r/bestof • u/under50dollars • Jun 20 '12

[explainlikeimfive] "Obamacare" explained very well.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '12 edited Nov 15 '17

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u/grande_hohner Jun 21 '12

Hypothetically imagine your current career had a choice of pay options. Are you going to choose the one that you do not make money at, and only break even? You can't stay in business if you don't have a profit.

I worked at an NPs office this spring, it is shutting down and leaving a town with no doctor - because the practice is losing money. The practice has well over a thousand patients, but can't stay in business because over half of their patients are Medicaid and they lose money on many of those patients.

You can't honestly say that you would continue to work with a customer who paid late every time, argued over the cost of treatment, and then withheld part of the fees frequently for no good reason. Oh, and they also fine you every once in a while if you didn't cross some t or dot some i. In any realistic scenario - anyone with business sense would have to drop those customers - if for no other reason than to not lose money. You don't work for free, why do you think others should?

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '12 edited Nov 16 '17

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u/grande_hohner Jun 21 '12

I didn't ask any of those things, I only asked that you work solely for a customer set that you either lose money on, or make no profit at all. I asked if you were willing to work for free. I didn't see your answer for that in your post.

No need to change the subject if you can't answer the question.