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What's circus world?
I don't remember Circus World, but a couple years ago I read something online about it and that it had become Boardwalk & Baseball. Now, I know this closed down in 1990, but I could swear as a child of the '90's, the sign for the park remained standing for quite some time. I have very vague memories of hearing about this place and seeing a particular sign as a kid, maybe I'm crazy... who knows!
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We went there too in either 81 or 83. I don't remember much other than having a cartoon drawing of myself done and I think we rode an elephant.
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They always have stuff on there about defunct theme parks. I think it was cool that Circus World was Ringling's Winter Home.
circuses scare me. except Cirque.
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I remember Circus World!!
Only cause I have pics of me when I was little with my face painted, and I remember that my Mom refused to go on the ferris wheel with me and Dad, lol.
After it was Circus World, it became Baseball and Boardwalk, which was still kinda cool, but not as cool as CW, or WDW, lol.
I miss it though.
It's a huge parking lot now if I remember correctly, how sad.
My family went there once in 1977 and I have photos of all my boys with clown faces to prove it. Here is a photo of the Circus World tent.
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Yes I remember Circus World! That's the first time I heard the song Give Em That Old Razzle Dazzle.....in some type of show.....wow that really takes me back.
I remember Circus World. I didn't go there, just gazed at from the back of my parent's station wagon while on I-4.
My wife was there as a kid, got her faced painted as clown. There's a picture somewhere.

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By Robert T. Nelson
In an industry where Anheuser-Busch annually spends an estimated $1 billion trying to persuade people to drink its beers, the owners of the Mac & Jack's Brewery try to lie low. Though the two men eventually relent, they certainly don't act like the co-authors of Mac & Jack's African Amber, one of the hottest beers in the crowded Northwest specialty-beer market. They spend virtually no money on marketing. And their brewery, in a former transmission shop in a low-slung business park in Redmond, looks to be the next-to-the-last place you'd brew a fine beer--the last place being Schropp's garage, which is where Mac & Jack's got its start and operated until 1997. In an industry crowded with too much product and way too many companies, Mac & Jack's African Amber is one of two relatively new, upstart beers to have elbowed their way into pubs and onto supermarket shelves. The other is Fat Tire, a lighter amber beer from the New Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins, Colo. During their rise to prominence in the Northwest, the two companies have taken decidedly different approaches to attract notice. New Belgium is prone to splashy entrances complete with neon signs featuring Fat Tire's distinctive 1950s-era bicycle and sponsorship of the Tour de Fat bike races. Rankin and Schropp come in the back door. When they supplanted Redhook on tap at the fashionable Cascadia Restaurant on First Avenue in downtown Seattle, they did it by playing on the owner's sympathy. "We're small, give us a chance," they pleaded. "That's a very powerful sell," said Paul Shipman, Redhook Ale Brewery's founder and chief executive. "I built my business that way." What separates Redhook from Mac & Jack's these days, other than size, is profitability. Though it remains the largest microbrewery in the country, Redhook's core business lost nearly $2 million last year selling 216,000 barrels of beer nationwide. Working 24 hours a day at its nine-employee brewery, Mac & Jack's this year will eke out 24,000 barrels for sale in Washington and parts of Oregon and Idaho. Rankin and Schropp won't say how much they made selling beer last year, but they say profit estimates of $100,000 are in the ballpark. The owners are having what Shipman calls "their day in the sun"--good times that, if not handled properly, could result in a costly expansion and the company's demise if supply outpaces demand. "They're in a dangerous period," said Shipman. "They're in the charm phase. The charm phase is when people have a genuine sense of discovery when they drink one of your beers, and before you get a lot of media recognition. "Once the media descends, the hop heads move on. In Seattle, when you get to be too hot, people don't like it. They want to get on to the next thing." Shipman knows of what he speaks. Founded in 1981, Redhook had a long day in the sun that began to fade in 1994 when a quarter of the company was sold to Anheuser-Busch to finance expansion. The sale gave Redhook access to a nationwide distribution network, but at a price. Among beer aficionados, Shipman had joined forces with the devil. A year later, Redhook went public, generating money to build breweries and pubs in Woodinville and Portsmouth, N.H. Unfortunately for investors, none of that proved profitable. While the company's two breweries are capable of producing 350,000 barrels annually, and could easily expand to 500,000, that is twice as much beer as Redhook can sell. Having once traded at $35 a share, Redhook's stock is now hovering around $1.50. "A year ago, it was much more embarrassing," said Shipman. "But since the dot-coms (fallout), I feel much more comfortable about where we are. I envision break-even and even profitability. But I'm not going to attach any dates to that."
Losing money is common, despite a generous excise-tax break that benefits small breweries in Washington. Three years ago, it was widely predicted there would be a shakeout, and that many Northwest brewers would close. A few did, but most have hung on and learned to operate more efficiently.
