Careerbuilder: Spider
Makeajacksandwich - This a great site!!!
E*Trade: Baby
Not as many good commercials here. They only had 52 national commericials - 30 were in the first half, and they only had 5 or 6 in the 4th quarter.
I'm not a HUGE football fan - the first quarter and the last 3 minutes of the 4th quarter were all I needed to see. :}
Who did you want to win and why?
Which is your favorite for the first half?
BudLight: Breathing Fire
Doritos: Mouse Trap
Pepsi: Justin Timberlake - 'cause they hit him with so many thing!
According to estimates by the Pew Hispanic Center, 59% of the undocumented immigrants in the U.S. are uninsured, compared with 25% of documented immigrants and 14% of U.S. citizens. Undocumented immigrants account for about 15% of the nation's uninsured population, as well as for about 30% of the increase since 1980, USA Today reports. According to USA Today, proposals by leading Democratic presidential candidates likely would "mean little change in undocumented immigrants' health care status" because the proposals would not provide coverage for them (Wolf, USA Today, 1/22)..
WOW...
The percentage of people without health insurance by age group:
With these kind of numbers what does it mean?
As you get older you need insurance?
I'm still for fixing a system that does not fit everyone, but I don't want to go down the path of the "NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND" education model. No child left behind only helps the slowest kids in the class. The brightest are left wondering when the next lesson will start but are left waiting for the least common demoinator to catch up. I've had many conversations with many school district personnel about this and most agree - the bright kids are suffering so the others can catch up. I don't want healthcare that will punish (lower quality service, less choice in coverage options) the ones with coverage in order to get everyone covered. There has to be a solution to get the lagging population within the covered circle.
I enjoy going to my chiropractor and paying him out of pocket because my insurace won't cover his services. Really I do, no sarcasm. It's my choice and I like him - he treats me and I feel better that before the treatment. I know a MD would take an X-ray or give me Pain Pills for the soreness I feel after a good run. I little manipulation and muscle stimulation and I am good to go. I have gotten recipes from him for soup, stretching exercises, saturday walk-ins, etc. If you live in Phoenix and are looking for an honest Chiropractor click here.
Found out I could send links from websites to my blog page. Kind of helpfull but I found out I need to edit, otherwise it just sends the link with no content.
Anyway this is the website of the company I work for. It is specific to the bleeding disorder community. We don't just ship factor and supplies, we provide comprehensive services: medical, social, and education, to each patient we care for. I call it "LifeCare". Please check out the site if you have any questions. That's what it's there for.
Have you heard all the noise from the "Presidential Hopefuls" on healthcare? Who has the best plan? Who will cover more people? Who will make it affordable? Who is asking all these questions? Are you?
These are not my questions. I have only one question. Maybe two.
I understand that not having health insurance is worse than not have choice. But why should we lower that standard of care by removing choice in order to accommodate everyone.
From information I have been gathering about Universal Healthcare I hear a lot about a "one
payer" system. If you have never heard of this please look it up. In a nutshell, everyone pays into this system and the system pays the healthcare providers. This also assume there is one healthcare agency and one pot that all the money goes into and one place for the healthcare industry to request money for services performed. Canada, Norway, and Sweden have this style of healthcare.
Healthcare companies exist to make a profit. Why else are they there? I doubt it is for the feelgood they get at the end of the day. For example: If the service of a company is below the standard of service we go elsewhere. If your favorite restaurant has "new management" and the service goes down below your standards we eat elsewhere. If enough people leave the restaurant they have a few choices to make; lower prices, increase service, or go out of business. If they can't lover prices and refuse to increase service they will not make money and will go out of business. Business exist to make money. If they can't pay the bills to keep the business open, who will? Our society is supply and demand.
Most of us work for profit. I love my job but if they didn't pay me I'd have to look elsewhere. I volunteer to give back. I volunteer a lot, for many of different reasons, none of them involve making money.
What are the monetary downsides of Universal Healthcare? How much am I going to have to pay to have this coverage. Do I have to wait in even longer lines to see my doctor, nurse, social worker. Will I be seen in a reasonable time frame? I'd rather not have to wait in an ER for 6 to 8 hours if I don't have to. I have heard some people have to wait months for an appointment. THAT IS NOT SERVICE TO ME. We already have a shortage of Doctors, what will Universal Healthcare do to this problem? Doctors are leaving practice because they can't make enough money to pay their own bills.
Mal-practice insurance is a whole topic I won't go into here, but it's still a question I might dip into later.
I'm not sold on Universal Healthcare. I have other questions!!!!! I know the current system is flawed. I don't want to do something else that doesn't work just because what we currently have doesn't work either.
