Monday Roundup: Dallas County on Univac? “One Million Dollars!” & More
- Help me count all the things wrong with this story where Dallas County government wants to start deleting emails after 90 days. 1) They want to delete emails, which are government records. 2) They store email records on “tape.” What is this, 1962? 3) They claim storing emails is expensive. 4) Government expects us to keep, at our expense, certain records, but they can’t be arsed to do the same. 5) Tapes??? Really? WTF? 6) ????
- On the same weekend I decided to hang on to my recently delivered Plano local phone book because I’m sick of remote online city guides that pretend to be local, my attorney is giving up on phone book advertising. I’m not a huge fan of phone books, but I’m seeing a value in local ones. Maybe I’m just burned out on surfing, maybe it’s just the logic behind Wick Allison’s theory of local print newspapers that rubbed off on me. Your thoughts.
No one would argue the American health care industry doesn’t need some improvement. Especially less government interference, mandates and collusion with the insurance industry. But given it’s literally a $2 trillion industry, this headline — “Experts: U.S. health care system wastes millions“ – well, what’s the problem?
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Prepare yourself to read more from “experts” regarding how awful our healthcare system is. Such “studies” and expert pronouncements are going to be the run up to National Healthcare. And, yes, I know Obama is not asking for National Healthcare . . . . exactly.
One article this weekend pointed out how Medicare costs were so much lower than those of private insurance. This is likely true. However, we also are faced with declining numbers of doctors who will accept medicare. In addition, no Medicare recipient can exist on Medicare alone. Literally all of must have supplemental insurance. I don’t believe enough attention has been given this last point. Every retired, ederly patient must deal with a complex set of rules from Medicare about what will and won’t get paid, then find a private policy, with its own byzantine set of rules, to cover the balance. Maybe the media could stop yammering about the alleged 42-50 million uninsured in this country long enough to actually report on the debacle that is medicare for our aged population.