"The fact is, when you leave your region, there's a steep drop-off in what you sell. In the industry as a whole, there's been a necessary realization that you need to know how to run an efficient business." Complicating matters is the fact small brewers aren't well-organized and have little economic or political clout. Two years ago, when the Legislature lowered the blood-alcohol level that defines intoxication to 0.08 percent, the law came as a surprise to microbrewers, who have since formed the Washington State Brewers Guild, a trade association. One of the challenges facing small brewers is that unless a beer is wildly popular, selling it in kegs is what Shipman calls a public service and labor of love. The potential for big profit is in bottled beer, but that requires capital and confidence that consumption will grow to support the investment and higher distribution costs. Hale's Ales took the leap three years ago, so far with limited success. Mac & Jack's is at the point where the owners must begin deciding whether to grow or stay put. At Diamond Knot Brewery in Mukilteo, widely regarded as producing some of the best, most innovative beers in the region, the owners long ago decided to keep their day jobs at Boeing and limit annual production to about 600 barrels (18,600 gallons) sold through the company's brew pub and at taverns between Snohomish and Tacoma. "It was never our goal to be a Redhook or a Mac & Jack's," said Brian Sollenberger, co-owner of Diamond Knot. "I like brewing beer, don't get me wrong. But I've got 12 years at Boeing (as an engineer). I have health care and a retirement. That's a lot to walk away from. We've always wanted to make very unique and cult-following beers, understanding we'd be a small cult." Shipman said the only thing separating Mac & Jack's from Diamond Knot is personal, total commitment by the owners. "The difference is that Mac & Jack jumped off a cliff," said Shipman. "They gave up their jobs and had to succeed. The Diamond Knot guys kept their day jobs. If you reversed the situations, Diamond Knot would be the hot new beer and you might have heard of Mac & Jack's." Washington licenses more than 120 companies to sell beer in this state. Of those, about 80 are small, local breweries fighting over the 10 percent of the market not taken by imports and large domestic brewers such as Anheuser-Busch. Shipman calls the battle for pub handles nothing short of "war." Hale's Foote said he's been in sales a long time but has never seen competition as fierce as in the beer business. "People don't have any idea," he said. "There obviously are more brewers than customers out there to support them. It's a love affair. You make a good beer and assume everyone will want to buy it." Microbrewers will tell you it was their friends who first encouraged them to turn their hobby into a business. Most have since concluded their friends simply wanted to continue having access to good beer, free. Making a unique, good-tasting beer the first time is hard enough. Making the same beer consistently, and in large quantities, is a far greater challenge. Once that's been accomplished, persuading restaurant and bar owners to replace an existing beer tap with a new brew is the key to whether a beer's popularity widens beyond a small circle of admirers. Diamond Knot's recognition came when a few industry magazines touted its beers. For Rankin and Schropp, the breakthrough came late in 1994 when the owner of the Woodland Park Pub asked them to produce a house beer for his bar. They tinkered with their Amber Ale recipe, renaming it Mac & Jack's African Amber. Today, even they can't explain why it has become the third-most-popular craft beer brewed in the state--topped only by Redhook and Pyramid Breweries, according to statistics of the state Liquor Control Board. "Mac & Jack's makes a fine product, but most breweries make fine beer," said Foote. "For some reason, it's cool to have their beer in your hand. There isn't a brewer who doesn't want to be in that position, to be the hot product. We believe it's the name. Mac & Jack's sounds cool. It's the only thing we can think of that explains their success. Same with Fat Tire." Foote's company is one that Mac & Jack's shot past on its way to popularity. Though Hale's was one of the region's first microbreweries and developed its own amber and Hefeweizen ales, the company resisted bottling and didn't broaden its market. Pyramid in Seattle and Widmer Brothers in Oregon both satisfied the Northwest's taste for Hefeweizen. Alaskan was the popular amber beer before Fat Tire and Mac & Jack's came along. Hale's remains the most popular beer at Linda's Tavern on Capitol Hill, where manager Rob Astle calls its pale ale "an amazing-tasting, perfect drinking beer." But beyond the front door of Linda's, Hale's has stayed small, operating a brew pub and selling 20,000 barrels annually--70 percent of it in the Seattle area. Six years ago, Foote was hired away from Nalley's Fine Foods of Tacoma to improve Hale's fortunes. One of the first things he did was to persuade founder Mike Hale to bottle his beers. Today, one of the company's biggest challenges is to make sure its beer gets distributed to every Safeway store in the region so that Hale's can qualify to appear in Safeway's advertising. Similarly at Pyramid, Gary McGrath, a former Pepsi and Miller beer salesman, was brought in to boost sales at a brewery that produced 115,000 barrels last year but made just $33,000--the first reported profit in four years. "There's certainly still some romance in brewing craft beers," said McGrath. "We continue to have some very passionate brewers, but we needed a balance. To survive, you've got to care about both--the beer and the business." Robert T. 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Prague - The new Czech government vows to be different from its predecessors, but like them it faces the old dilemma of how to use the profit generated by the state-controlled giant CEZ energy utility, Martin Zverina writes in Lidove noviny (LN) today.
In the past, many politicians came up with numerous fabulous promises and plans how to use CEZ´s profit. Finally the state always spent the money. It is not known on what, but this is actually not important, Zverina writes.
Should CEZ be "milked" for the benefit of voters, or should the state - as a responsible manager - keep a part of CEZ´s profit as a reserve, for the extension of the Temelin nuclear power plant, for example? Zverina asks.
