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Sea Launch deploys TV satellite for Latin America BY JUSTIN RAY SPACEFLIGHT NOW Posted: August 19, 2012 A telecommunications satellite for broadcasting cable and direct-to-home TV programming across Latin America and the Caribbean was blasted into orbit today atop a 20-story-tall booster rocket launched from a floating platform in the Pacific Ocean.
It was Sea Launch's 33rd mission since its inaugural flight in March 1999. The company's concept uses the planet's advantageous rotation speed at the equator to help gain velocity en route to space, increasing the amount of payload that can be carried to the orbit utilized by geosynchronous communications satellites. The two Ukrainian-made lower stages of the rocket performed their firings to propel the Russian Block DM-SL upper stage and Intelsat satellite out of the atmosphere during the initial eight-and-a-half minutes of flight. The upper stage then took over, completing a single burn lasting 11-and-a-half minutes to reach an elliptical geosynchronous transfer orbit that was targeting a high point of 22,236 miles and low point of 174 miles with an inclination of 0 degrees. The Intelsat 21 satellite will maneuver itself into a circular geostationary orbit 22,300 miles above the equator where it can match Earth's rotation and seem parked over one spot of the globe. That slot will be 58 degrees West longitude to replace the 12-year-old Intelsat 9 spacecraft, formerly known as PAS 9 for PanAmSat before joining Intelsat through a fleet merger. It was deployed by Sea Launch in 2000. "Intelsat 21 will meet the needs of key customers such as SKY Mexico, Turner, Discovery, Fox, Telespazio and many others," said David McGlade, Intelsat's CEO. The 13,192-pound satellite was built by Boeing using the 702MP medium-power spacecraft design and life expectancy of 15 year or more. It is equipped with a communications package of 36 Ku-band and 24 C-band transponders for video, radio, data and telephone relay services. Boeing has built 50 communications satellites for Intelsat since 1967. This was the second Sea Launch mission of the year for Intelsat. The previous mission in June, however, suffered a mysterious incident that damaged one of the power-generating solar arrays and will impact the Loral-built craft's capabilities. The next ocean-going liftoff is targeted for January to loft the Boeing-made Intelsat 27. Today's mission was the third flight for Sea Launch since the firm emerged from bankruptcy and corporate restructuring, having successfully gotten back into the business of hauling satellites to space last September. The Intelsat 21 satellite and Zenit 3SL rocket were integrated together at the Sea Launch Home Port in Long Beach, Calif., before departing for the equatorial Pacific earlier this month. The ocean-going launch pad known as Odyssey set sail first, followed later by the departure of the Sea Launch Commander vessel, which houses the launch control center, management team and official guests. Upon arrival at the launch site, Odyssey's ballast tanks were filled with seawater, dropping the platform to the launch depth of 65 feet. The Sea Launch Commander then pulled alongside Odyssey to allow workers to easily transfer between the two ships. Early Saturday, the rocket was rolled out from its hangar aboard Odyssey and hydraulically hoisted upright on the launch pedestal. Launch controllers spent the last hours of countdown making final preparations to the rocket, payload and ground infrastructure. The Sea Launch Commander moved from the Odyssey platform to a safe viewing distance about three miles away. Fueling operations got underway about two hours prior to the scheduled liftoff time as a mixture of refined kerosene and liquid oxygen was loaded into all three stages of the launch vehicle. |
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The only article I ever had published in The Nation involved the offspring of a powerful politician trading on his White House connections to advance his private fortune. The piece was written 12 years ago, as the Enron scandal was breaking. (And boy, doesn't that seem several centuries ago now, looking back over the vast flooded plains of blood and ruin that our bipartisan elites have bequeathed us since then.) this [decision] "must in no way be construed as indicating that the party has been exonerated or that no action may ultimately result from the staff's investigation." (Of course, this has never stopped Bush from claiming that he was "exonerated" by the SEC.) All in all, the Harken caper was pretty small beer when viewed against the Bush Family's mammoth record of corruption, going back many decades, mixing politics and private profit with a cheerful amorality that easily encompassed mobsters, tyrants, gun-runners, drug dealers, religious extremists, spies and, yes, the Nazis. In the span of a few weeks, an energy firm little-known inside the United States added two members to its board of directors — scoring connections to Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden in the bargain. So: a Ukrainian energy firm with holdings in pro-Russian Ukraine has just hired the son of the US Vice President — who has been Washington's point man in supporting the coup regime in Kyiv — to a prominent and no doubt well-remunerated position. At the same time, Washington has been fierce and forceful in its support for the Kyiv regime's violent efforts to quell the kind of opposition in Western Ukraine that it employed to take power in the capital; i.e., occupation of public spaces with the support of armed militias, with support from foreign entities (the Kremlin in eastern Ukraine; Washington (and US oligarchs) in Kyiv). |

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Expected so much more from a citybuilder
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MEXICO/CT - Amid drug war, Mexico less deadly than decade ago (sunday)
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Posted on Sunday, 02.07.10
MEXICO CITY -- Decapitated bodies dumped on the streets, drug-war
shootings and regular attacks on police have obscured a significant fact:
A falling homicide rate means people in Mexico are less likely to die
violently now than they were more than a decade ago.
