me. its ridiculous.

 

Not to start a war or argument, but I am a firm believer in national health care.

PLEASE, I am not trying to piss anyone off, but my mom is fighting cancer, has been for the last 5 years, and probably wont make it threw the summer. This started BECAUSE of HMO's/insurance companies. My mom is 66. When she was 59 (in 2003) she went to her doctor because of bathroom problems. Her doctor wanted to do a colonoscopy. The insurance company said "NO" that she was too young to have one done. My mom could not spend the 800+ to pay of it out of pocket, besides that is what she already pays for health insurance for! So a year goes by and is not the fall of 2004. She gets a different doctor because she now is convinced it is hemeroids and wants them removed. This doctor said he wanted to do the colonoscopy first; that he was not convinced it was hemeroids, but something else. He too was told by the same insurance company that they will not pay. This doctor fought them!!! My mom got the exam...3 tumors, one the size of a small apple. However, the cancer had already jumped the colon wall and moved into her limph system. Over the last 5+ years and 5 rounds of chemo, it has moved to her liver and lungs.

This would have been prevented if the insurance company would have payed the money for the exam the first time; and she would not be dieing!

Since this time I have recently started to work at the VA hospital here in Cleveland. Actually, I am volentiering since I am out of work I mid-as-well do something usefull with my time. I am in the accounting dept. ... MCCR. We do insurance verification and billing to insurance companies. Yes the VA bills insurance companies just like any other hospital.

Working there I have learned several things that I never knew befor. For starters, one insurance companies police is that ALL of their representatives are REQUIRED to deny 20 (twenty) claims every day, regardless if the are valid or not! Hoping that the paitent will get scared about an outstanding bill and just pay it. Obviously that will only work on smaller claims.

Another thing I have learned is that VETS get increadible great health care! Insurance companies enter deals with pharmacutical companies for dicounts on drugs, as well as pharmacies like mail order ones. Insurance companies threaten us DAILY that the will not pay for a patients RX because it is not the genaric, and the WE NEED TO TELL THE DOCTOR TO CHANGE THE PERSCRIPTION!

Our (the VA's) responce is "we are the VA. You do not tell us what to do! If you do not want to pay, that is fine, but we will not change or ask our doctors to change their diagnosis or perscriptions for you or anyone, to suit your cost preferences."

Insurance companies dont want to pay for certain RX's because of the cost, and even when explained to them that the doctor perscribed the medican that they did because of other medication conflicts, they don't care and still refuse to pay!

Our Doctors, do what is right and BEST for the paitent, and don't care what the insurance companies say or try do dictate.

Insurance companies do not have anyones best interests at heart except their own. Remeber insurance companies are in busness for one reason only, and that is to make money.

In the public world (non VA) doctors are under sever preasure from insurance companies to not do certain exams or prescribe certain RX's because of cost. My mom is a perfect example of that.

If we had a National health care system, we would have doctors like the VA has...ones that did right by the patient instead of being bullied around by insurance companies.

It may not be a perfect system, but it will be better then insurance companies ruling our doctors. And befor anyone says that doctors and nurses wont make as much money as in the private sector...look on www.usajobs.com Look and see what they pay! I know 3 different nurses and the pay is equal if not better then, the private sector!

Again, I'm not trying to start an argument, and I know it very hard for anyone to understand things as I see it because they have not learned all that I know or experienced everything that I have so far. All I ask is have an open mind to what I have said, and look at things the why they are...meaning, ask your doctor next time you see him how things work, like "why are you prescribing me the generic?" He'll say either because the insurance co. wont pay other wise, OR he'll say to say you money. How is he saving you money?...you pay "X" amount for a script regardless of cost, you don't pay a percent. You might have a deductible, but once you met it, you met it, now they have to pay.

I'm asking you to think and be suspisious! Question everything. And PLEASE if you don't like what your doctor says, get another oppion and PUSH for what you know is right!!! It's your life your fighting for. PLEASE don't be one of those people that LITTERALLY takes better care of their car/truck then you do of your self!!!

 

Amen to that...

 

How is this not locked??

On that note...

IBTL!

And for good measure to make sure it's locked... Raptor!

 

Theres no reason for it to be locked...and wat up with RAPTOR haha

 

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everyone that works there voted for obama

 

Oh You said it too...uh ohhh x2!

 

oh god haha wat does it mean?

 

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/93156-ford-raptor.html

 

Oh and I don't shop at Wal Mart either. On Saturday and Sunday People used to come from all the surrounding counties to shop at the Super Wal Mart in my hometown. It wasn't till I got the F out of that town that I realized how bad of an effect Wal Mart had on the surrounding communities. Bullshit service on crap merchandise just so you can save a few bucks. And the small mom and pops were out of business because of it. I'd rather be able to talk to someone who knows WTF they are talking about and gives a shit about their business.

 

I saw a raptor at walmart today.

 

shhhh dont speak of RAPTORS because any talk of RAPTORS will get this thread shut tighter than a virgin's legs. so ex nay the RAPTOR. ok .

PS: I just love jurassic park...especially the t-rex part

betcha thought I was gonna say RAPTOR huh?

Smart ass mode off

 

wow raptors are nice