A correct answer to this question does not exist. A responsible manager would have never backed CEZ´s expansion to Albania. On the other hand, regular dissolving of CEZ´s profits in the state budget is not a better solution, Zverina writes.
Elsewhere in Lidove noviny (LN), Petr Kambersky describes the post-1989 interior minister Richard Sacher, who died this week, as a personality full of contradictions.
Sacher officially dissolved the infamous communist secret police StB and signed an agreement with KGB head Vladimir Kruychkov in Moscow, Kambersky says.
Sacher was immensely trusted by Vaclav Havel, the then powerful president. Any time Havel needed to screen someone´s past, Sacher provided the relevant StB file for him to study, Kambersky says.
This would be unthinkable now, and it illustrates the close relations between Havel and Sacher, he continues.
However, within his non-standard methods, Sacher had the StB files concerning key persons "put aside," which later caused problems. As a result, it is still not known for sure whether Sacher himself had been an StB agent before 1989, Kambersky writes.
Sacher used to say that a battle had been fought for the StB archive from the beginning. This battle still continues now, 25 years after the fall of communism, Kambersky adds.
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"I always dreamed of having a place of my own – an escape," says Mr RJ Rogenski, speaking to MR PORTER at his home in upstate New York on the afternoon of his 32nd birthday. A successful start to his modelling career as the face of DKNY and Michael Kors gave him the opportunity to pursue this dream, allowing him to buy this house – and the 10 acres of land that surround it – while still in his early twenties, barely three years after leaving his hometown of Youngstown, Ohio on a Greyhound bus bound for New York City with nothing but $300 in his pocket.
It's only after almost a decade of summers spent redecorating and rebuilding this 1970 farmhouse that Mr Rogenski has really begun to refer to it as a home. The results reveal a taste for minimalism (he makes reference to Mr John Pawson's book, A Visual Inventory, and to the work of Mr Tadao Ando when discussing his influences), and a keen understanding of architectural context, of which the newly installed windows are perhaps the best example. The huge panes of glass on either side of the building don't just allow you to see into the house – from a distance, you can see straight through it. "The idea was to open up every room and let light in," he explains. And the windows double as artworks, too. "We don't have much hanging on the walls here, but we don't need it. Every room has a different view; every view changes with the time of day and the shifting of the seasons. It's all the art we need."


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More stuff for the Brisbane people among us. http://barcamp.org/BarCampBrisbane If people want me to stop putting these things on the mailing list, tell me. I'm getting all of them straight from the general@... mailing list (this email was forwarded to that list by someone else, btw). ================================================= Hello Fellow Queenslanders! I'm writing to you because I think you might be interested in the concept of BarCamp: an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. Organisation for a BarCamp includes finding a few sponsors who will provide a venue, Internet access, food and drink. Barcamps are sometimes 2 days events so most people bring a sleeping bag and stay overnight, the venue provider should be able to cater for this if we decide on this format. We've started the organisation for BarCampBrisbane, there is similar work going on BarCampMelbourne, BarCampCanberra & BarCampSydney. The event will obviously take place somewhere in Brisbane and we will hopefully synchronise our event with one of the other states and hook up with them in some way during the weekend. We welcome any questions you might have about this, and encourage you to forward this email to anyone you feel might be interested. For further information, please see the BarCamp wiki pages: http://barcamp.org/http://barcamp.org/BarCampAustraliahttp://barcamp.org/BarCampBrisbane We also now have our own site athttp://barcampbrisbane.organd a mailing list athttp://groups.google.com/group/barcampbrisbaneso it's easy to get involved. Kind regards, Steve Dalton Bar Camp Brisbane Unorganiserhttp://barcampbrisbane.org =================================================== -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic -- email@example.com mailing list
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A couple of pictures of two roses in the back bed. Last year these were small but very happy, healthy green and bloomy. They were actually greener a few weeks ago then they are now. I've noticed especially in the past two weeks that the leaves on most of one one plant and part of another (they're the same and unnamed) have suddenly turned a rather icky yellowish color. I've never seen this on my roses before. I know what over watering looks like out there and this isn't it. I would greatly appreciate any thoughts on the matter. Thank you.
