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How Books Are Made — Charlie Stross explains it all to you. This dovetails nicely with my widely-linked recent piece on what my publisher does for me [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]. Go read him. You will learn.
Old Lisbon (Not New Amsterdam) — Strange Maps with an odd bit of centuries old New World fraud.
Hallucinatory Architecture of the Future — A nifty feature from Dark Roasted Blend.
Other Life in the Multiverse? — A crazy cool article from Centauri Dreams for all you skiffy geeks.
Rep. Henry Waxman makes remarks on health-care costs at White House health summit — [Republican Rep.] Paul Ryan has a proposal right now to say that Medicare recipients in the future ought to have just a little voucher, and then they can shop for their own insurance. They can be prudent shoppers. Right. That’s why I have cancer. Because I wasn’t a prudent shopper, like a good conservative. And we know how transparent healthcare pricing is, right, to help me in my prudent shopping? Tell me again about this Republican “plan” for healthcare, because it sure as hell ain’t connected to the medical reality I live in.
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2/26/2010
Writing time yesterday: 60 minutes
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 8.0 (slept well)
This morning’s weigh-in: 225.8
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 4/10
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Posted: 5:36 am Fri February 26 2010 |
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Steve Buchheit
February 26th, 2010 at 11:32 amIt’s a healthcare plan for people who haven’t dealt with reality for several decades. “Hey, let’s save money by privatizing student loans, after all the market can do a better job,” only now we’re going to save almost a hundred million a year by bringing it all back in house (and increase lending). “Let’s offer private healthcare extras on top of medicare because it’ll save us money,” you know, except for mandating overpayments in the legislation. “Let’s privatize IRS collections because the market will save us money,” except now we’ll save another few hundred million by bringing that all back in house and we’ll also improve the public’s impression of the IRS because most of the egregious practices have been done by the private collectors.
Saying that they’ve stuck their heads into their ideological sands is being generous and doesn’t cover the extent that they’ve (the conservatives) have lost touch.
Stephen Watkins
February 26th, 2010 at 12:45 pmIt’s my estimation that the Republican healthcare plan is about protecting the pockets of those who are most likely to vote Republican in the coming elections (as well as business interests and wealthy elites, who are typically part of the Republican agenda). Right now it also appears that these are the same folks who are likely to vote _at all_ in the coming elections.
IMO, the Democratic plan is flawed, but it gets points for effort, for at least _trying_ to care about ordinary, real people. (Also IMO, Healthcare is never going to be quite where it needs to be in our country if the highest motive in the health care industry continues to be the pursuit of profit. I have nothing against profit – I am a capitalist pig after all – but when people’s lives are on the line, the first question in the industry’s mind ought not to be “how can I get paid?”) It’s really not too much to ask that caring for the health of the members of society be a societal burden, not an individual one.
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