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I found myself unaccountably angry at statements from the auto manufacturers the other day. The mouth of Sauron from Chrysler tells us that to save money and jobs (and get a handout from Uncle Sam),...
View ArticleAll the Michaels are dead…
How did we allow the discussion to move away from health to how we should save the health insurance industry? How did that conversation move from a public healthy option to saving the profits of some...
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I’ve been quiet again. Probably feeling a deep recession myself, much more moral than fiscal but none the less, staying away from vocalizing what should be said. I awoke to a story this morning about...
View ArticleAt the end of all things.
Sad faces. Sad days. We see the poorest of the poor at my health center. Its a magnet for those who have nowhere else. We will see them. We do see them. We patch them up. We send them back into the...
View ArticlePlunder me again
As I read Paul Krugman’s – “Looters in Loafers”.i felt a bit prescient having blogged Bonuses for Bettors before the current revelations. Perhaps that should be re-evaluations. Slippery as eels these...
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A View From Xela. Implementing FreeMED in Guatemala.
Jeff and I undertook implementation of FreeMED an Open Source Electronic Medical Record and practice management system for the Pop-Wuj Clinic, a primary care, non-profit, free and open clinic in...
View Articleit couldn’t hurt .. or could it
I’ve been watching with interest the current Republican party dance around repeal of the Healthcare insurance legislation just passed. Its a sad bit of badly made political salad with very little for...
View ArticleREAL Health care – in the trenches.
I read Paul Romer’s The effect of Health Care Reform on others, a play on the vagaries of our dysfunctional healthcare system and putative illnesses of Mother Goose characters. I admit it (a guilty...
View ArticlePish tosh
Ahh my faith in the society of robber barons is renewed! On the news: A fine of 156 million is levied for stealing. No jail. No restrictions just the fine at 1% of last years net. Wow! The cost of...
View ArticleScammed again!
Recently I sought to upgrade from my DSL service which we’ve had since 1998 or thereabouts, finding that the current (supposedly) 6/728 was really 3/284 on a recent billing. Its not easy upgrading....
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