Interestingly, it's cases like these that highlight who the bulk of the uninsured are in the U.S. -- that is people who have jobs and make it over the poverty line, but whose employers can't afford to offer health insurance (typically small businesses).
Medicaid covers those below the poverty line, through state and federal funding; Medicare covers those over 65 and the disabled; and private insurance covers the bulk of the working-but-not-poor population. There is also a small percentage who pays "out of pocket", i.e. doesn't use any type of insurance but still manages to pay for health care.
The incentive system is therefore a little bit problematic, then. For instance, if you wind up having a serious health problem, you may be better off quitting your job and spending down your assets. You'll then go below the poverty line, and then receiving Medicaid insurance which will pay for your doctors fees, hospitalizations, nursing homes, and even prescriptions. Then once you're in the Medicaid system, you stand to lose all these benefits if you actually do try to go out and get a job again.
I've been optimistic about this diet for my patients as well -- the Mediterranean diet seems to export fairly well into the diet of other cultures. There was a Lancet article on a trial of the Mediterranean diet in India.
I'm pretty lazy as it is, and overweight, so I received an Eloton Simcycle for my birthday. (About $75-$99 from a Sports Authority or so). It's roughly the size of a medium-sized dog or cat, but the difference between a dog or cat and this Simcycle is that you can pedal on the Simcycle, and the Simcycle is largely heavier and more solidly constructed than most dogs or cats. It's just two pedals on a large solid metal disc, with tension resistance from a nylon strap, in a chrome-plated type get-up.
The interesting thing is that it has a serial-style interface that plugs into Windows PC's and comes with integrated software. Among other usual things (like reporting your speed / time / calories burned), it also has about 7 movies of outdoor courses which you can bike through, and an integrated MP3 player.
Honestly, though, the software don't lend itself well to maintaining attention -- at least for me, anyhow. It makes me think of being on Gilligan's Island, and what would happen if the Professor rigged up a bamboo stationary bike to run a movie projector (which may very well have been an episode).
But if you're looking for something to do while sitting down for hours on end (like I do on the couch while watching 80 channels of nothing on TV), and are content not to burn calories in as dedicated fashion as real exercise, you might try this. There's also apparently a strap you can get to lash your wheeled-chair to the Simcycle in order to stop you from careening off into the other end of the room.
I haven't lost any weight from using this machine, and the thing now prevents my wife from sitting on my end of the couch, but it's fun to show people random technology, I guess.
(I am a medical doctor, but none of this constitutes medical advice, nor is it an endorsement for the product.)
(That being said, one piece of non-medical advice I do tend to give out to patients, and to not follow myself, is to tell people to physically remove their couches from their living rooms and replace them with exercise equipment.)
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You mean like the alternate design with stages that used the Saturn F-1 engine? http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal114/SpaceRac e/sec500/sec542.htm
has photos and descriptions of the preliminary designs.
Seems like the CEV will likely be top-mounted rather than side-mounted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_Exploration_Vehi cle
(Please, no side-talking jokes.)
Interestingly, it's cases like these that highlight who the bulk of the uninsured are in the U.S. -- that is people who have jobs and make it over the poverty line, but whose employers can't afford to offer health insurance (typically small businesses). Medicaid covers those below the poverty line, through state and federal funding; Medicare covers those over 65 and the disabled; and private insurance covers the bulk of the working-but-not-poor population. There is also a small percentage who pays "out of pocket", i.e. doesn't use any type of insurance but still manages to pay for health care. The incentive system is therefore a little bit problematic, then. For instance, if you wind up having a serious health problem, you may be better off quitting your job and spending down your assets. You'll then go below the poverty line, and then receiving Medicaid insurance which will pay for your doctors fees, hospitalizations, nursing homes, and even prescriptions. Then once you're in the Medicaid system, you stand to lose all these benefits if you actually do try to go out and get a job again.
I've been optimistic about this diet for my patients as well -- the Mediterranean diet seems to export fairly well into the diet of other cultures. There was a Lancet article on a trial of the Mediterranean diet in India.
I'm pretty lazy as it is, and overweight, so I received an Eloton Simcycle for my birthday. (About $75-$99 from a Sports Authority or so). It's roughly the size of a medium-sized dog or cat, but the difference between a dog or cat and this Simcycle is that you can pedal on the Simcycle, and the Simcycle is largely heavier and more solidly constructed than most dogs or cats. It's just two pedals on a large solid metal disc, with tension resistance from a nylon strap, in a chrome-plated type get-up.
The interesting thing is that it has a serial-style interface that plugs into Windows PC's and comes with integrated software. Among other usual things (like reporting your speed / time / calories burned), it also has about 7 movies of outdoor courses which you can bike through, and an integrated MP3 player.
Honestly, though, the software don't lend itself well to maintaining attention -- at least for me, anyhow. It makes me think of being on Gilligan's Island, and what would happen if the Professor rigged up a bamboo stationary bike to run a movie projector (which may very well have been an episode).
But if you're looking for something to do while sitting down for hours on end (like I do on the couch while watching 80 channels of nothing on TV), and are content not to burn calories in as dedicated fashion as real exercise, you might try this. There's also apparently a strap you can get to lash your wheeled-chair to the Simcycle in order to stop you from careening off into the other end of the room.
I haven't lost any weight from using this machine, and the thing now prevents my wife from sitting on my end of the couch, but it's fun to show people random technology, I guess.
Slashdot has mentioned this "bike" before, in the context of an accessory, the GameBox, which allows you to control video games (partially) with the pedals.
(I am a medical doctor, but none of this constitutes medical advice, nor is it an endorsement for the product.)
(That being said, one piece of non-medical advice I do tend to give out to patients, and to not follow myself, is to tell people to physically remove their couches from their living rooms and replace them with exercise equipment.)