It also means tourists as well as locals may be safer than many believe.
Mexico City's homicide rate today is about on par with Los Angeles and is
less than a third of that for Washington, D.C.
Yet many Americans are leery of visiting Mexico at all. Drug violence and
the swine flu outbreak contributed to a 12.5 percent decline in air travel
to Mexico by U.S. citizens in 2009, according to the U.S. Department of
Commerce, a blow to Mexico's third-largest source of foreign income.
Mexico, Colombia and Haiti are the only countries in the hemisphere
subject to a U.S. government advisory warning travelers about violence,
even though homicide rates in many Latin American countries are far
"What we hear is, 'Oh the drug war! The dead people on the streets, and
the policeman losing his head,'" said Tobias Schluter, 34, a civil
engineer from Berlin having a beer at a cafe behind Mexico City's
16th-century cathedral. "But we don't see it. We haven't heard a gunshot
or anything."
Mexico's homicide rate has fallen steadily from a high in 1997 of 17 per
100,000 people to 14 per 100,000 in 2009, a year marked by an
unprecedented spate of drug slayings concentrated in a few states and
cities, Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna said. The national rate
hit a low of 10 per 100,000 people in 2007, according to government
figures compiled by the independent Citizens' Institute for Crime Studies.
By comparison, Venezuela, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala have
homicide rates of between 40 and 60 per 100,000 people, according to
recent government statistics. Colombia was close behind with a rate of 33
in 2008. Brazil's was 24 in 2006, the last year when national figures were
Mexico City's rate was about 9 per 100,000 in 2008, while Washington, D.C.
was more than 30 that year.
"In terms of security, we are like those women who aren't overweight but
when they look in the mirror, they think they're fat," said Luis de la
Barreda, director of the Citizens' Institute. "We are an unsafe country,
but we think we are much more unsafe that we really are."
Of course, drug violence has turned some places in Mexico, including the
U.S. border region and some parts of the Pacific coast, into near-war
zones since President Felipe Calderon intensified the war against cartels
with a massive troop deployment in 2006. That has made Ciudad Juarez,
across the border from El Paso, Texas, among the most dangerous cities in
the world.
"The violence, homicides and cruel and inhuman assassinations, which fill
the pages of our media, make us feel that there has been much more
violence since this war against drug trafficking," said Bishop Miguel Alba
Diaz of La Paz, a vacation city at the tip of the Baja California
Mexico's violence is often more shocking than elsewhere in Latin America
because powerful cartels go to extremes to intimidate the government and
rival smugglers.
In just one week in December, the severed heads of six police
investigators were dumped in a public plaza, kingpin Arturo Beltran Leyva
died in a two-hour shootout with troops at a luxury apartment complex in a
resort city and gunmen slaughtered the family of the only marine killed in
that battle.
In the new year, it's become even more grotesque. Three weeks ago, a
victim's face was peeled from his skull and sewn onto a soccer ball. Days
later, the remains of 41-year-old former police officer were divided into
two separate ice chests.
Authorities say the vast majority of victims are drug suspects, but
bystanders, including children, sometimes get caught in the crossfire.
Mexico has the same problems with corrupt police, gang violence and
poverty as other Latin American countries with higher homicide rates. So
why the decline in murders?
Experts say while drug violence is up, land disputes have eased. Many
farmers have migrated to the cities or abroad and the government has
pushed to resolve the land disputes, some centuries old.
