Wednesday, February 25, 2004

2:20:46 AM   "Can't upstream because "Can't write stream because TCP/IP error code 10054 - Connection reset by peer."  // Radio sucks.  Well I take that back.  Radio is a beautiful thing.  Hosting at Userland sucks.

2:18:46 AM   Ebert: 'This is the most violent film I have ever seen'. Roger Ebert: The movie is 126 minutes long, and I would guess that at least 100 of those minutes, maybe more, are concerned specifically and graphically with the details of the torture and death of Jesus. [Drudge Retort] // Why on earth would one go to see this ?

2:11:50 AM   Tom Peters posts 16 points on outsourcing/offshoring. [via John Robb's Weblog] 6. Americans' "unearned wage advantage" could be erased permanently. ("There is no job which is America's God-given right anymore." -- Carly Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard) //  JRobb picked number 6 and it is the one which irks me the most at the minute. //  Have you tried to call HP Support lately ?  Good luck, in the old day it was just // untrained people reading from a manual.  Now if you are lucky you get transferred // over to India and about the 6th call you will get thru and might get an Indian person // speaking slow enough that you might understand them.

1:41:54 AM   "This family typifies the problem we have in our whole health care system: the affordability of health insurance, the tremendous cost you can incur when you get very sick and the question of who is going to pick up the tab," "The charges are inflated because of the way the payment system works," "After analyzing the Jellisons' 49-page hospital bill, Forbes' group says the $116,000 total would likely have been reduced to about $25,000 if an insurance company were paying the bill, a 78% discount." "If they accept $25,000 from an insurance company on a routine basis, and what they're charging us for the same thing is $116,000, " Uninsured get bigger bills. [vai All Headline News - Top News and Headlines]  Healthcare in America has is completely run amuck.  If you are insured you pay 50-75% less AND you then have insurance pick up 80%.  If you are not insured, you are completely out of luck.   Where on gods earth do these hospitals get off charging thousands of dollars for simple procedures sometimes using 30 year old outdated equipment yet continuing to charge, charge, charge.  It is time for change in healthcare.  That or my second career is going to be as a doctor.