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  #21  
Old October 17th 05, 05:31 PM
Paul Bielec
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RobGN wrote:
Jennifer,

I sympathize with you on your frustration on your job; my sister-in-law
is a nurse in Ottawa and I hear her complain about the shortages
constantly.

However, I must mention that our healthcare system, with all its
faults, has one advantage we cannot take for granted: Should anyone of
us have a serious accident which would cause us to be hospitalized, our
healthcare system pays for our stay, our Doctors, our Therapists, our
Nurses, our medications while in hospital. I cannot imagine the cost I
would have had to incure when I was involved in a highway accident last
winter and was in the hospital for 3 weeks.

Jennifer, yours is a wonderful job.

RobGN


I live in Quebec.

I needed a shoulder surgery. The waiting list for this type of surgery
is months, if not a year or two. One call my mother made to a doctor we
know and I had it done within a month. With the amount of taxes I pay
because of my high income, I'm in a my right to expect this level of
services without having contacts.
Somebody i know is a nurse. Because there is a shortage, he decided to
work only part time, knowing that he will be asked to do overtime every
week. This way, because of the overtime bonuses, he makes more money
than working full time from the beginning. This is only possible because
of the bad administration and over the top unionization of the
healthcare systems.
A doctor I know, a specialist with 20 years of practice, just recenlty
told me that for every 1000000$ government invests into the system,
we're lucky if 50000$ end up being spent on the services to the population.

And we do have the highest taxes in North America. 50% income tax, 15%
sales tax, gas taxes etc.
  #22  
Old October 17th 05, 06:50 PM
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On 10/17/05 7:02 AM, in article , "Scott
Schuckert" wrote:

In article .com,
RobGN wrote:

However, I must mention that our healthcare system, with all its
faults, has one advantage we cannot take for granted: Should anyone of
us have a serious accident which would cause us to be hospitalized, our
healthcare system pays for our stay, our Doctors, our Therapists, our
Nurses, our medications while in hospital. I cannot imagine the cost I
would have had to incure when I was involved in a highway accident last
winter and was in the hospital for 3 weeks.


A few years ago, a friend of mine was hit by a bus while crossing the
street in Denmark. It was probably even his fault; no one asked or
cared. They scooped him up, took him to the hospital, and fixed him.


It's clear you've never been to one of those hospitals located in the
socialist paradises of Europe. We give better care to cocker spaniels in
Veterinary clinics here.....

I had occasion to go to a hospital in England a couple of years back for a
minor injury - the place was dirty, poorly staffed and you had to wait far
longer than you do in America..! The care given was just plain
inadequate...!

The level of care is abysmal and the quality of care is worse - a dear
friend of mine died of cancer in Denmark just about two years ago. The
hospital was a disgrace, filthy and you could smell it two blocks away. Her
husband, a clergyman, pays 70% in taxes, not 50%. I believe if she had been
treated in America, she would be alive and well today....!

I have a Canadian friend whose mother was denied a hip replacement - too
old, they said. She was eighty at the time. He brought her down here and had
it done under his private health insurance. She's 91 now, still walking
around without pain....health care in Canada is great unless you get
sick....!

As he tells it, there was almost no paperwork - they only asked his
name and address so they could let his family know where he was. If
government is going to run healthcare, THAT'S how it should work. Of
course, they have a 50% income tax to pay for it - but I'm told it's
the ONLY tax, so it's probably equivalent to the total tax load we have
in the US.


Their tax load is much higher.....

IMHO, our biggest problem with our current system in the states is the
insurance industry. Aside from the incredible cost of the paperwork to
track it all, there's no reason to find ways to make it affordable -
the consumer is never really faced with the cost. My fathers
(unsucessful) cancer treatment was over half a million dollars! If we
routinely charge more for services than ANYONE could pay, it can only
come crashing down on us eventually.


The problem with our system is government intervention and bureaucrats.
Private insurance, competing for dollars, would and will provide better care
at lower prices. That's how competition works...

That's why our system, in spite of government interference, is still the
finest in the world....bar none!

PC


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Old October 17th 05, 11:50 PM
Tony Polson
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Paul Bielec wrote:

And we do have the highest taxes in North America. 50% income tax, 15%
sales tax, gas taxes etc.



It could be worse ... you could live in Europe.

;-)
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Old October 18th 05, 12:34 AM
William Graham
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"Paul Bielec" wrote in message
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In Quebec, we do have the public healthcare system. And we do pay the
highest taxes in North America. If the service was good, it wouldn't be a
problem. But the service is crap. People are actually dying while on
waiting list for a surgery.