During the height of the Zapatista uprising in the mid 1990s - a rebellion
fueled by land conflicts - southern Chiapas state had a rate of nearly 40
per 100,000 people with 1,000 homicides a year. By 2008, that fell to 8
per 100,000 people with 364 killings.
De la Barreda attributes the downward trend to a general improvement in
Mexico's quality of life. More Mexicans have joined the ranks of the
middle class in the past two decades, while education levels and life
expectancy have also risen.
Critics of Calderon's drug war say his frontal assault on cartels is
giving Mexico a reputation as a violent country but doing little to stop
the drug gangs' work.
"It's a bad international image that affects foreign tourism and foreign
investment," said Jose Luis Pineyro, a sociologist at Mexico's Autonomous
Metropolitan University who has studied the drug war.
Drug violence has encroached on the resort towns of Zihuatanejo, Acapulco,
Puerto Vallarta and Cancun. The millions of foreign tourists who visit
each year are almost never targeted, but a handful have gotten caught in
the crossfire. In 2007, two Canadians were grazed by bullets when someone
fired into a hotel lobby in Acapulco. In January, a Canadian couple was
shot and wounded in a robbery attempt just outside Zihuatanejo.
The U.S. State Department travel alert says dozens of U.S. citizens living
in Mexico have been kidnapped over the years, and warns Americans against
traveling to the states of Chihuahua and Michoacan.
Chihuahua, home to Ciudad Juarez, had a horrifying homicide rate of 173
per 100,000 in the city of 1.3 million, or more than 2,500 murders last
Michoacan, famed for its Monarch butterfly refuge, Day of the Dead
celebrations and picturesque colonial capital, is now also widely known as
the place where five heads rolled across a dance floor. Drug violence is
blamed for many of the state's 660 killings last year.
But in many parts of Mexico, villages are more tranquil than ever - a fact
that retired nurse Marilyn Wells struggles to drive home with her American
friends back home in LeMars, Iowa.
"'We're OK, there's no problem,'" Wells said she tells friends about the
home she bought four years ago in Cabo San Lucas on the southern tip of
the Baja California peninsula. "I don't feel any less safe down here than
I did before."
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Nandroya Falls Circuit Track is located within Palmerston (Doongan) Wooroonooran National Park. The Palmerston section of Wooroonooran National Park is included in the traditional lands of the Ma:Mu Aboriginal people. At the heart of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, it is a place of very high biodiversity, due to the high rainfall and fertile soils derived from basalt rocks. The dense rainforest with more than 500 rainforest tree species attracts a diverse range of animals and provides many opportunities for viewing them in their natural environment. Bright butterflies are commonly encountered and observant visitors may see a platypus swimming in the creek or a musky rat-kangaroo hopping through the forest.
... moreThe six kilometre circuit track leaves from the western side of Henrietta Creek camping area, cross the footbridge over Henrietta Creek. After a short distance the track divides. The left branch leads directly to Nandroya Falls (1.7 kilometres), winding along the upper valley of Douglas Creek, passing the pretty, 10 metre high Silver Creek Falls on the way. The right branch is a longer 3.5 kilometre route to the falls. At Nandroya Falls, Douglas Creek drops in a narrow, uninterrupted, 50 metre fall from a basalt parapet. This walk can be done as a circuit walk, returning by the alternative route, allowing 2-3 hours walking time to complete this track of a moderate grade.
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Distance | 6 Kilometres | Itinerary Route | Circuit |
Mode of Travel | Walk | Level of Difficulty |
The Nandroya Falls Circuit Track is managed by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service. Please note that this map only shows an indicative start point for the walk. The track route and end point are not shown and this map cannot be used for navigation purposes. Please see the Queensland National Parks, Recreation, Sport and Racing web site for detailed maps and the latest park information, including opening hours and safety messages. When you are in the park, make sure you refer to signs at the start of the track for more information.


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6 Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to pledge: for he hath pledged his life to thee. | 6 Do not take a pair of millstones--not even the upper one--as security for a debt, because that would be taking a man's livelihood as security. |
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Greg Smith's book "High-Performance SQL" is a good start.
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Greg Smith's book "High-Performance SQL" is a good start.
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80x24 even on a C64 was painful; the best one I saw was VIPTerm from SoftLaw, but there's only so much you can do with a 4x8 pixel grid.
