News Boulderites can use – Canadian Health Care: Patients Waiting Longer Than Ever For Treatment – Investors.com
The same report says that a Canadian consulting firm found that “as many as 900,000 Ontarians are experiencing problems accessing medical care, a problem that is expected to get worse and send more of them across the border for health care.”
Of course, Colorado and Boulderites can do it better. Yea, and your arrogance knows no bounds, just leave us out of it OK?
So not Boulder – 76 percent of Americans approve of Christmas in public schools – Washington Times
Earlier this week a New York City school superintendent ordered Christmas festivities be restored at a Brooklyn elementary school after the principal declared the small campus to be a Santa-free zone.
It must be miserable to be a liberal on campus right now, because you can’t keep up with the leftist demands for political correctness that you have no foundation for resisting (since comtemp…
The death spiral continues – $7,150 ObamaCare Deductible Coming In 2017: HHS – Investors.com
Americans are balking at ObamaCare’s high deductibles. The backlash will only intensify as bronze-plan deductibles max out at $7,150 in 2017, up another $300.
Prof Greets Incoming Class of Precious Snowflakes with Speech Crushing Their PC Beliefs
Let’s get something straight right now. You have no right to be unoffended. You have a right to be offended with regularity. It is the price you pay for living in a free society. If you don’t understand that you are confused and dangerously so. In part, I blame your high school teachers for failing to teach you basic civics before you got your diploma. Most of you went to the public high schools, which are a disaster. Don’t tell me that offended you. I went to a public high school.
Amen, read the whole thing.
Don’t believe people who tell you “the science is settled” on climate change. Studies of scientists show the opposite.
Climate Change: No, It’s Not a 97 Percent Consensus | National Review Online
Conclusion…
Given the politics of modern academia and the scientific community, it’s not unlikely that most scientists involved in climate-related studies believe in anthropogenic global warming, and likely believe, too, that it presents a problem. However, there is no consensus approaching 97 percent. A vigorous, vocal minority exists. The science is far from settled.
Read the whole thing.
I’m hopeful they saw this coming? – Local health-care execs: Current system ‘dysfunctional’ – BizWest
Excerpts and comments:
Flanagan co-founded Nextera in 2011, which offers primary-care service to members for a monthly fee. “Insurance should be used for what all types of insurance is for — a catastrophe.”
Hallelujah, amen. Insurance works best, when it operates under the premise of providing coverage for an unexpected event. Running money through an insurance company, or any bureaucracy for day to day aches and pains is inefficient and always will be.
“We have a dysfunctional ecosystem,” Dr. Clint Flanagan, co-founder of Nextera Healthcare Inc., said of the current system. “We’ve lost that doctor-patient relationship.” He said more people are traveling to urgent-care and emergency rooms for the types of conditions that can be taken care of by a primary-care doctor.
“The problem is that there are fewer and fewer primary-care practices. Doctors have become employees of hospitals.”
Primary care doctors are treated poorly by the insurance system and Obamacare mandates. To many, the solution is to become an employee of a hospital group. In Boulder, the Boulder Community Hospital System has purchased many stand alone practices in the last few years. I don’t see how a high cost provider of healthcare, that is a hospital, buying up private practices is a positive for the consumer.
What surprises me is that more primary care doctors don’t elect to start a practice that operates outside of the insurance/hospital monopoly like Nextera does. Personally, I use Insight Primary Care, which I would recommend to Denver readers, or Boulderites who like to drive south or work in Denver. I believe there’s also a primary care doctor group in Longmont that operates outside “the system.”
Several roundtable participants shared personal experiences that left them feeling like victims of a system out of control.
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Gustav Hoyer, CEO of MyChoiceMD, a company that is working with physicians to shed light on pricing, said systemwide, “Patients don’t get treated like the customer. “How often do you go get a service, then get the cost later?” he asked. “Nobody can tell us how to fix this. … What we have now is a disaster.”
I can relate. Just recently we were driving back from picking up our daughter from a ballet intensive in Texas. She has had medical problems and was having “issues” the last week she was there. She has been a patient of Children’s Hospital in Aurora for the last 5 years. It was a weekend and we spoke with the doctor on call as we drove, and it was decided it was best for her/us to stop by the hospital and get some tests run. So she had a blood draw (twice because the first one caramelized) and a stool sample. Due to the blood draw complications, we were at Children’s for 4 hours, which was frankly ridiculous. What was even more ridiculous is the “list price” bill from the ER, over $6000. There was no surgery, no broken bones, no MRI’s or CT scans, no sophisticated procedures of any type, with the possible exception of the lab work, which I don’t believe is part of this bill. I have a hard time understanding the justification of a $6000 bill. It will be interesting to see how this bill gets adjudicated by the insurance company.
