When I worked in crisis communications at the Indiana State Department of Health, I was blocked from a number of sites that I actually needed for my job, and had to get special permission to be able to see. Once, when the State Health Commissioner ha
- Mike Seidle
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- Mike Seidle
LinkedIn strengthens and extends your existing network of trusted contacts. LinkedIn is a networking tool that helps you discover inside connections to recommended job candidates, industry experts and business partners.
- Mike Seidle
I ask because in 2004/5 I had no debt until my family suffered 3 hospitalizations. That's when I left being an independent contractor to join a traditional company with benefits. If not the inability for the self-employed to obtain health benefits I'd likely still be independent.
- Robert J Taylor
I thought I could easily find some hard facts about the cost of pharmaceuticals in the US vs the cost in other countries. I was wrong. Looks like I will have to go beyond simple Google searches. My suspicion is that US patients fund a disproportionate amount of the R&D for drug development that benefits the entire world. That would be great if we could afford it, but it looks like we can not.
- Chip Ramsey
robot, i don't think as a society we are going to sit by and let people die. we don't do it today. emergency rooms are open to anyone. it just is a horrible system that creates higher cost last ditch effort care. and, the personal crisis you discuss is a good example of how resource distortions arise due to the fear of healthcare costs. there has to be a better way.
- lew
the US healthcare system is in sad shape yet so many people don't even realize it because they haven't been personally affected by it. hopefully we can turn it around before it gets too much worse. i cringe every time i hear someone say "blah blah blah Socialized Medicine, never!"
- Phil Maxwell
The growth of interest payments is not in our national interest.
- Mike Seidle
mike, like lew said in the post - the interest is a reflection of the growing costs - cut the costs down and the interest goes down too
- Chris Heath
Look at healthcare in places where it has been socialized. Canada, UK, etc. Is their level of care acceptable? Is it acceptable to lose all ability to choose which treatments you are going to receive? If you hand healthcare over to the government, none of us (except the "elites" and those who work for the government) will receive an acceptable level of care.
- Stephen M. Otto
healthcare is not a right. Its a choice. If you get health insurance from your employer thats money that they are not paying you. Just like the 7 to 8% they pay to Social Insecurity and Medicare is more money that employers are shelling out that you don't see. Many people who live in New York find that paying over $1,000 a month for family coverage simply is not doable. The programs for lower income people cap out way too low.
- Matt Ellsworth
Facts on the religion of the founding fathers of the United States. I found this when someone claimed that the founding fathers were mostly "some kind of atheist". Really good read.
- Mike Seidle
"You obviously have never used a G-1 for more than two minutes. In many ways (replaceable battery, keyboard, etc...) the G-1 has a lot more to offer hardware and feature wise than an iPhone. About the only advantage iPhone really has is iPhone is more built in memory. The app situation on Android has improved a great deal in the past few months. For developers, Android is more open, you can run persistent processes, and it's pretty easy to code for. Oh, and btw, Samsung and Motorola are coming out with Android phones soon."
- Mike Seidle
"There are four real reasons to use KDE 4: 1. Improved usability. Konsole has improved so much it's reason enough for the upgrade. Dolphin is nice (Konqueror is still there if you like it). 2. Semantic Desktop - adds tagging, full text search and is lightweight and fast. 3. kio slaves. you can open files on just about any protocol, in any kde application. If you've never used KDE, look up kio_slaves in the help files. It's KDE's secret sauce. (well, that and DBus and DCOP). 4. Extremely customizable. You can pretty much change everything about everything."
- Mike Seidle