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Aug. 9th, 2013 09:55 amNews
My grandmother, Mary Mackovic, died on Tuesday. The funeral will be Monday. She was 91, and came down with acute leukemia a few weeks ago.
Links, some with comments
A) One of the reasons I am in favor of "Obamacare" is that I am sick and tired of seeing people have to pass the hat to raise money for treatments.
B) On the subject of health care, one of the reasons American health care is expensive is plain-ole price gouging. See this article. The tl;dr version: man needs hip replacement. List price for the artificial joint in the US is $13,000, plus $65,000 in hospital charges. He flies to Belgium, goes to a private for-profit hospital, and pays in total $13,660, including air fare to Brussels! The artificial joint was made in Warsaw, Indiana, and in Belgium costs $3,000. BTW, that price is regulated by the government.
C) In lighter news, one of the reasons the Concorde jet is no longer flying is cost. Another is safety. As this article points out, the plan in the event of cabin pressure failure was to let the passengers pass out.
My grandmother, Mary Mackovic, died on Tuesday. The funeral will be Monday. She was 91, and came down with acute leukemia a few weeks ago.
Links, some with comments
A) One of the reasons I am in favor of "Obamacare" is that I am sick and tired of seeing people have to pass the hat to raise money for treatments.
B) On the subject of health care, one of the reasons American health care is expensive is plain-ole price gouging. See this article. The tl;dr version: man needs hip replacement. List price for the artificial joint in the US is $13,000, plus $65,000 in hospital charges. He flies to Belgium, goes to a private for-profit hospital, and pays in total $13,660, including air fare to Brussels! The artificial joint was made in Warsaw, Indiana, and in Belgium costs $3,000. BTW, that price is regulated by the government.
C) In lighter news, one of the reasons the Concorde jet is no longer flying is cost. Another is safety. As this article points out, the plan in the event of cabin pressure failure was to let the passengers pass out.