By the by both of these guys have and have had RMV forever. I trim off the really affected parts and they normally shine on despite that fact. Kate |
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Hi, Kate. Is the red leaf margin normal on this variety? Technically, "chlorosis" just means "yellowing," so, yes, they definitely have chlorosis :) Yellowing between greener veins starting on the new growth is iron deficiency. I presume the leaves did not suddenly turn pale but grew out pale over the past two weeks. The newest leaves are normally the most chlorotic. In picture #2 it looks like one cane has yellow foliage and another does not. In this case the cane might be damaged. There is iron in the soil but it is unavailable because of high pH, or possibly just because the soil is cold and wet. Check pH, add sulfur if needed, and use an iron product for a short-term fix. |
- Posted by katefisher Z7_NorthernCA (My Page) on Tue, May 12, 09 at 14:29
Hi Michael. Yes, the leaves on these roses do have that red margin. I'm sorry I should have noted it. Gotcha on the terminology. I learned something:) You are most correct about how the leaves turned slowly. It took me a little to notice in fact. I'll look for damage on the canes as well and if necessary do some trimming. So checking the pH. I have not done this before but presume I can maybe get some kind of testing tool at the hardware store. Not 100% certain what the pH should be in fact. I need to do more investigating apparently. Thank you so much for your input. Very appreciated. Kate |
- Posted by mad_gallica Z5 Eastern NY (My Page) on Tue, May 12, 09 at 14:31
I'd start with looking for cane damage. The second one in particular looks like classic winter damage near the base of the cane. |
Since Kate knows how to prune, I wouldn't think the whole plant in picture 1 is sitting on damaged stubs, but perhaps the one cane in picture 2 is. It seems to have blind growth, which is another indicator. I use the inexpensive Rapi-Test meter to check pH, but if you don't have a way, you could just slop some iron on the first plant. If the problem recurs, treat the soil with sulfur, which will slowly lower the pH. |
In the long run, for us, treating the soil with sulfur has been the most durable solution to this problem. Jeri |
- Posted by katefisher Z7_NorthernCA (My Page) on Tue, May 12, 09 at 15:37
Thank you all very much. When I get home I will look more carefully at both plants for physical damage to the canes. Living up here in a rather small town our little hardware store has finite supplies of, well, everything. So my second task will be to check with them and see if they have iron, sulfur or the pH tester available and go from there. Kate |
Definitely look at the canes first because it appears that there is very healthy foliage and distressed foliage on the same plant but on different canes. The weak cane is probably damaged but there could be damage at the graft assuming it is a grafted rose. You might also look at the healthy cane for symptoms like yellowing which would indicate that the weaker cane may be dying from something that will eventually get the stronger cane in which case there is another problem probably at the root level. |
- Posted by katefisher Z7_NorthernCA (My Page) on Tue, May 12, 09 at 16:44
Thanks Henry. Well miraculously when I called my hardware store they had precisely one pH tester in stock and Michael it is the Rapi-Test so I'm going to get that this evening. That will be nice to have around I'm sure and as you and Jeri pointed out it will help identify the issue. I'll let you know what I discover. Kate |
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Subject: Starbucks to install cargo security devices
The Associated Press, Mar. 15, 2006
Starbucks Corp. announced Wednesday it will install high-tech sensors to
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As heard on TV... "Jersey Shore"
By Allison Stewart
Welcome to "As heard on TV," a feature where we at Click Track recap the music played on various TV shows. Our first choice was a no-brainer...
So, it's the morning after the latest episode of the MTV reality show "Jersey Shore," otherwise known as The Awesomest Show In The History Of The Entire World.
By this point you may be going through withdrawal, and wouldn't mind reliving the episode's many pathos-and-vomit-ridden moments through song. Or maybe you just want to know what tracks were played last night so you can avoid them for all eternity. Either way, we're here to help.
Your musical guide to last night's episode after the jump.
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Artist: Two Guns
Song: "Heavyheads"
Played During: The scene when Ronnie and the other guy who looks like Ronnie discuss a fight between Ronnie and Sammi.
Artist: Lights Resolve
Song: "Long Way to Go"
Played During: The scene where Ronnie and Sammi make up after arguing over Sammi's unusually large big toe, which Ronnie says makes her look like Fred Flintstone. This is true, but Ronnie really shouldn't have pointed it out. "I would suck your big toe," he says by way of apology.
Artist: Anonymous purveyor of really bad house music
Song: Really bad house music
Playing During: The scene where the housemates go to the club Karma, where everyone loves bad house music, because it's still 1998. Surely, Karma is the worst place in the entire world.
Artist: Mink
Song: "Look Into Each Other"
Played During: The scene in which Ronnie and Sammi make up after another fight, this time about something else. It's a long story.
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That was a great episode, even though it had terrible music as usual. I wish we'd actually seen the big toe. Nice recap, though.
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great episode. crappy music except for the mink song and the lights resolve song
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If you are in Landmannalaugar (Iceland) you should definitely climb Blahnukur mountain to watch the sunset or sunrise. It is a steep climb and it is often very windy up there, but the views into the Fjallabak area are amazing and if you are lucky you are blessed with wonderful warm light that make the colours of the rhyolite mountains even more intense.
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BROWNSBURG, Ind. (AP) — A central Indiana woman who promised to donate one of her kidneys to a man she barely knew has married him three years after his successful transplant surgery.
Chelsea Clair and Kyle Froelich met at a 2009 car show when he was 19 and she was 22. Clair learned that day that Froelich had a serious kidney disease — and she told him then and there she would give him one of hers.
She underwent the necessary tests and ended up being a near perfect match. Three years ago, she donated one of her kidneys to Froelich.
