You can't get out of the doctor's office without signing a HIPAA waiver so the doctor can share your health information with their partners.
I guess assuming that this partner would be the radiologist, neurologist... involved in my case was foolish. Plus, they obviously have to disclose to the insurance company to get paid. And the insurance company runs the database from which they sell your information. Great!
This statement scares me even more:
It's not just for insurers, either; employers who check applicants' credit scores will surely be interested in their health scores as well.
I don't really see how this is legal. I'm sure most companies would love to be able to cherry pick employees based on health risk. But, whatever happened to the risk sharing aspect of insurance?
If insurance companies will only insure people who don't need it, they have no reason to exist. Oh, excuse me, I totally forgot about those poor stock holders:->
It sounds like the people who will get hurt the most by this are once again the individuals buying their own health insurance and also small businesses.
Even if the offshore drilling is allowed it will be many years before we see any benefit from it
That was their excuse ten years ago. It would take ten years to see any benefit, so why bother?
Of course, if Bush administration had created a real energy policy eight years ago (rather than a custom crafted oil company profit assurance plan) oil prices might be lower today.
Yes, Vista looks great. I'm running it on two (new) machines now. Now that I have it working, I actually like it. But, it has been a long road to getting a usable configuration. The average user would have a heck of a time getting to this point (unless of course all they use is IE and Office).
I had crazy problems like: The OS writing app configuration information to 'Virtual Store' and reading from the original file locations. Let's see a non-techie figure that one out.
In the start menu folders you cannot create a shortcut (even as the administrator) via explorer. You have to do it on the command line. Yep, really consumer friendly.
Also, why did they screw up the sound so badly. I can't bring up one mixer and set input and output levels. No, I have to go digging through the sound device configuration dialogs and look at each device individually. Nuts!
None of this has anything to do with hardware.
It takes more than a 10 minute demo to see Vista's ugly side. I will stick with Vista. If you can work through the quirks, it is an improvement over XP. But, I can certainly see why many gave up and went back.
Buried in the text is this statement:
Small, hand-held cameras shall not be considered remote sensing space systems.
So, whatever you do, don't use a tripod!
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Let me guess. GA-ASI (maker of the MQ-9 Reaper drone) makes voting machines too.
You can't get out of the doctor's office without signing a HIPAA waiver so the doctor can share your health information with their partners.
I guess assuming that this partner would be the radiologist, neurologist ... involved in my case was foolish. Plus, they obviously have to disclose to the insurance company to get paid. And the insurance company runs the database from which they sell your information. Great!
This statement scares me even more: It's not just for insurers, either; employers who check applicants' credit scores will surely be interested in their health scores as well.
I don't really see how this is legal. I'm sure most companies would love to be able to cherry pick employees based on health risk. But, whatever happened to the risk sharing aspect of insurance?
If insurance companies will only insure people who don't need it, they have no reason to exist. Oh, excuse me, I totally forgot about those poor stock holders :->
It sounds like the people who will get hurt the most by this are once again the individuals buying their own health insurance and also small businesses.
There has to be a better way.
That was their excuse ten years ago. It would take ten years to see any benefit, so why bother?
Of course, if Bush administration had created a real energy policy eight years ago (rather than a custom crafted oil company profit assurance plan) oil prices might be lower today.
Yes, Vista looks great. I'm running it on two (new) machines now. Now that I have it working, I actually like it. But, it has been a long road to getting a usable configuration. The average user would have a heck of a time getting to this point (unless of course all they use is IE and Office).
I had crazy problems like: The OS writing app configuration information to 'Virtual Store' and reading from the original file locations. Let's see a non-techie figure that one out.
In the start menu folders you cannot create a shortcut (even as the administrator) via explorer. You have to do it on the command line. Yep, really consumer friendly.
Also, why did they screw up the sound so badly. I can't bring up one mixer and set input and output levels. No, I have to go digging through the sound device configuration dialogs and look at each device individually. Nuts!
None of this has anything to do with hardware.
It takes more than a 10 minute demo to see Vista's ugly side. I will stick with Vista. If you can work through the quirks, it is an improvement over XP. But, I can certainly see why many gave up and went back.
Buried in the text is this statement: Small, hand-held cameras shall not be considered remote sensing space systems. So, whatever you do, don't use a tripod!