I was rather disappointed. Samzepus goes for some cheap nerdy laughs while neither he nor the article said anything about how a Dialysis machine works, or why a conventional one can't be used on a 6lb baby. Wikipedia says
In hemodialysis, the patient's blood is pumped through the blood compartment of a dialyzer, exposing it to a semipermeable membrane. The cleansed blood is then returned via the circuit back to the body. Ultrafiltration occurs by increasing the hydrostatic pressure across the dialyzer membrane. This usually is done by applying a negative pressure to the dialysate compartment of the dialyzer. This pressure gradient causes water and dissolved solutes to move from blood to dialysate, and allows removal of several litres of excess fluid during a typical 3 to 5 hour treatment. In the US, hemodialysis treatments are typically given in a dialysis center three times per week (due in the US to Medicare reimbursement rules), however, as of 2007 over 2,000 people in the US are dialyzing at home more frequently for various treatment lengths.[2] Studies have demonstrated the clinical benefits of dialyzing 5 to 7 times a week, for 6 to 8 hours. These frequent long treatments are often done at home, while sleeping but home dialysis is a flexible modality and schedules can be changed day to day, week to week. In general, studies have shown that both increased treatment length and frequency are clinically beneficial.[3]
Rather than the picture of the mom and her kid, I think a diagram of how one works would be a lot more helpful.
Not only was the summary bad, TFA was bad as well. Why couldn't a conventional dialysis machine be used? It doesn't say.
I'll take a tax hike if it means I don't have to buy insurance! The insurance companies are in it for a profit; they have to feed their shareholders and the insanely expensive CEOs, boards, etc.
Something has to ration medical care
Tossing a coin (luck determines if you can get insurance in America today) or throwing the poor to the wolves (or worse, throwing the lower middle class to the wolves while treating the poor, like it is now) are IMO bad choices.
government will resist paying for new technology,
Not if technologists are bribing legislators with campaign cash
plus the regulatory system will make investments in new medical technology more hazardous.
Unproven - today's mammoth insurance companies are every bit as bureaucratic as any government, perhaps more so.
Illinois is a farm state, and I live right in the middle of it. You know what nitrates are used for here, don't you? I mean, besides explosives and methamphetamines?
I'm sure I get lungsfull all the time. Not that I'm happy about it.
The difference between a job and a wife is, after ten years the job still sucks.
Girlfriend (NOT SAFE FOR WORK!! The link you are drooling at may not be work safe! If a boss or coworker saw this article, claim that it was spam and blame the IT guys. Otherwise, continue to read it until your lewd urges are satisfied)
It doesn't matter what the value of 2, two and two is true, two and one is zero, two and three is two. And there are 10 kinds of people, those who know how modern digital computers work and those who don't.
Sometimes dweebs who want to be nerds get mod points; but it's only on topic if it has some connection to the article, summary, or comment, and the comment itself can't be offtopic. There was one today where AC did "first post", it and every other response to it was modded either offtopic or troll (some were bad trolls) but even a reference to HHGTG would have been offtopic. Well, you could have gotten a "funny" (no extra karma) mod with twisting Marvin's words ("Trolls, hate them or loathe them, you can't ignore them" or "Offtopic? Don't talk to ME about offtopic!")
I'd rather they do away with medicaid and cover everyone under medicare regardless of age. I know quite a few old folks that make me look young by comparison, and have yet to hear a sinle one of them complain about their coverage.
My hospital bill for my vitrectomy, an outpatient surgery, was over $6,000. I have to pay $600, and that doesn't even cover the doctors. Ralph, my 86 year old drinking buddy, went in the hospital for a burst appendix and was in ICU for over a month (he's home now, but bedridden). I shudder to see what he would have to pay without medicare.
I think most of the citizens of Illinois don't care what cell he's in, so long as he goes. There's a bumper sticker on the refrigerator at Felbers that says "A. Hitler, J. Stalin, R. Blago".
I don't think there's a single person living south of I-80 that thinks he's a good Governor, and damned few even in Chicago that do.
Remember kids: Just because copyright infringement may not be OK doesn't mean you can't share work that the copyright owner WANTS shared. The danger is having downloads go into a shared folder and downloading the RIAA's crap instead. You not only get dreck, but you get sued for your mistake.
