Role of “Patient Advocate” (or PIA)
- Record keeping — chronology — doctors are confusing
- Schedule, execute, and follow up — docs and labs
- Insurance and financial manager
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There is a need to keep a lifetime chronology.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Save 13k$ per day by moving? I’d be gone tomorrow.
Saturday, May 23, 2009http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/05/new_york_taxpayers_voting_with.html
May 18, 2009
New York Taxpayers voting with their feet
Ethel C. Fenig
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Proving former President Ronald Reagan’s (R) adage that taxpayers vote with their feet, Tom Precious of the Buffalo News reports that billionaire Buffalo Sabres’ owner Thomas Golisano will save a reported $13,000 a day by moving from NY to Florida – punishing high income workers in New York state with a huge tax increase
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See the gooferment in general, politicians and bureaucrats in particular, forget that the rich can modify their behavior. The poor have no such luxury.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Unfunded liabilities!
Friday, May 22, 2009http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98487
FROM JEROME CORSI’S RED ALERT
New rules: Work ’til you die
Social Security, Medicare facing insolvency
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The U.S. Treasury, on a GAAP accounting basis, calculates the federal government had a $65.5 trillion negative net worth last year when the net present value of future Social Security and Medicare benefits are taken into consideration, a sum nearly identical to the annual gross domestic product, or GDP, of the world.
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Sure, it’ll be there. And, the sheeple believe the politicians!
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Writing: The Last Smart Generation (An index card novel)
Friday, May 22, 2009The Last Smart Generation
The old man was dying. His academic work was prestigious. He had even written some popular “shock” titles that were a commercial success. His wife had preceded him last year; his boy and girl were with him.
He mused over things. Most notably their future. He would leave them a substantive estate. Some to be taxed; some to be evaded. He could do nothing to assure their survival. He had warned about the fate of humanity. He chuckled at all the tin foil hats who feared asteroids, flu, Nazis, global warming, global cooling, and all manner of “disasters”. They were right to be afraid; they didn’t realize that the disaster was “hidden” in our genes and memes. He’d warned, but no one listened.
He’d try once more to give his children his message. But sadly, they weren’t “smart”. Not smart enough to understand the light at the end of the tunnel was a locomotive. Not smart enough to make their contemporaries understand. Not smart enought to avoid the onrushing disaster.
Sigh.
“Children, I’ve tried to warn society that we have turned on to a road that leads to destruction. The Greatest Generation was followed by the Me Generation. The Greatest Generation made a terrible mistake. They allowed themselves to pave the road for their children. They made it too easy, too ‘democratic’, too … too … too ‘universal’. The Nazi’s gave eugenics a bad name. They turned society off to the idea that our genes were worth studying. It wasn’t race that was to be focused on, but human achievement. The Athenians and the Spartans made the same mistake — brains and brawn must BOTH be valued. The Romans made the same mistake; the citizen soldier was replaced by mercenaries serving debauchery. Today, the global society means there is no reserve of ‘virtue’ to come forward and save humanity. ‘Coach potatoes’ develop the diseases of old age and quadriplegics as they watch mind numbing amounts of TV. The Greatest Generation made the mistake after WW2 to expand ‘education’ to everyone. The ‘education industry’ became a government job. No competition to get in; no competition with in it. High schools and colleges ‘graduated’ functional illiterates; grade inflation hid the truth. Your generation is ‘dumber’ than mine. For eons, the human race has struggled and evolved to solve new and harder problems. This is the last generation that innovates. I’ve tried to turn the Titanic away from the iceberg of stagnation. I tried to make people listen. Our genes need challenges and hardships. Our memes have made easy living that which is valued. Be afraid; be very afraid.”
The children ascribed it to the lunacy of old age. He was dying. The daughter was a plumber with a PhD in Theater. The son was an electrician with a double Masters in Fine Art and Creative Writing Criticism. They were comfortable.
It wasn’t long. In three generations, humanity died out. The Earth said good bye to another species that had failed to adapt to a new hardship. The hardship was unrecognized by any until they had slipped below critical mass. The descent was meteoric.
That old man had identified it. The hardship was “abundance”. Humanity was not smart enough to recognize the challenge and succumbed to it. All that was left was emptiness. There was no species to evolve up. The petrochemicals had all been used. Creation ended in loneliness. Earth was stuck in a dead end with no way out.
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LIBERTY: Repeal the “Direct Election of Senators” aka Seventeenth Amendment
Thursday, May 21, 2009http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98184
The death of shame
Posted: May 15, 2009 1:00 am Eastern
Hal Lindsey
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Speaker Pelosi’s press conference yesterday had to rank as one of the most bizarre political implosions since Richard Nixon’s infamous “I’m not a crook” press conference in April 1974.
Pelosi called the press conference to offer her fifth separate explanation for why she never knew about the application of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” despite the release of CIA memos and the recollection of other participants who clearly recall her being extensively briefed.
As press conferences go, it was painful to witness. Noted one observer, if Pelosi was not lying, she deserved an Academy Award for appearing as though she were. When questioned by reporters, she actually re-read her prepared statement – several times – stumbling over it as if she were cold-reading the description of an event involving someone else.
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I would attribute us to the “Direct Election of Senators” Seventeenth Amendment 1913. (The same year they created the Federal Reserve!)
Before that they were responsible to the State Legislatures and much more insulated from the public pressure. And, much more dignified!
It’s time to repeal that amendment and a few others!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Mandatory vacation like that paragon of productivity … France!
