This is a good reason to employ the strategy(?) of skipping "health care" altogether and just showing up to the hospital in a body bag.

"OH BUT THE BILL WOULDN'T BE SO HIGH IF YOU TOOK BETTER CARE OF YOURSELF"

Disgusted,

Currently, this article is making my head hurt. Want a headache? Read some of the comments. If you get past 50 without wanting to put your fist through the monitor, you're a better {,wo}man than I am ( Read more... )

I won't be linking anything here because I caught the subject of my post from Google News. It sums up my feelings on the matter perfectly. To be a little more specific, I fully expect corporate funding of propaganda at election time: ads that appeal to emotion instead of stating the facts. (But then again, aren't all of these political ads ( Read more... )

FCC chairman wants network neutrality, wired and wireless:

The nondiscrimination principle says that ISPs can't "discriminate against particular Internet content or applications," which means that traffic throttling of particular apps and protocols would be forbidden, even in cases where an ISP does not block access entirely.

The transparency ( Read more... )

Just glancing over the Google News front page, I see a double case of hypocrisy. I don't know if the GOP are staging astroturf campaigns, but I do know that the cries of "un-American" from the Dems is... inappropriate at best. A couple years ago, the sides were somewhat switched. It was the GOP (or their unofficial spokesmen on talk shows) ( Read more... )

With all the brouhaha over Steve Jobs and his apparent liver transplant, it demonstrates a key reality that I've had to keep in mind: people like Jobs have access to any health care they need because they have money. Despite the other brouhaha going on with regard to health care reform, I really do have one major health-changing event between life ( Read more... )

OK, I have some deep-seated reasons for never wanting to live in Texas again despite having grown up there, but this piece of political lobbying takes the cake.

Executive Summary: Either allow for-profit automated ticketing companies to milk revenue from motorists without due process and without regard for safety, or TAXES TAXES TAXES.

Elected Officials Doing Nothing Is Not Working:

Let's be clear: mass shootings are symptoms of a vastly larger gun violence problem in America that we enable by our inaction and inattention.
OK, so let's treat the symptoms by passing a bunch of ineffective legislation so our money-grabbers in Congress can be seen as doing something other than ( Read more... )

I read articles like this on on Chicago's privatization blitz and can't help but think that the only way to financial independence is to be corrupt.

But we all know I'll be thinking this same thing 30 years from now when I'm still working.

A few thoughts on this AIG bonus junk ( Read more... )