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Saibaba is believed to have first seen at the village of Shirdi when he was about sixteen years old. He took up residence in a Khandoba temple, where a villager (Mahalsapathi) at worship first called him Sai ("saint"). Bearing an extremely simple and ascetic life, Sai Baba lived in the village as a mendicant monk. His inherent charisma soon began attracting followers. He has been attributed numerous miracles which still live expanding the list of his devotees. Today Saibaba temples are all across India and even beyond. Such is the devotional strength of the place that even a casual visitor cannot remain unaffected by the faith and conviction of the devotees on Saibaba. Bereft of any religious narrowness, Saibaba was essentially an Indian Guru, a Fakir who was regarded by both Hindu and Muslim communities. He worshipped both at temples and mosques and encouraged tolerance between both the faiths. His life and teachings are wonderful semblance of both faiths. His philosophy ingrained 'Shraddha' meaning faith and 'Saburi' meaning compassion. According to him Shraddha and Saburi were the supreme attributes to reach the state of godliness. Abode of the charismatic Shri Saibaba, Shirdi is the mystical town fragrant with the devotional intensity that sees devotees from across the world thronging to this small hamlet. Highly placed on the world map of spirituality, Shirdi is located in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra and close to the holy city of Nasik. Shirdi Sai Mandir Kalka is located in Kalka Location: District: Panchkula, State: Haryana Climate: Hot Climate Temperature: Max - 43 C, Min - 6 C Languages: Haryanvi, Hindi and English Best Time to Visit: October to March (Winters) Special Day: Every Thursday Nearest Railawy Station: Kalka Nearest Airport: Chandigarh (30 kms) STD Code: 01733
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In bringing up Frist's character, my point is that I think he has shown himself to be disingenous, which I belive hurts his credibility.
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In bringing up Frist's character, my point is that I think he has shown himself to be disingenous, which I belive hurts his credibility.
Playball, it's interesting that you bring up publication of price lists, because that's exactly what the State (also the state, in the "statist" sense) of Maryland does, and has done for the past three decades. The government there publishes a list of what every procedure costs, and so there's no cost shifting. Insurers have to compete on metrics other than cost of care.*
That approach eliminates the captive-consumer scenario. Where you get treatment doesn't matter because the treatment you get costs the same as it would anywhere else. You don't have to worry about whether your appendix removal will cost $1,500 or $15,000 (those are real cost spreads, by the way).
It doesn't directly do away with the information asymmetry, because as a consumer I'm still going to do what the doctor says I need regardless of whether the price is on a state-published list or a rate the hospital group negotiated with my insurer half a decade before. But helping to level that asymmetry is a place where insurers can compete, since they can't compete on cost of care. (Other areas include speed of service and assistance with preventative measures.)
Is that enough of a free market? I ask in seriousness, not facetiously.
As an aside, it occurred to me that one of the outcomes of nationally (or state-by-state) published price lists is that private individuals would be able to do their own risk assessments, either themselves or with the help of a new free market of independent actuarial consultants, in order to decide how much insurance they need to buy. Yes, I'm speculating a bit wildly, but why wouldn't such a thing be possible? There are lots of tax preparers helping people (and employing people) to cope with an essentially fixed government cost system.
*Despite this, I've yet to hear of the sort of drastic health care rationing and massive human suffering and death panels that we've heard over and over simply must result from such price-control socialism. Of course, we've also yet to hear of them in Japan or France, which do the same thing on a national scale, but those are other countries and so far as I've been able to tell the experiences of other countries just aren't relevant to the debate here.
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I quite agree with some of your suggestions, particularly those that relate to people needing to take responsibility for their lifestyle choices. I wouldn't be upset to see standard co-pays that are then modified by those choices.
For instance, let's start with a co-pay equal to your BMI (or perhaps a better measure could be found), with a multiplier of 2 for smoking and an addition of .1 for every alcoholic beverage over 2 that you consume in a given day. Coverage percentages could also be modified (e.g., you don't get 100% coverage for your lung cancer if you are a 4-pack per day smoker, maybe more like 20%)
The problem is that most of these behaviors are self-reported, and I imagine that we'd see smoking rates approximate zero even as cigarette sales kept steady...
Without getting into too much detail, I wonder how 30+ other countries are able to provide health care for all of their citizens while simultaneously achieving better public health outcomes and spending far less per person (sometimes less than half of what we pay).
I'm not religious about the single payer concept. But I am religious about spending less for better outcomes (i.e., fiscally conservative).
Perhaps we should simply pull the Japanese or Italian models off the shelf and implement one of 'em? Stop the endless debate and use a system that has proven itself to be superior and cheaper than our own?
I agree about the lack of options and information symmetry, so why isn't health care reform about increasing these, rather than reducing options (as single payer and I believe the public option would ultimately deliver)?
There are great stories of what mini-clinics, such as those in Walgreens or Walmart have been able to do to health care costs by simply publishing a price list for standard services. Granted, this might not scale well today to complex surgery, but there is still much more room to expand the concept of publishing prices (and also outcome histories) before considering non-market solutions.
Likewise, maybe we need less regulation to deliver more choice and information. As an example, we could get rid of the requirement in many states to obtain a certificate of need (from a state board) before opening a new hospital with beds. (The state cert boards basically exist to protect local hospital monopolies). We'd certainly have more option is this were the case.
Ultimately, I think there are many more and better market solutions to driving down HC costs than just simply expanding the role of government and taxing to transfer wealth for the good-feeling reason of increasing coverage, as the 5 current plans all use as their primary approach.
