This reform is frustrating and upsetting to me. Also the amount of people so excited about this makes me think the media succeeded in highlighting the right parts of the bill without talking about the ramifications downstream. They took a great opportunity to make some real change but went with a partisan approach that will dig the hole deeper for the underlying issues. I don’t think this bill is a tenth of what its cracked up to be.
The insurance companies aren’t as out of control as they are being painted. The costs from hospitals and clinics are out of control as well.
While some changes in the bill are favorable. Preventing insurance companies from dropping coverage if you are ill, and children being able to be on parents plans until 26. (although the age 26 extension has huge side-effects)
A worthless experience to a clinic will still cost hundreds of dollars to the insurance companies.
I cant believe that they will now require you as a citizen to have buy coverage. Penalties if you don’t. Great timing on this one as unemployment rates are at highs.
Lifetime caps being banned = Good… that is until premiums continue to rise for companies with employees reaching and exceeding those caps. I believe a better solution is to team this one up with working on cutting costs in hospitals and providers, that could help to reduce the amount of people hitting these limits. Not all, but it would help.
Transparency in insurance company overhead is good.. I think it will wake up to the fact that the products are too expensive and there is less overhead than people think. The public needs to see this.
Ethan
Daily, Honesty, Struggles
health care reform, obama
1 week after receiving an incorrect order from Blinds.com the issue is still unresolved. I did my leg work up front. Sending all sorts of pictures of the incorrect blind and the order tag and build tags. Here we are 6 emails later an I am being asked about something that is on the label… By the same customer service representative.
A smart move would be for them to have just admitted fault, sent me a return label and maybe re-ordered the blind for me. Or at least a simple apology for the error. I have received nothing from blinds.com except for more questions and more questions.
If they’d look at my account they may realize that I have outfitted my entire house with blinds ordered through their website.
Blinds.com, you need to do something to redeem yourselves. And quickly…
Ethan
Daily, Feeling, Honesty, Struggles
Coming from a team that has done the same to others in the past few weeks, I can’t believe that somebody like Keith Brooking could be such a cry-baby. How many years have you been in the league? 11 years? Screaming at a coach? In the dome?
So what we scored another touchdown. Crazy things happen in this league. Turnovers can show up a plenty, as Romo showed us all. The Vikings were just trying to stamp their plane tickets to New Orleans to play the Saints.
Running up the score ends when you parents stop dropping you off at the game..
Ethan
Daily, Honesty, Life Journey
What a waste…My wife had an appt. with Dr. San..rs at 2:30pm today, which she wasnt visited until 3:30pm. She spent 7 minutes with her, and gave no opinion or help or guidance. I would assume that if she spends 7 minutes with each patient there would be no way she could be 1 hour behind schedule. We’ve wasted a $35 copay, our insurance company will have wasted their money on this appointment. What a sham this is. In addition to the tardiness, my wife left the appointment with more pain in her foot than she arrived due to the “testing” Dr. San..rs did on her foot.
my recommendation, do not see Dr. San..rs at the Park Nicollet St Louis Park Clinic.
Ethan
Honesty
Watching the Twins / Yankees game #2 Friday night I witnessed something that happens to Minnesota sports more often than normally possible. A fair ball was called foul, this ball would have put Joe Mauer on 2nd base. It bounded out of play for what would have been a ground rule double. A few singles later in the inning would have put the Twins on the board. Instead they left runners stranded after those singles.
The problem with this is the umpire was about 20 feet from the spot it landed, perfect view and he blew the call. This one should have been a prime example for instant replay because the ball bounded out of play so it was a dead ball and they could have put Mauer on 2nd. Clear cut…
Others are thinking the same thing, Nicholas Deleon at CrunchGear posted about this.. Prompting me to air my grievances as a long time Twins fan.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/10/12/its-time-for-the-mlb-to-adopt-instant-replay/
Ethan
Daily, Honesty
Lately I have found myself trying to figure out if I am en expert at anything. Not just good or talented at something, but an expert.
With projects around the house, playing various sports, programming, friendships, and the list goes on. I know I am talented and very capable. But I don’t feel like I am an expert at anything.
It makes me wonder how many of us actually are experts at something. Last fall I read a great book called Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. He mentions in the book that it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at something, sports, music, law, finance. That is almost 5 years of your life working from 9-to-5 at something with no breaks.
I do 2 things that much, work and sleep. But I am not even an expert with those subjects. At work I do so many different things that I cant have the time or focus to become and expert at one of them.
One thing I am probably closest to becoming an expert is that I talk like I am an expert at everything.
“Jack of all trades, master of none”
I dont want to be that guy anymore. I want to become a master at something, an expert in that field.
Here’s the problem… I dont know what it will be…
Ethan
Feeling, Honesty, Struggles
I need you
I miss you
The end
Ethan
Daily, Feeling, Honesty
golf
I can’t figure out why people spend their time trying to take pictures of the stage/artists at concerts. Especially with Point & Shoot cameras. You overpay to see live performances and then you spend the whole time fixated on your camera and why you can’t get a good shot!
Why not focus on the present? The only purpose the blurry pics will serve is to remind you of the concert at which you were distracted.
Also you distract those within 3 rows behind you.
Ethan
Daily, Honesty, Music
cameras, chris tomlin, concerts, why
LYRICS:
Someone falls to pieces
Sleeping all alone
Someone kills the pain
Spinning in the silence
To finally drifts away
Someone gets excited
In a chapel yard
And catches a bouquet
Another lays a dozen
White roses on a grave
Yeahhh…
And to be yourself is all that you can do
Heyyyy…
To be yourself is all that you can do
Someone finds salvation in everyone
Another only pain
Someone tries to hide himself
Down inside himself he prays
Someone swears his true love
Until the end of time
Another runs away
Separate or united
Healthy or insane
And to be yourself is all that you can do(all that you can do)
Yeahhh…
To be yourself is all that you can do(all that you can do)
To be yourself is all that you can do(all that you can do)
Heyyyy…
Be yourself is all that you can do
Even when you’ve paid enough
Been pulled apart or been held up
Every single memory of the good or bad
Faces of love
Don’t lose any sleep tonight
I’m sure everything will end up alright
You may win or lose
But to be yourself is all that you can do
Yeahhh…
To be yourself is all that you can do
Ohhhh…
To be yourself is all that you can do(all that you can do)
Heeey…
To be yourself is all that you can do(all that you can do)
To be yourself is all that you can–
Be yourself is all that you can–
Be yourself is all that you can do
Ethan
Honesty
"You hit them with that, they be like, 'This mutha—-a is kinda crazy but he keeps on talking about Jesus! He keeps on talking about the Lord!' "
(Bizzy Bones recalled about speaking in tongues on KPFT-FM)
Cool story about Bizzy Bone and his walking days of giving away all of his money and living homeless for 7 months. And how like many stories of meeting Jesus, flips your life upside down in ways people dont understand…
Not even his mother…
Ethan
Honesty, Music
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