Re: Market-Based, Deeply-Discounted Surgery for Cash, Payable in Advance

2012-04-08 Thread Brian Thornton
This seems like what I propose in higher ed. Let parents start saving up now for kids and let it grow along with the foundations. On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Gruss Gott wrote: > > The health care cost dilemma has nothing to do with Obama or any president or > evil insurance companies or gre

Re: Market-Based, Deeply-Discounted Surgery for Cash, Payable in Advance

2012-04-08 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Alternatively a single payer system like Canada's makes the prisoner's dilemma not relevant here. It can come from the general tax base or require people to pay premiums and copays. the current system is so wasteful. Consider this, the largest hospital in Ontario has a 3 person office to handle in

Re: Market-Based, Deeply-Discounted Surgery for Cash, Payable in Advance

2012-04-08 Thread Gruss Gott
The health care cost dilemma has nothing to do with Obama or any president or evil insurance companies or greedy doctors or uneducated consumers or antiquated technology or any other boogie men. It's all of them combined. It's a market failure or "prisoners dilemma" thus Obamacare is largely

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-08 Thread Jerry Barnes
"HP Envy 17 3D" Here's what I found: http://www.gog.com/en/support/fallout/ibread_firstb_common_troubleshooting_stepsi On the subject of games, particularly older games, my favorite of all time is X-Com. Outstanding game. There is a remake of sorts in the making right now: http://en.wikiped

Fwd: BLONDES EXPLAINING EASTER

2012-04-08 Thread Larry C. Lyons
BLONDES EXPLAINING EASTER Three blondes died and found themselves standing before St. Peter. He told them that before they could enter the Kingdom, they had to tell him what Easter represented. The first blonde, an American, said "Easter is a holiday where they have a big feast and we give tha