I wish these market-oriented ideas were getting equal consideration with the statist approaches. While slightly different than other markets in food or cars, I still think HC is still similar enough that increasing the voice of the consumer would reduce overall costs.
I'd say that the hybrid single-payer/multiple provider would probably combine the dysfunction of both systems, rather than the best of both systems. But, I'll start with the positive: such a plan would result in the largest possible risk pool.
But, ask yourself, what's the value of a great risk pool if there is no incentive for anyone to reduce their individual risk (nor extra cost for increased risk)? Pooling risk may INCREASE systemic risk.
To me, this is one of the great flaws of the current plans: virtually no difference in plan premiums between a trim person and an obese person with a carton-a-day smoking habit. (I think the current plans suggest legally no greater than a 2:1 ratio between plan premiums for a healthy 20-something and an obese 60 yr old.) In this case, socializing risk really means asking the fit to subsidize the fat. (Even in a large risk pool you COULD have different premiums, but I've yet to hear of such a plan.)
Another positive of your approach could be great competition among delivery networks. Something else would have to change, though, as in the US, delivery is a local/regional business, and the competition you seek is likely to still be restricted to the same local names and in many cases local oligopolies. Would west coast Kaiser Permanente realistically compete for my business here in Virginia? Ultimately, you could create a few national players, but under single-payer, the competitive landscape looks the same as the competitive landscape in passenger rail in the UK - a few semi-monopoly companies selling rides on the same tracks, with only the departure time to differentiate, and all with lousy service.
(To even consider increasing the competition in delivery, you simply must allow people to buy plans across state lines, which is the exact opposite of single payer.)
I have a few other top-level objections:
-you'd be trying to impose homogenous payment/treatment rules, over a heterogeneous population. Is there really one universal treatment regimen (and thus 1 universal payment plan) for, say breast cancer, or a single lifetime benefit plan for a child diabetic?
-you're building a system to reduce admin costs, not improve outcomes, increase access, or lower overall national HC costs. This may seem like a fine point - don't total treatment costs go down with the elimination of admin expenses, but will the changes cost more to implement than the savings?
There has got to be greater reward (or greater rationale) for health care reform than just a savings in administrative costs. The reality is that admin costs are a tiny fraction of the overall HC pie.
For admin costs in private vs gov't efforts, here's two ideas to note:
-per Greg Mankiw, admin costs per person are roughly the same (~$500/pp) between gov't and private insurance, but older folks demand more treatment, so Medicare's overhead as a % of total spending is artificially reduced. In other words, moving to single payer wouldn't create any savings. (Never mind the fact that in government or industry savings due to synergies from scale are often illusive.)
-the studies with the numbers that are most reliable say that when you add fraud (up to 1/3rd of all medicare costs by some estimates) to gov't overhead, industry is ultimately much, much more efficient than gov't. Medicare ostensibly keep overhead low by paying most claims without any review! (hat tip to Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute (I think) for that one.)
So, if you agree with Mankiw, admin costs are $500/person. What should they be under a perfect system? $400pp? That'd be great, saving $27B/yr (300 mil people x $100 x 90% coverage) but hardly the reason for the political maelstrom that we have right now, given the >$1 trillion annual health care bill.
Finally, what's the problem if 10% of health care costs goes to profit? For one thing, the health care system takes a risk that I think it should be compensated for (for example, building a new wing on a hospital, or buying an advanced piece of equipment), but more importantly, I really like the fact that my Doctor is incented by profit to treat me.
(Also, 10% doesn't profit margin doesn't seem like gouging.)
I really am shocked that serious people think profitable medicine is immoral. If not for a profit motive, why wouldn't a doctor or nurse take a different job in a different industry? If not for profit, why would we have advances in medical technology? Sure, I understand the p.o.v. that it is in society's best interest to have healthy citizens and adequate care, but it is also in society's best interest that we have ample food and water, and yet we don't mind profit-minded farmers and grocery stores, nor public water works that generate profits to pay for upkeep or expansion.
Ultimately, there is one player that can beat down health care costs that hasn't really been released yet - the American consumer. I'd go in this direction rather than single-payer
Playball, I think many believe (as I do) that markets are great at allocating capital and resources when there are options and information symmetry—neither of which is true of health care.
When I'm sick, I need care, period, and right now. When my child is ill, I will pay anything I must (even more than I can afford) to make them better as quickly as possible. It's not like buying consumer electronics or a car, where I can pick among a lot of options at my leisure or even decide not to buy at all. We're all, in effect, captive consumers. We can't pick and choose when the situation is critical. I'm not about to negotiate with a hospital, or ask to be transferred to a cheaper one, when my appendix has burst or my child has been multiply lacerated and knocked unconscious in a car accident.
Furthermore, when I'm sick, I have no way to know if what the doctor tells me I need is reasonable or not. If he or she says I need $10 in antibiotics, then I take it. If I'm told I need $30,000 in CAT-guided needle surgery, then I do it, even if what I really needed was $10 in antibiotics. (And triply so for my loved ones.) I have no real way to know when a doctor is right, half-right, playing CYA, or just plain out of their skull. When I'm shopping for consumer goods, I can compare features and price and reader reviews and my own experience with said goods. With my health? For all I know, that recurrent sneeze and icky feeling is a new virulent airborne pandemic form of H1N1... or just a stupid cold.
