This Needs to Be the Change in the Medical System

This would fix our health care issues. Change, fundamentally, how Doctors work with patients. Let the entire public be the doctor's patient. Force the patient to have more responsibility for their own health - we each pay more car insurance for bad driving. You can get good, cheap health care, at a super cheap price - as long as you are taking care of your body in a responsible manner. If you choose to wreck your body through eating habits, exercise habits, and whatever else it is that you do then the privilege of health care will be more expensive.

The reason this works - is that if we started being a simply healthier society we would eat less, hurt ourselves less, live better, work better, take care of our kids longer, and probably be doing things that are better for our minds as well. Additionally, one of those wonderful benefits of movement and exercise are the benefits in the brain - quicker, smarter, faster type of benefits.

Society would benefit. Individuals would benefit as well. So would businesses. Rich people. And poor people. The military would like it! Individuals benefit in that they are educated continually about health and looked after because of the system. Business would benefit in that they wouldn't have the responsibility of insurance, unless desired, their medicare taxes would be lower, but more importantly - their employees would be healthier, stronger, able to work better, and happier. Rich people benefit in that society has more healthy people, doctors will become more profitable investments, society would be more efficient, and those rich folks will have better employees - and thus - MORE MONEY! Poor people - health care, education, ...real health care...The military would love having a huge, healthy population of people to kill people in other countries. It is a strategically sound operation!

It benefits all of us much more if the system is an after thought - a commodity because of how good it takes care of us. If we let doctors focus on the cutting edge of medicine because of how healthy we are - we are going to push medicine so far, so fast in today's research and development world.

We are doing so well today because of the improved health of people. But the economics of the system are weighing down growth.

A long term plan that makes people pay for health insurance based upon their habits and measurable body changes. Government gives you are card and a set of rules - you want public health care - you act in the interest of the public. All the while - you as an individual are an amazingly healthy person! A patient level rating system based on data that is scored in a system. Doctors are rated based upon the quality of their patients.

A key here - we are talking about hurting those who currently are unhealthy and costly - because anyone can make themselves more healthy over the long term! As long as your health is improving your rates get better.

...I don't want to write anymore or edit...I have homework. :-)

A few old, interesting articles...

In scientific first, Einstein researchers correct decline in organ function associated with old age

So the next thing we do is learn how to make us stop running out of energy!

Zimbabwe: New Forms of "Money"

A coupon system based upon gas rations has arisen. And the general public has automatically assigned a standard value. New idea for a national currency system.


Internet: Last piece of fibre-optic jigsaw falls into place as cable links east Africa to grid

The Net grows a layer of wiring over the surface of its most recent capture. maybe it humans who have been evolved in order to transmit knowledge back to the central base? Maybe we are shot from a cannon far, far away for the purpose of growing a giant network of life and knowledge throughout the universe.

Social interactions alter gene expression

You can affect who you are going to become by changing who you are today.

Virus weaves itself into the DNA transferred from parents to babies

Another nuance of the most interesting strand of DNA that we are...

Seawater greenhouses to bring life to the desert

Someone's going to do it.


Had to clean out a folder of 100+ links to pick out these goodies and bookmark a few others for later following up.

I think I feel more confident in the United States now that we have dropped this monkey off of backs - this economy was whack. I feel a strong future. Much work to do - but a damn strong future!

Thought for the Day

But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest. - Buddha...

Just unbelievable

This is the type of knowledge I would love to discover some day...

Most scientists have believed that the instant a quantum object was measured it would "collapse" from being in all the locations it could be, to just one location like a classical object. Jordan proposed that it would be possible to weakly measure the particle continuously, partially collapsing the quantum state, and then "unmeasure" it, causing the particle to revert back to its original quantum form, before it collapsed.

EurekAlert.com

Our trust is in your hands...

Imagine if George W. Bush had the same education in the Constitution as Barrack H. Obama does? Imagine, instead of running businesses, George had been trained in the law in the same manner Obama was while in Congress? imagine, that Bush didn't need people to tell him how to screw the nation over utilizing the overpowering ability of manipulation of words, ignorance of precedence, and the ultra-powerful executive branch?

Barack will know the Constitution and the laws. H. will have a lot of power in his hands that was created by W. We are trusting the man with a lot, just like we trusted that other fellow.

You better work, cus we're coming after you! You better listen, because we are going to speak!

Another Bailout?

Why are there so many damn bailouts? Sigh...ode to getting votes!

So, if we are going to do another damn bailout and we are going to loan money to banks at 1%, why don't we do the same thing to consumers? Why not instead give a $700,000,000,000 package to each individual? Each individual in the country would get about $2,295.08. You could even give this amount of money out in the opposite direction of the tax base? This way, the poor people - who will spend it quickest most likely - will pump all of this money back into the economy from the low levels - buildings the coffers of the system many times on its way up. Imagine a poor family who makes $25,0o0 a year getting a check for $5,000? How do you think that would be spent?

And that $4,000,000,000,000 (thats trillion by the way - 12 zeros - who are we? Zimbabwe?) that we are loaning out from all the other departments of the Treasury - well, we could offer loans to people all the United States at super low interest rates! That would be a $13,114 loan per person in this country. Add that to the average check of $2,295 in cash, and suddenly there is a $15,409 windfall for each citizen in the United States of America. I wonder, how that money, will be spent? Think about the amount of that money, that you - the Federal Governement will make off of it? I learned in my Economics course that the mutiplying effect of money in the US Ecnomogy was about 3. That means, the $4.7 trillion in money that would be loaned out to the people of the United States would be actually turn into $14.21 trillion in money from the governments point of view. And how much of that money would you, Uncle Sam, take from a tax perspective? 10% (I keep this number lower because individual income tax wont be included). That's almost $1,500,000,000. That also happens to be about 31% of the original loan amount - imagine we applied the taxes collected from the loan money and applied it to the original loan, minus the costs of operation (probably 50% of the taxes collected)?

This is a huge amount of money. This volume of zeros, in the past, has always been associated with hyper-inflation. This amount of money injected into the economy would turn out to be nearly the size of the annual economy. In essence, we could double the rate of growth of the United States, over the course of a year.

Of course, the very fact that we are bailing anybody out is a screw-up, in my opinion. Those who have savings, those who have sacrificed are now bearing the risk because of inflation. Gold is still around $700 for an ounce. All time highs and it is holding...

I just think bailing out the coporation is part of the problem. We are worried about a consumer led recession. House pricing drops. Lack of demand. Something like this might change that dynamic...course...we could all be screwed either way. :-)

Why didn't Bush get Credit?

Everyone wants to proclaim that Barack Obama is going to bring the large, public works projects like The Manhattan Project or the Tennessee Valley Authority, back into vogue with a green twist. Some people proclaim it and some people denounce it.

Why didn't George Walker Bush get credit for his New Deal? Since 2001, the U.S. economy has been running on the back of the Federal Reserve and cheap money, as well a huge government investment in technology - much of which is moved through military research and 9/11 protection. Not to mention the trillion(s?) dollar war. All of this money has been put into the world as an investment from a giant sovereign fund.

What percentage of the GDP, over the last eight years, had fraudulent mortgages underwriting it? The Bush Doctrine included a New Deal for America that lasted about four years. And now, we are about to get another big "government" investment.

I wonder if a large influx of forceful investment dollars can jump start anyone to get beyond hurdles in a few industries to create some societal game changing technologies.