That's because they already have your money in their pockets, so there is no
incentive to do the work. We have the same problem with the HMO's here in
the states. For 40 years I worked and paid into my health insurance plan. I
was never sick. I was young and healthy as are most young people. Now, I am
retired, and getting old and sick. But after 40 years of paying into their
plans, they already have all of my money they are going to get, and there is
no incentive for them to take care of me. So the service I get is lousy. The
insurance companies refuse to pay the providers unless they are billed
correctly, and I have to do most of the paperwork in order to make that
happen. The drug companies refuse to pay for certain
medications.....Especially the more expensive ones. They force me to go to
the doctors of their choice, which are new doctors that are just getting
started, and willing to work for less money. I am "forced" to be in Medicare
(a government sponsored plan) even though my own personal insurance should
(and would) pay for everything, and the providers refuse to bill the private
plan, but are only willing to bill the Medicare government people. The list
goes on and on. I fear the day when I am too old to protest, and to do the
billing correctly.....At that point the money will all have to come out of
my own pocket, because I will be too old to know that I am getting screwed.
The rest homes here are the same way. You should see the food they serve the
old folks. You wouldn't feed food like that to your pet dog. If you are
diabetic, or have some other diet sensitive disease, you are a goner. They
serve nothing but starch.....


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Old October 18th 05, 02:14 PM
Scott Schuckert
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In article , William
Graham wrote:

...The insurance companies refuse to pay the providers unless they are billed
correctly, and I have to do most of the paperwork in order to make that
happen...


I have it on good authority (I maintain some of their computers for
them, and a girlfriend works in billing) that at least one very large
medical insurance company randomly refuses properly submitted claims.

Aside from the number that are refused for improper paperwork, roughly
20% are kicked out just to see if they can get away without paying. Of
these, about half are not re-submitted. The extra claims selected are
not really random; my friends JOB is to select those whose refusal is
least likely to be challenged.

All in the name of optimizing investor returns, of course.
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Old October 18th 05, 05:17 PM
Ray Fischer
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Paul Bielec wrote:
In Quebec, we do have the public healthcare system. And we do pay the
highest taxes in North America.


So many people, all whining that they pay the highest taxes.

--
Ray Fischer


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Old October 18th 05, 05:19 PM
Ray Fischer
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Paul Bielec wrote:
RobGN wrote:
Jennifer,

I sympathize with you on your frustration on your job; my sister-in-law
is a nurse in Ottawa and I hear her complain about the shortages
constantly.

However, I must mention that our healthcare system, with all its
faults, has one advantage we cannot take for granted: Should anyone of
us have a serious accident which would cause us to be hospitalized, our
healthcare system pays for our stay, our Doctors, our Therapists, our
Nurses, our medications while in hospital. I cannot imagine the cost I
would have had to incure when I was involved in a highway accident last
winter and was in the hospital for 3 weeks.

Jennifer, yours is a wonderful job.


I live in Quebec.

I needed a shoulder surgery. The waiting list for this type of surgery
is months, if not a year or two. One call my mother made to a doctor we
know and I had it done within a month. With the amount of taxes I pay
because of my high income, I'm in a my right to expect this level of
services without having contacts.


Drive across the border with $30,000 in your checking account.

You can get all the service you want.

What? You don't want to pay $30,000? Then wait.

--
Ray Fischer


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Old October 18th 05, 05:34 PM
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"Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote in message
t...
In rec.photo.equipment.35mm Scott Schuckert wrote:

All in the name of optimizing investor returns, of course.


And for this reason, MN has a law requiring Health Insurance companies
to be non-profit. The Attorney General in this state LOVES to dig
through the accounting of these companies.


Heh. I'm not exactly sure what "non-profit" means, other than not showing
anything on the bottom line I suppose. So there are no shareholders to pay
dividends to, but they can spend all the money they like on high salaries
for executives and a lot of other lavish perks, and generally do. A friend
of my dad's once told him that the best and surest way to get rich was to
have a good position in a non-profit company.

There still ain't no free lunch. And people still build companies to make
money for themselves.

Neil


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Old October 18th 05, 05:44 PM
William Graham
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"Scott Schuckert" wrote in message
...
In article , William
Graham wrote:

...The insurance companies refuse to pay the providers unless they are
billed
correctly, and I have to do most of the paperwork in order to make that
happen...


I have it on good authority (I maintain some of their computers for
them, and a girlfriend works in billing) that at least one very large
medical insurance company randomly refuses properly submitted claims.

Aside from the number that are refused for improper paperwork, roughly
20% are kicked out just to see if they can get away without paying. Of
these, about half are not re-submitted. The extra claims selected are
not really random; my friends JOB is to select those whose refusal is
least likely to be challenged.

All in the name of optimizing investor returns, of course.


Yes. And the older you get, the more difficult it is to challenge these
refusals. At some point, the geezers money is just taken from him/her
without protest. Surely your friend knows that the, "least likely to be
challenged" is going to be in the oldest group of subscribers.


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Old October 18th 05, 06:35 PM
Paul Bielec
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Tony Polson wrote:

Paul Bielec wrote:


And we do have the highest taxes in North America. 50% income tax, 15%
sales tax, gas taxes etc.




It could be worse ... you could live in Europe.

;-)

I actually did, for nearly 16 years and still have two passports...
 




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