So while government may not be great at allocating capital (which is also debatable, but I'll grant it for the current conversation) it's little surprise that many people figure it can't do much worse than would private markets, because as a nominally not-for-profit outfit, it has less incentive to use audience captivity and information asymmetry to extract higher-than-necessary prices. And even if it does, voters can bring in new people to undo that behavior.
That's my perception of the reasoning, anyway. I could simply be wrong, though. After all, there's a lot of information asymmetry in the health care debate, too.
What do you make of a single payer but multiple provider paradigm?
To me it pairs the best of both worlds:
* Market competition among health care providers to deliver the best outcomes at the lowest costs.
* The largest possible pool of "insured" to spread the risk.
You ask about "how resources will otherwise be allocated more efficiently". The current system has ~30% of every helath care dollar going to administrative costs. Roughly another 10% of every health care dollar goes to profits rather than health care. The result is a mediocre public health outcome at the highest price anywhere in the world.
Medicare, on the other hand, runs about 1/10th of the administrative costs and is non-profit, making it much more efficient. Universal Medicare -- paid for by increasing the existing Medicare payroll tax -- could provide a health care floor under ALL citizens, which would almost certainly increase public health outcomes and decrease costs.
Obviously, there would need to be some limits on coverage. But even with private insurance today there are significant limits on coverage, so that wouldn't be any more frightening than the current rationing system. Indeed, the extra 40% currently lost to the existing system could be redirected to what matters most: care.
Lastly, anyone who wanted more coverage than universally provided would be free to purchase it, similarly to those who want a post-secondary education. But no American citizens would be left without basic health care.
I'm very surprised at the anti-market health care voices here. To anyone who says that the market doesn't work in health care, can you give me a business case on why more government does work?
Ultimately, we're talking about a system to allocate (and ration) capital. Markets work very well in allocating capital in all other industries, and I can't see how they wouldn't work in health care - even considering the moral/ethical argument that medical care shouldn't be dependent on financial status.
On the other hand, government is a notoriously bad allocator of capital. While you would hope that health care funding decisions could be driven by logic and merit, we see in all Congressional decisions the over-influence of hindsight, patronage, and lobbying.
Government also - at least in the USA - is seemingly incapable of saying "No," which is a fundamental requirement of successfully and fairly allocating capital.
Ultimately, all arguments over health care policy are arguments on directing the flow of capital (investment and ongoing operating funds). So please, anti-market voices, tell me how government is going to produce better outcomes from better allocation decisions, or illustrate how resources will otherwise be allocated more efficiently.
Tharanga, why do you think I'm referring to the co-ops included in current bills ? I'm not. I want single payer, and it doesn't have to be government run. What I have in mind would be eligible for government subsidies (no competition issues), and - because non-profit - private gifts. The Antis, while hysterical about "socialism" don't seem to mind the private, corporate socialism that actually dominates health insurance. So why not take advantage of that ?
Just to drown out at least one voice attacking Frist's character and his reasonableness in commenting on health care: I for one am glad that he was interviewed (as I would be for any Senate Majority Leader), and I am also glad that we saw there is at least one other view on health care policy besides either the Democrat policy wonk/establishment view or the death panel crowds.
Discrediting Frist's views with "but he's rich," or "but Terry Schiavo" only serves to discredit your arguments.
bill frist of unh wealth is a ridiculous person to interview. come on boys and girls, we expect better from the economist. like asking cheney about haliburton and oil policy. not even worth the ink you spilled.
As soon as he said "rationing" it was clear he is just a tool of the anti-reform lobby. Any reasonable person who is at all familiar with the issue knows that rationing is inevitable and already occurring. The only question is how to ration fairly.
bampbs: Folding Medicare and Medicaid into coops is illogical. Coops are meant to not require direct inputs of taxpayer money, at least after they're up and running. On the other hand, the very existence of Medicare and Medicaid depends on tax money.
"There is no right to health care, no more than there's a right to anything produced by others (there isn't)."
Nobody's demanding that hospital emergency rooms require payment before treatment, so there must be *some* right to health care. The question isn't whether or not there's a right to health care (because apparently, there's is), the questions are *to what extent* is health care a right, and how we're going to pay for it.
The answer on physicians' incentives is interesting.
Even though he fibbed with "market-based competition" and "value", Frist in effect admitted, perhaps unintentionally, that doctors need to be in a comprehensive system like HMO, Mayo, and various "health systems" that address cost, laws, and other issues of the larger picture, instead of private practices that are small businesses.
It's telling that even a medical star and prominent conservative politician is forced to acknowledge this.
Doctors complain about cost, legal, and administrative issues that these are not their job. If they don't want to deal with these, they'll have to work for people who do.
You're really scraping the bottom of the barrel in interviewing this disgraceful former senator. As somebody mentioned above, think about Terry Schiavo. Frist's behavior in that case tells you all you need to know about him.
Who cares what this self-centered multimillionaire jackass thinks about health care reform?
What's next for you? Eight questions for Lou Dobbs on immigration reform?
