Nationalize the whole fucking thing. Buy it all out, including pharma. Put pharma research in the hands of the research universities, similar to how the DOE administers the national labs. The universities hold the patents. Drugs in the US are sold at cost to the new cabinet level agency to be created for this purpose. Profits from drugs sold to other nations are used by the universities to provide free medical education to anyone wanting to go into the field. Revamp the internship programs to include government-run free clinics in all specialties.
We need to quit producing medical school graduates whit six figure student loan debts and no sense of service. All profit motives must be removed. It's disgusting to treat life and death as a commodity.
If the insurance execs try to raise a fuss, lock them up for a few million cases of negligent homicide.
You want to know what the real problem is? For-profit health care serves two masters: the patent and the stockholders. Their interests are mutely exclusive. They have the obligation to provide high quality care for the patent and also the obligation to maximize profits for the stockholders. If they fail to do either they can be sued. That's not just broken, it's patently absurd.
If you ask me, profiting off human suffering is immoral and un-American.
That's not how it works. They can't turn you away if you're at death's door, but if you've got something that going to kill you in a year, they tell you to come back in 364 days at which point in time they give you some morphine and a body bag.
They sure as hell are not required to provide aftercare.
Hospital bills are the leading cause of bankruptcy filing in the US.
The way I look at it, if "life, liberty, and the the pursuit of happiness" are inalienable human rights as has often been stated in the foundational documents of this country, then surely health care is also an inalienable human right. I strongly support a constitutional amendment making it illegal for anyone to charge for or pay for health care, including pharmaceuticals. For a lot of people, maybe even most, the 10% income tax hike that goes along with it will be less than they are paying now.
And no, it shouldn't be left to the churches. That leads to "you can have your medicine once you accept Jesus." Fuck that. I'd rather die in a gutter.
I want the panel at the top. It makes much more sense to have the application menu bars and the panel all at the top so I don't have to move the mouse all over the screen.
This is the most likely explanation. Small municipalities were hand counted and large ones use the optical scan. It's largely an urban and suburban vs rural breakdown.
I'm thinking it might be legal. If it's a foreign registered ship docked in a US port, would the servers be subject to US law to the same degree as if they were on land? What about work visas for employees?
This would make a lot of sense for developing markets that don't have much infrastructure yet. For the US, it's a bit of a head scratcher for sure.
It does the same thing as word. It just does it very differently.
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Really? I bought an antique thinkpad and slapped Slackware on it just to use for writing. If you're trying to get work done, not being able to play games is a plus.
There would have to be a major improvement in math education for concordant to be accepted here. At least with pluralities, people think they understand it. Most just skip the part about the popular vote being ignored and the whole mess decided by the electoral college.
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I've been playing with Keppler, a Lua web stack. It's surprisingly robust for how easy it is to get started with.
http://www.keplerproject.org/wiki/US/HomePage
and that's a hanging crime, not that anybody cares.
Here's what you do:
Nationalize the whole fucking thing. Buy it all out, including pharma. Put pharma research in the hands of the research universities, similar to how the DOE administers the national labs. The universities hold the patents. Drugs in the US are sold at cost to the new cabinet level agency to be created for this purpose. Profits from drugs sold to other nations are used by the universities to provide free medical education to anyone wanting to go into the field. Revamp the internship programs to include government-run free clinics in all specialties.
We need to quit producing medical school graduates whit six figure student loan debts and no sense of service. All profit motives must be removed. It's disgusting to treat life and death as a commodity.
If the insurance execs try to raise a fuss, lock them up for a few million cases of negligent homicide.
Here's how you get them to go away:
Put the executives in jail for a few million cases of manslaughter.
Problem solved.
You want to know what the real problem is? For-profit health care serves two masters: the patent and the stockholders. Their interests are mutely exclusive. They have the obligation to provide high quality care for the patent and also the obligation to maximize profits for the stockholders. If they fail to do either they can be sued. That's not just broken, it's patently absurd.
If you ask me, profiting off human suffering is immoral and un-American.
It just took me nearly a month to get a root canal after breaking a tooth.
I hate to break it to you, but we have to wait too, often longer than in countries with single payer systems.
That's not how it works. They can't turn you away if you're at death's door, but if you've got something that going to kill you in a year, they tell you to come back in 364 days at which point in time they give you some morphine and a body bag.
They sure as hell are not required to provide aftercare.
Hospital bills are the leading cause of bankruptcy filing in the US.
The way I look at it, if "life, liberty, and the the pursuit of happiness" are inalienable human rights as has often been stated in the foundational documents of this country, then surely health care is also an inalienable human right. I strongly support a constitutional amendment making it illegal for anyone to charge for or pay for health care, including pharmaceuticals. For a lot of people, maybe even most, the 10% income tax hike that goes along with it will be less than they are paying now.
And no, it shouldn't be left to the churches. That leads to "you can have your medicine once you accept Jesus." Fuck that. I'd rather die in a gutter.
Not to mention the mono cancer.
I use a desktop wiki as my browser homepage. I use moinmoin because I'm a python cultist but there are several others that should work well.
Didiwiki weighs in at 40k and, iirc, has a built-in web server.
It's in the debian and ubuntu repos.
If you use KDE check out Basket
http://basket.kde.org/
Tried Telico or Treeline?
http://periapsis.org/tellico/
http://treeline.bellz.org/
click on the RP link. It's not what you think.
I'll take the corrupt oligarchy without all the Jesus in it.
I want the panel at the top. It makes much more sense to have the application menu bars and the panel all at the top so I don't have to move the mouse all over the screen.
They use scotchguard
Wake me up when 4.1 is out. I'm going back to bed.
This is the most likely explanation. Small municipalities were hand counted and large ones use the optical scan. It's largely an urban and suburban vs rural breakdown.
depends on the size of your thumbs
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What? Like exports? How quaint.
So it's like hosting in sealand only it moves . . .
I like it.
I'm thinking it might be legal. If it's a foreign registered ship docked in a US port, would the servers be subject to US law to the same degree as if they were on land? What about work visas for employees?
This would make a lot of sense for developing markets that don't have much infrastructure yet. For the US, it's a bit of a head scratcher for sure.
It does the same thing as word. It just does it very differently.
Really? I bought an antique thinkpad and slapped Slackware on it just to use for writing. If you're trying to get work done, not being able to play games is a plus.
It's the "killer ap" that got me to convert to linux full time.
http://www.lyx.org/
There would have to be a major improvement in math education for concordant to be accepted here. At least with pluralities, people think they understand it. Most just skip the part about the popular vote being ignored and the whole mess decided by the electoral college.