The general population needs to take responsibility for their own health care. Trusting the government to do it for you and do it efficiently, is trust misplaced.
A moment of temporary sanity: Boulder staff recommends scaling back much of Folsom right-sizing’ project – Boulder Daily Camera
Must be an election around the corner.
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SWAT Team Responds To Protesters Once Again Handing Out ‘Jury Nullification’ Fliers « CBS Denver
Denver police have once again raided protesters camped outside the Justice Center
This article is very short on details, but there is nothing to suggest a SWAT Team was needed. I certainly hope there is more to the story to justify such thuggish action by the Denver Police.
Eyes of the World, an instrumental (piano) interpretation performed by Holly Bowling, recorded at the Cadillac Hotel in San Francisco. Yea… the Bernie Sanders t-shirt is hard to swallow, although probably not all that unusual for a “dead-head.” That said, I really enjoy this performance of one of my favorite Dead songs…
Added 9/16 at 21:18 – Below is a more traditional live version. It take about 3 minutes until the beginning of “Eyes” from a lyrical point of view…
And then there’s this thing called a “studio version.” If you’re even a close to a dead head, which is all I claim to be, you know what I mean.
Apparently Marcia Benshoof is the Steve Jobs of Connect of Health Colorado – Lawmakers concerned about lucrative contract for exchange sales chief | Health News Colorado
The exchange board met in secret during an executive session on Monday, then voted in public on the contract for Marcia Benshoof. She will receive $120 per hour and up to $150,000 during the next six months. A spokesman called Benshoof’s work “invaluable.”
Altogether over the past three years, Benshoof has received $542,880 for consulting work and expenses. On top of that, she worked for seven months in 2014 and early this year as an exchange employee. During those seven months, she earned $165,000 a year or about $96,200 in additional pay.
That’s quite a “take” don’t ya think?
Without Government, Who Would Force A Men’s Barbershop To Cut Women’s Hair? | Zero Hedge
“I didn’t really consider it so much a discrimination thing as – it’s a barbershop… for guys”
Can she sue him for doing a bad job cutting her hair?
The only issue I have with Bob Greenlee’s editorial taking Boulder City Council to task regarding their electric power municipalization is that the ‘g’ in god should be capitalized – Bob Greenlee: It’s time to re-think Boulder’s muni scheme – Boulder Daily Camera
Here’s the city’s problem: Boulder is attempting to win a political battle from a regulatory body charged with administering regulated monopolies. But the city doesn’t like being told what it can and can’t do because it harbors a mistaken belief that because it has a “home rule” charter and is attempting to do god’s work by creating more renewable energy, it should be allowed to manipulate and disregard established legislative rules. This isn’t the first time Boulder has attempted to immerse itself in a convoluted line of reasoning.
So Boulder – Everything Wrong with California in One Photo | Power Line
If the elite Grand Poobah progressives of Boulder City Council thought they could get away with this, they would.
The Rise of the Culture of Victimhood Explained – Hit & Run : Reason.com
The argument in the article is that U.S. society is in the midst of a large-scale moral change in which we are experiencing the emergence of a victimhood culture that is distinct from the honor cultures and dignity cultures of the past. If true, this bodes really bad for future social and political peace.
If true?
What Homeless People Taught Me About Success | SUCCESS
After Judge Craig Mitchell had sentenced a man to prison a few years back, he was out on parole and decided to pay the judge a visit in his chambers. This man told Mitchell he was living at The Midnight Mission, a homeless shelter on Skid Row and invited the judge to stop by.
So Judge Mitchell, who loves to run, jogged over to the Mission to see where the parolee was living. He was impressed by how they were helping people get off the streets, how they were changing their lives for the better. Inspired, he met with the shelter’s president, Larry Adamson, and they decided to start a running club.
As they say…. read the whole thing.
As a facebook friend queried, “Where’s Seagate?” – Top 50 Employers in Electronic Design: 2015 | Communications content from Electronic Design
I have a list, although it would fall into the bonus point category of Electronic Design’s judging criteria:
Seagate peeps, this is your time to chime in. The above may no longer be true. I’m not in frequent touch with anyone from Seagate so please correct me if I’m wrong or feel free to provide me with additional bullet points.
Stunned I tell you, just stunned. Who would have EVER thought that a $15/hr minimum wage could result in loss of jobs? –Why Did Seattle Restaurants Lose 1,000 Jobs? Report Blames The Minimum Wage | The Daily Caller
‘The largest one month job decline since a 1,300 drop in January 2009’
You can’t make this stuff up.