It seems to me that there ought to be proof of intent. If I'm trying to download The Station's The Fog but I get Radiohead's completely different song by the same name instead, why should Radiohead's label be able to sue me?
Or there would be a blanket party. That's how narcs are dealt with in the military. When I was in the Air Force they had to medivac one guy home after such a party.
I wonder if the GP AC has ever heard of a fellow from ancient times named "Judas"?
Sorry, but I don't follow your logic at all. Income tax has absolutely nothing whatever to do with health insurance in the US. I'm locked into my employer's insurance plan because he has a shitload of employees and can therefore get a good rate; a rate I can't get on my own, or a small business can get either.
I sit in front of a computer every day, get no exersize except walking home from the bar when I'm too drunk to drive, I quit smoking cigarettes in 1999 but I'd smoked them for thirty years, and I eat at McDonalds almost daily. But if they had access to my medical records they would find only:
1. Hemroid surgery 2. Cataract surgery 3. Laser surgery to weld a retina back together 4. Cryotherapy to repair the same torn retina 5. Vitrectomy surgery (eye's fluid removed and replaced with a nitrogen bubble, retina reattached)
Nothing else for probably the last twenty years. No other doctor visits. In short, this is kind of bogus; it won't do them any good whatever.
At the same time, health care is something that is a necessity. So if they price it out of range, how do you protect yourself?
That's why the civilized world has universal health care.
I hate government intervention in any market
The health care "market" is not a free market, as I found out in April after my vitrectomy (link may not be sfw). The prescription eye drops I had to take after the surgery varied widely in price from pharmacy to pharmacy, but my co-pay was the same no matter where I boiught it. In the end I got it at the closest drug store, which turned out to be the second most expensive.
I can only get insurance my employer provides. When the market isn't free, government SHOULD intervene.
My best friend died from lack of insurance. RIP Jim Dawson, 1952-1992.
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I was rather disappointed. Samzepus goes for some cheap nerdy laughs while neither he nor the article said anything about how a Dialysis machine works, or why a conventional one can't be used on a 6lb baby. Wikipedia says
Rather than the picture of the mom and her kid, I think a diagram of how one works would be a lot more helpful.
Not only was the summary bad, TFA was bad as well. Why couldn't a conventional dialysis machine be used? It doesn't say.
Is there a doctor in the house?
But he said "The sex of these good programmers is irrelevant".
I'll take a tax hike if it means I don't have to buy insurance! The insurance companies are in it for a profit; they have to feed their shareholders and the insanely expensive CEOs, boards, etc.
Something has to ration medical care
Tossing a coin (luck determines if you can get insurance in America today) or throwing the poor to the wolves (or worse, throwing the lower middle class to the wolves while treating the poor, like it is now) are IMO bad choices.
government will resist paying for new technology,
Not if technologists are bribing legislators with campaign cash
plus the regulatory system will make investments in new medical technology more hazardous.
Unproven - today's mammoth insurance companies are every bit as bureaucratic as any government, perhaps more so.
I doubt this takes the asbestos from brakes out of the air though
They haven't used asbestos in brake linings for a long time.
Illinois is a farm state, and I live right in the middle of it. You know what nitrates are used for here, don't you? I mean, besides explosives and methamphetamines?
I'm sure I get lungsfull all the time. Not that I'm happy about it.
[citation needed]
Here ya go:
Wife
The difference between a job and a wife is, after ten years the job still sucks.
Girlfriend (NOT SAFE FOR WORK!! The link you are drooling at may not be work safe! If a boss or coworker saw this article, claim that it was spam and blame the IT guys. Otherwise, continue to read it until your lewd urges are satisfied)
Because we all know wikipedia is unreliable.
How about nude mud wrestling? I'd pay to see that!
It doesn't matter what the value of 2, two and two is true, two and one is zero, two and three is two. And there are 10 kinds of people, those who know how modern digital computers work and those who don't.
It only goes to three?
Oh wait, what number system are you using?
You must be in management and not a programmer. A programmer would want fewer programmers, because scarcity raises the price of anything.
You just scored four points (so far), but none of them count!