Thursday, May 21, 2009http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22794.html
Alan Grayson to introduce Paid Vacation Act
By ERIKA LOVLEY | 5/21/09 4:28 AM EDT
The legislation would be the first to make paid vacation time a requirement under federal law.
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Rep. Alan Grayson was standing in the middle of Disney World when it hit him: What Americans really need is a week of paid vacation.
So on Thursday, the Florida Democrat will introduce the Paid Vacation
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Argh!
What about the unemployed and retired?
Surely, it’s only fair that the Federal Gooferment pay them to vacate as well.
Argh!
This is a hidden tax. It’s unavoidable; hence it’s a tax.
This is an intrusion into the the employment contract. Employer offered and employee accepted. Now here comes Mommy Government to stick its nose in.
Does this mean that the Yankees have to give Alex R a week of paid vacation? He’ll just get into more trouble.
Why limit it to 100 person business? Because then we can’t see the damage!
At the margin, how many businesses will it kill. THe ones holding on by their fingernails financially.
Why don’t we give the congress critters a permanent vacation? Never reelect anyone! Ever!!
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MONEY: The Yuan as the world’s reserve currency
Thursday, May 21, 2009http://www.cnbc.com/id/30836189
Buy Yuan and Beware of Boys, Rogers Tells His Daughters
By: Dora Cheok, News Editor | 20 May 2009 | 04:05 AM ET
Say the name Jim Rogers, and these thoughts might
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“I own the Chinese renminbi. It’s not that easy to buy and sell the renminbi because it’s a blocked currency. But I own it and every chance I get to get some more renminbi, I do so.” Rogers says.
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Will the yuan become the next reserve currency for the world?
That would surely signal the end of the American Empire and the beginning of its financial collapse.
TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It)
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GOVERNACIDE: Government Health Care? Think VA or Medicare!
Thursday, May 21, 2009I suggest EVERYONE get active. Hillary tried to nationalize Healthcare; Obama is back to try again. I don’t know about you but I’ve seen the VA’s health care and Medicare. Canadians come to Buffalo for MRIs; it’s well documented that by the time a Canadian can get their “free” MRI, cancers have had time to metastasize and kill people. England has a booming “medical tourism” industry where the English go to India and the Far East for cheap medical care that they can’t get at home. Don’t forget that medical care is the classic economic service with an inelastic demand curve. (Demand isn’t very responsive to cost.) So, the only way that the government can control demand is with rationing. If you think that dealing with Insurance Companies is bad, try dealing with the Government. Sorry, the current system has problems, but imho they are caused by government at the State and Federal level. They have the FDA a captive of the drug companies, the AMA restrict who can “practice medicine”, and the Pharmacists have a monopoly on dispensing drug. Plus don’t forget the psuedo drug war. Sorry, but I need quality medical care for spouse. Remember, if Fritz had been in England, then he’d have been too old for dialyses. Rationing, like gas lines, will kill people. And, once “it” is started, like Social Security, Medicare, and the Medicare Drug Benefit, there will be no way to stop it. And, future generations will go broke paying for it. Argh!
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/tea_party_americans_can_stop_a.html
May 16, 2009
How to Stop a Healthcare Hijack
By J. Robert Smith
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Stop an arcane parliamentary maneuver – “reconciliation” – and the odds improve at stopping the Democrats march toward socialized medicine. But Republicans can’t do it; not alone, anyway. It’s up to the legions of Tea Partiers and average Americans to win the fight.
Reconciliation is aimed at dramatically restricting debate and banning filibuster on budget-related matters. It allows for a simple up or down vote. Senate Democrats are keeping it as an option if progress lags in recasting healthcare as a government-run enterprise. A good bet is that they’ll invoke it. Why?
Because a thorough public airing and extensive Senate debate will expose the Democrats’ plan for what it is: a demolishing of the doctor-patient relationship in favor of a politician-bureaucrat driven system; and a system all about rationing.
Democrats are quick to say that Republicans used reconciliation when they were the majority. That’s true, but it was used principally to get up or down votes on lowering taxes, not upending a huge portion of the nation’s economy.
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POLITICS: Press misses the “salt in the wound” at Notre Dame
Wednesday, May 20, 2009http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-obama-notredame
Obama takes a run at Notre Dame football
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Without getting into the crux of the controversy, I believe the author has misstated the upset. It was the “honorary degree” that sent everyone over the top. The Council of Bishops expressly prohibited “honoring”. That’s what sent everything into overdrive. And, his far “left” stance on abortion (i.e., infanticide). Well, Notre Dame did do one thing; it activated all the pro-lifers and firmly hung the “pro-abortion” label on President Obama. With Government Motors, the non-stimulating stimulus pork bil, and the huge 9T$ over 4 years, it would appears that reelection is far from a certainty. And, the House may turn over in 2010. Good work, Notre Dame. Too bad they had to sell their soul to do it.
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JOBSEARCH: Turkeys have to deal with their feelings!
Wednesday, May 20, 2009http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/15/time-makes-a-list-of-tech-failures-microsoft-checks-it-twice/
Time Makes A List Of Tech Failures, Microsoft Makes It Twice by Leena Rao on May 15, 2009
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Time Magazine recently published a list (completed by 24/7 Wall St.) of the “Top Ten Biggest Tech Failures Of The Past Decade.” Microsoft Vista, Microsoft Zune, Gateway, YouTube and the Segway all made the list.
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I was attracted to the picture.
In job search, the search is usually preceded by a job “loss”.
It feels like this picture.
Heck of a way to end a career.
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