Capitalism works… up until corruption enters. Socialism doesn’t work… and it breeds corruption.

Sounds like we must concentrate on eliminating corruption if we want to preserve our freedom (or what little of it we have left).

As others have already pointed out, businesses have the right to control the use of their facilities. This includes their computers and internet connections. They have valid business and security reasons for doing this. It sometimes results in blocking of access that seems odd, but that hardly makes the business evil. Filtering content is hardly an exact science. I can provide my own anecdotal evidence of this.

The Northern Virginia hospital where my wife worked for nearly a quarter century had (like all hospitals) internet filtering software as well as filters to block certain content from hospital e-mail accounts. My daughter, who was working for a health related non-profit at the time, sent an e-mail from her work e-mail to my wife’s hospital e-mail related to a medical issue using perfectly proper terms for various parts of the human anatomy. The e-mail was blocked. This e-mail was not the target of the filtering, but it was caught in the same net.

At around the same time I was working for a company that had an extremely rigid internet policy. They blocked most everything. My daughter sent me an e-mail with a link to the Alzheimer’s Association. The site was blocked by my employer. Seemed laughable to me, but it was their computer and their internet connection and they had the right to block anything they pleased. I suppose I could have followed the example of this post and started complaining that my employer was PRO-Alzheimer’s and wanted people to suffer with the disease. But that would be crazy, wouldn’t it?

Finally, I know a little bit about Novant Health. We have moved to North Carolina and my wife now works for them. My grandson was also born in one of their hospitals. They are a first class organization. When I read that Prince William had been purchased by Novant and told my wife her reaction was that it would be a great thing for Prince William. I suspect most of the employees will feel that way in time. It is natural for there to be anxiety over the changes that come with new ownership in any business. I strongly suspect that is what is behind this overheated silliness about being a bunch of anti-Christian Marxists.

As far as Blessed RN’s statement that “PWC and Manassas are different from where they’re from” goes, I suspect you would be quite comfortable here. There seems to be a much wider presumption here that we all share the same Christian beliefs than I ever saw in Northern Virginia (including Prince William County). That goes for the area in general and for the conversations I have overheard or been part of inside Novant facilities.

“If the additional customers generate higher-than-average claims, they make the costs go up. That’s why your car insurance wants to drop you after you have too many DUIs and accidents.”

It is also why your health insurance company wants to drop you when you get sick.

From the hospitals own publication
[some of your post deleted for brevity]

Caucasian American
Many Caucasian-Americans see themselves as the dominate group in America, even as demographics are rapidly changing. Most Caucasians of American decent do not identify themselves as Caucasian-Americans. They view themselves as “Americans” or “Christians” or “Texans” or “New Yorkers”

[Shouldn’t they mean “Americans of Caucasian decent”?]

The Caucasian label needs to be summarily dropped. It’s way too general, and totally meaningless (unless you’re actually from the area of Europe which bears that name).

From dictionary.com…

Cau⋅ca⋅sian
“of, pertaining to, or characteristic of one of the traditional racial divisions of humankind, marked by fair to dark skin, straight to tightly curled hair, and light to very dark eyes, and originally inhabiting Europe, parts of North Africa, western Asia, and India: no longer in technical use.”

I love the “no longer in technical use” part. They still use the label though.

I’m not Caucasian, nor am I white. I prefer pale-skin (which is that actual description of my skin), but that will give me troubles using it.

/end of my tirade.

Cost is based on supply and demand. If the demand (larger population) goes up and the supply (doctors, in this case) stays the same then the cost rises (doctors see an opportunity, and raise their rates).

Now the cost could decrease, but only if the supply went up more than the demand (perhaps due to investors seeing an opportunity, or the increased demand leading to new, deflationary technologies, etc.).

Defining Diversity: A Glossary of Diversity Related Terms:

Prejudice:Implies a preconceived idea, judgment, or opinion, usually an unfavorable one marked by hatred, and is directed toward a racial religious, cultural, or ethnic group.
Judgments about others that reinforce superiority/inferiority belief systems:
Exaggerate value/worth of a particular group while diminishing worth for other group(s).
http://www.novanthealth.org/eap/daily_issues/diversity.jsp

Then they offer this:

This information is offered as a general guide to improve understanding and quality of care.

Caucasian American
Many Caucasian-Americans see themselves as the dominate group in America, even as demographics are rapidly changing. Most Caucasians of American decent do not identify themselves as Caucasian-Americans. They view themselves as “Americans” or “Christians” or “Texans” or “New Yorkers”

Now I have no idea how having their employees accept and understand this summation is going to enable them to put me on the road to a rapid recovery. Perhaps knowing this will enable them to help heal the “inner me”.

The wonders of modern medicine never cease to amaze me.

Now that would be interesting to know.

Only if the amount paid out in claims to those additional customers is the same as or lower than the average amount paid out to the existing customers.

If the additional customers generate higher-than-average claims, they make the costs go up.

That’s why your car insurance wants to drop you after you have too many DUIs and accidents.

Quack, quack, Duck

We need HEALTH CARE WORKERS - period - Christian or not!

Go look at the topic again. We are discussing Christian health care workers.

Steer yourself away from emotion based reasoning.

If it results in increased insurance premiums, it might be a matter of concern to the vast majority of employees.

We need HEALTH CARE WORKERS - period - Christian or not!

http://www.wnd.com/Contact%20WND

With health care trending toward cost cutting and euthanasia, we need all the Christian health care employees we can get.

If the folks do their jobs while they are on the clock, they won’t have any problems. If they spend their work time engaged on non-work related issues (i.e., that which is not in their job description) they should be quickly terminated. If they have moral issues about policy decisions made by their employer, they should quit. Such is the free market in a right to work state… and Conservative values.