No apology needed.
it was supposed to be a dumb joke, a play on concepts, but someone modded my comment as "insightful",
Better than having an insightful comment modded "funny"!
People died as a result of what put Ryan in prison, including some children that were burned to death.
Dude, The Station is composed of friends of mine and they ROCK. I blogged at K5 the first time I saw them. Joe Frew introduced me to them later.
Sometimes dweebs who want to be nerds get mod points; but it's only on topic if it has some connection to the article, summary, or comment, and the comment itself can't be offtopic. There was one today where AC did "first post", it and every other response to it was modded either offtopic or troll (some were bad trolls) but even a reference to HHGTG would have been offtopic. Well, you could have gotten a "funny" (no extra karma) mod with twisting Marvin's words ("Trolls, hate them or loathe them, you can't ignore them" or "Offtopic? Don't talk to ME about offtopic!")
I'd rather they do away with medicaid and cover everyone under medicare regardless of age. I know quite a few old folks that make me look young by comparison, and have yet to hear a sinle one of them complain about their coverage.
My hospital bill for my vitrectomy, an outpatient surgery, was over $6,000. I have to pay $600, and that doesn't even cover the doctors. Ralph, my 86 year old drinking buddy, went in the hospital for a burst appendix and was in ICU for over a month (he's home now, but bedridden). I shudder to see what he would have to pay without medicare.
I think most of the citizens of Illinois don't care what cell he's in, so long as he goes. There's a bumper sticker on the refrigerator at Felbers that says "A. Hitler, J. Stalin, R. Blago".
I don't think there's a single person living south of I-80 that thinks he's a good Governor, and damned few even in Chicago that do.
You should encrypt it with ROT-1, and sue the RIAA for DMCA violation. Jg zpv dbo sfbe uijt, zpv bsf voefs bssftu!
Remember kids: Just because copyright infringement may not be OK doesn't mean you can't share work that the copyright owner WANTS shared. The danger is having downloads go into a shared folder and downloading the RIAA's crap instead. You not only get dreck, but you get sued for your mistake.
It seems to me that there ought to be proof of intent. If I'm trying to download The Station's The Fog but I get Radiohead's completely different song by the same name instead, why should Radiohead's label be able to sue me?
Or there would be a blanket party. That's how narcs are dealt with in the military. When I was in the Air Force they had to medivac one guy home after such a party.
I wonder if the GP AC has ever heard of a fellow from ancient times named "Judas"?
You can't fool me, you're on the board of trustees and you want me to go back to college. Uh, hmm, OK, where do I sign!
Sorry, but I don't follow your logic at all. Income tax has absolutely nothing whatever to do with health insurance in the US. I'm locked into my employer's insurance plan because he has a shitload of employees and can therefore get a good rate; a rate I can't get on my own, or a small business can get either.
I would tell you that you won't be happy with the results of nationalizing a $2.1E12 per year industry, but you won't listen to that either.
Not if you're an American, especially if you're an American with ties to the insurance industry. If you're from Canada or Europe I'm listening.
I sit in front of a computer every day, get no exersize except walking home from the bar when I'm too drunk to drive, I quit smoking cigarettes in 1999 but I'd smoked them for thirty years, and I eat at McDonalds almost daily. But if they had access to my medical records they would find only:
1. Hemroid surgery
2. Cataract surgery
3. Laser surgery to weld a retina back together
4. Cryotherapy to repair the same torn retina
5. Vitrectomy surgery (eye's fluid removed and replaced with a nitrogen bubble, retina reattached)
Nothing else for probably the last twenty years. No other doctor visits. In short, this is kind of bogus; it won't do them any good whatever.
At the same time, health care is something that is a necessity. So if they price it out of range, how do you protect yourself?
That's why the civilized world has universal health care.
I hate government intervention in any market
The health care "market" is not a free market, as I found out in April after my vitrectomy (link may not be sfw). The prescription eye drops I had to take after the surgery varied widely in price from pharmacy to pharmacy, but my co-pay was the same no matter where I boiught it. In the end I got it at the closest drug store, which turned out to be the second most expensive.
I can only get insurance my employer provides. When the market isn't free, government SHOULD intervene.
My best friend died from lack of insurance. RIP Jim Dawson, 1952-1992.