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POPSThe Root of Much of What Ails Our Health-Care System ~ “Third-Party-Payer Problem”
to create impenetrable bureaucratic barriers between you and their money. There’s a reason why claims forms are so complicated.... There is much to lament about that system, and real reform is needed. A meaningful body of reforms would do three things: 1) establish a real market for health-care services and health insurance, one that is fiercely competitive and driven by consumers who are not beholden to their employers, the government, or any concern other than their own needs; 2) take intelligent steps to reduce the expense of health care and health insurance, and the bureaucracy attached to them; 3) offer intelligently designed support for the poor, the sick, and other vulnerable participants in the market. Here are ten things that would go a long way toward getting that done: 1) Insurance Choice. 2) Real Competition: A National Market for Health Insurance. 3) Price Transparency. 4) High Ceilings for HSAs (and No Taxes). 5) Insurance on Your Insuran
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POPSMagic Numbers in Politics: Part II by Thomas Sowell Bluntly, it means more severe injuries and death. Many of the same people who protest against "trading blood for oil" when it comes to military interventions in the Middle East seem not to see that higher miles per gallon can also mean trading blood for oil. The magic number du jour is the number of Americans without health insurance. Apparently getting more people insured is another "good thing"-- which is to say, it is something whose costs are not to be weighed against the benefits, or whose costs are to be finessed aside with optimistic projections or a claim that these costs can be covered by eliminating "waste, fraud and abuse." In real life, people weigh one thing against another. But in politics one declares one thing to be imperative, so the issue then becomes how we do it. In real life, all sorts of desirable things are not done, either because of other desirable things that would have to be sacrificed to do it or because of the dangers incurred .
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POPSBruce Lee’s Top 7 Fundamentals for Getting Your Life in Shape If you have, then you may be interested to know that Lee was a very famous martial artist and actor who sparked the first big interest of Chinese martial arts in the West in the 60’s and 70’s. But besides being an awesome fighter and iconic figure Lee also had some very useful things to say about life.
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POPSDepressed Democrats: Don’t Understand Why Americans Condemn Socialism Poor liberals. Instead of looking for change in the right direction with tort reform and other non-Socialist idea’s they dug in their heels and said “Socialism or bust!” Well, we choose bust. Now, we do want health care fixed by other means. We want tort reform, we want small groups to be able to band together and form larger qualified groups, ….there is plenty of things that can be done to lower the cost of health care. But Socialism is not the answer.
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POPSGTD Toolbox: 100+ Resources for Getting Things Done folks, I have tried a simple and elegant tool which I like more than any other thicker tool that I have tried. MonkeyGTD - awesome features - built on TiddlyWiki - works from my USB (also known as an extension of my body) - and preserves the original elegance (terminology, philosophy, etc) of GTD. Frankly I love it. check it out... It's way better than many/most of the ones listed here. well - RTM does come close with it's gears based version - and I really love the way it parses dates intelligently - but that's more a task manager function than a GTD function. But if you ask me to pick , I will choose MonkeyGTD! (though, I need to admit, the learning curve is more for MonkeyGTD if you havenot used a tiddly before)
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POPSStriking New Project Management Tools This productivity and management principle combines knowledge of projects with the biology of the human brain, designing a strategy which doesn’t just account for business practices – it also includes the limitations of your cerebral cortex.
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POPSExcerllent Opinion Piece Please click the link - article too long for inclusion here, but makes really good points/comparisons that make you think.
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POPSDemocrats screwing around ... instead of getting the things done they were voted to do. Obstructionist Republican'ts are only a part of the problem.
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POPSCommercial Truck Insurance in Illinois As drivers shop for Trucking Insurance coverage it is important for them to realize that the market is very competitive and that they should not settle with the first policy that they find.
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POPSCheney Ran Secret Assassination Squad? This is the first statement of what the secret "-- xxx ??? -- " program we've been haring about all this week; USA SECRET ASSASSINATION SQUADS RUN BY THE FORMER VICE PRESIDENT! This has been mentioned, hinted at, before but buried by most mainstream news and lost in the never ending rush of more and more events and exposures. But hundreds of thousands of citizens have kept the pressure on and with the help of sympathetic politicians more and more evidence and events are getting exposed. Oh...btw, in the era where Fox News & CNN debates everything, assassinations are illegal. Torture, also, btw, is a war crime. (As well as the cover-up of the slaughter of thousands of Taliban prisoners, etc.) It's unfortunately true that such things have been done, throughout all of time and probably by most nations but a man making up his own little death lists is a classic evil to be feared...esp. when not even the leader of the country, and in secret.
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POPSGood luck selling that "refridgerator" In the past fifteen years or so, I've also noticed that a lot more errors are showing up in print - newspapers and magazines. I attribute this to reporters' use of direct terminals to write stories. In less technological times, the editor and, perhaps, a number of copyreaders (copyboys in the old days - think Jimmy Olsen) had a chance to catch the obvious slips. As a last bulwark against typos, or sometimes a last source of them, were the human typetters who ran the Linotype machines. I can sympathize with the author at the source; At one point in my life I taught college composition and wallowed daily in the dregs of bad writing. In recent years, I've become more prone to typos thanks to nerve damage from an injury, and am mortified when a mistyped item escapes my notice before I click on the 'done' button. Hence, Jorjor's Law: Intelligent people make typographical errors; stoopid peepul dont no hau too spel.
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POPSFacing Down Bullies (And Their Enablers) "And I didn’t give even a moment’s thought to the bullies, and what their lifetime prognosis might be. Parents of these children need to be encouraged to demand that schools take action, and pediatricians probably need to be ready to talk to the principal. And we need to follow up with the children to make sure the situation gets better, and to check in on their emotional health and get them help if they need it. How about helping the bullies, who are, after all, also pediatric patients? Some experts worry that schools simply suspend or expel the offenders without paying attention to helping them and their families learn to function in a different way."
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