Mr Frist calls for "market-based, competitive forces". This is precisely what has caused the problems with today's employer based US health care system. It began with Blue Cross in the 1920s and culminates with today's mess, which only serves to fatten the pockets of insurance companies.
It has been proven throughout the world over the last century that market-based systems do not result in adequate health care. Bill Frist's comments are so disingenuous that they border on fraud.
Former Senator Frist is the conservative politician doctor/genius who helped the US Congress intervene in the Terry Schiavo case, and -
Recently bought a subsidized Toyota via the cash-for-clunkers program (although he's a millionaire a few times over).
When asked about the Toyota, as I recall he replied with "if the American public is going to subsidize a new car for me, I'll take it."
I don't know. To use the venacular, he just kind of creeps me out...
Americans flocked to Obama like saved fundamentalists at a revival meeting. He promised them a government run medical care system and that had to be good.
But they already have government medicine. Governments pay for 60% of medical care costs and regulate the special interests, like physicians, insurance companies and hospitals, explaining why costs are outlandish.
Americans got what they wanted. They have been conditioned to value medical care more than it is worth. Medicine has become the new religion. People believe that doctors can prolong lives, delay the normal aging process, and make life better. They have been sold on these superstitions by the media that hypes high tech advances in medicine that may help a tiny percentage of the general public. Americans ascribe the general prolonging of life spans to medical care, whereas the real reasons include public health measures against infectious diseases, better diets and lessening of physical stresses. Doctors thump the pulpit by talking gullible families into "doing what we can" to keep Granny alive, when in actuality they officiously prolong Granny's dying.
Americans file into pews and throw their dollars into the collection basket because they BELIEVE.
Europeans are not caught up in the American creed. It may be that Europeans got "free medical care" at a time when medical care could do little to alter the course of illnesses. Comforting the dying and their relatives was what they expected from doctors a hundred years ago when many of those schemes were introduced. The modest accomplishments of their medical systems has not led Europeans to alter their expectations.
I agree with the Europeans. There are a few surgical procedures like appendix removal that save life. Many orthopedic operations make for a more enjoyable life. Occasionally an antibiotic or an antihypertensive helps. But frying the brains of Ted Kennedy and Robert Novak prolonged their lives by an additional 6 months as steroidal zombies.
The Democratic proposals don't do anything to make Americans reject salvation, so I suppose that the special interests will continue to prosper.
Republican ripped off some Libertarian ideas that would force individuals to confront the cost-benefit calculus, but few of their politicians (Frist does) understand consumer driven health care, and most would reject it if they did.
I don't see anything in my lifetime curbing the American appetite for the marvelous.
One final note:
"When we last debated health care in 2003, a massive bill on prescription drugs was passed initially through the Senate with 76 votes, thus showing bipartisanship can be achieved."
Yes, Senator Frist. If someone proposes an entitlement program for voters that is not deficit neutral (i.e. no spending is cut and no new taxes are levied to pay for the program), bipartisanship can be achieved. Everybody, Republicans and Democrats, loves an unfunded entitlement program. You're the Daniel Webster of the post Y2K era. Well done!
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That Ghesquière could open his show with something as potentially mundane as a little black dress—and blow away even the most forward-thinking retailer or editor—is testimony to both his sharp fashion instincts and technical prowess. Each of the 34 looks stalking his catwalk was a marvel of imagination and intricate construction, intriguing from all angles. "The dress that opened the show, I refitted the waist one hour before. I wanted it to fit her perfectly," Ghesquière relates from California, where he is readying Balenciaga's new Melrose Avenue boutique in West Hollywood. "The girls come in for fittings five times in the two or three days before the show. When you make something with precision, and good craft, it makes all the difference."
Ghesquière's quiet arrival at the design helm of Balenciaga 11 years ago has certainly made all the difference, transforming an almost forgotten brand into one of the hottest names in the business, snapped up by Gucci Group in 2001. Ghesquière's latest collection demonstrated a new ease and confidence, showing him able to nimbly reference the legacy of the late great Spanish couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga, while increasingly asserting his own daring, futuristic sensibility.
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Yes, the Samsung Galaxy S4 has been 'unofficially unveiled' recently (all thanks to SamMobile).
The image posted here shows that the Galaxy S4 sports a 12.7cm display and a button less design as well.
SamMobile said that the Samsung Galaxy S4 will land with a powerful quad-core processor and 13MP main camera. From the Galaxy S3' 8MP to 13MP main camera, this is sure to blow your mind (if and when it comes in with that powerful camera).
"We of SamMobile just received a huge tip from our insider at Samsung and according to him this is the next generation of the Galaxy S series, the Galaxy S 4," and also added that "We can't 100% confirm if this is indeed the Galaxy S4 but the picture he sent to us looks really sharp and doesn't look fake at all."
The image given above clearly shows a new design for the Galaxy S series. This being the 4th, you will instantly see the difference between the Galaxy S4 and its successors.
The Galaxy S4 is expected to run on the Android Jelly Bean OS.
There are also rumours circulating all over the net suggesting that the phone will come in with a new type of 'bendable screen' (making the S4 almost unbreakable if it's true). But if you look at the image above, it doesn't show any radical differences from the traditional display screen to the bendable one.
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