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As I recall, the move that secured the C64's place in market history was the price drop. It originally sold for $595, but in 1984 a combination price drop (to $299) and a $100 trade-in rebate for your videogame console meant you could buy it for $200 at Toys-R-Us. That was the magic number.
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You really wanted to LOAD "0:*",8,1, though, because if you left off the "0:" you'd trigger a bug in the 1541 ROMs that would eventually cause you to corrupt a program if you used save-and-replace. (The 0: indicated drive 0 of a dual drive; IIRC those were only produced for earlier PET/CBM computers with an IEEE-488 bus, and not for Commodores - though we did eventually see Lt. Kernal hard drives with partitions 0-9.)
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On a similar note.. growing up I had a scooter that would do 22mph with one rider, and 5mph with two.
I figure if I'd been able to fit seven people on it, I could go 80mph backwards.
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No, you misunderstood the reasoning. The United States takes up more space than England.
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Remember, the people funding this research have a vested interest and a strong desire to have the numbers come out the way they want them to and, no surprise, they generally do.
Yep. I worked on a cybercrime startup idea for a while, and every single "cost of cybercrime" calculation I found - even from government agencies - was based on the same estimate from MarkMonitor. After a few years, MM was able to cite the more "official" sources with a circular reference.
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GIF patent was on the compression used by GIF, not GIF itself. The patent was held by UNISYS, not AOL/CompuServe.
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Oh, we were... I remember trying (and failing) to convince Cisco that they should make some type of load balancer. They didn't see the need.
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OTOH, I suppose you could take every statement and turn it into a group of PREPARE/EXECUTE/DEALLOCATE. Not sure if there are performance implications with that, though.
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What's a New York Times?
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To be replaced by fear of decapitation, no doubt.
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They work with the SAS - that's Super Army Soldiers!
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So was L. Ron Hubbard right about "engrams" causing PTSD?
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I've been sleeping in my extended wear lenses as well, and I've worried I'm taking a theoretical risk. Were these modern disposable silicone hydrogels, or the older extended-wear kind? As I understand it, cataracts arose as a side effect of microbial keratitis, and the risks of a severe infection are lower with silicone hydrogels (as well as with disposables in general).
What sort of eye nutrition do you recommend?
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They couldn't verify my high school GPA. Not surprising, I graduated 40 years ago.
Suuure, you did. In Kenya.
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The picture was quickly replaced, but it wasn't long before other vandals came along and smashed it again.
Determined to keep her son's memory alive after he was killed in Afghanistan, Healy decided that despite the vandalism, the picture should be replaced again, but this time in a more durable stainless steel.
As word of the vandalism spread, donations began pouring in.
A new picture of her son in his chief's uniform was installed just before Christmas, but with so many donated funds left over, Healy said, it became clear that more needed to be done.
"We realized that we needed to take those funds and channel them into something that would be long term," she said.
Healy, of Exeter, is launching Healy's Heroes, a program designed to teach elementary school-age children about courage and kindness. She's now trying to get the word out to schools, clubs and other organizations.
"Those traits of kindness and courage are what our fallen heroes exemplify. As it turns out, (the vandalism) was a blessing in disguise because we can now have a program that will inspire children. Even if we can prevent it from happening one or two times, it'll be worth it," she said.
Healy's son was a 36-year-old senior chief petty officer who died on June 28, 2005, when his helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan. The father of four was born and raised in Exeter and was among eight SEALs and eight Army Night Stalkers aboard a helicopter that rushed to rescue four other SEALs who had come under attack during a mission known as Operation Red Wings. All were killed, along with three of the four SEALs they tried to rescue. It was the largest single-day loss of life in Navy SEAL history.
The new program, which Healy said will need more monetary donations to expand, will target children in first through fourth grade.
Healy said children who participate in the program must learn about a fallen hero or wounded warrior of their choice, then answer a questionnaire focused on kindness and courage with help from their parents and teachers. The children must also perform two acts of kindness a week for three weeks, which must be documented, for their family, friends, neighbors, teachers or classmates.
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Healy named the program after a special award that honors chiefs aboard the USS Michael Murphy, a new guided missile destroyer named after a Navy SEAL Healy was trying to rescue when he was killed.
Areas of the ship are dedicated to those killed in Operation Red Wings. The chiefs' mess is dedicated to Healy, and each month a Healy's Hero award is given to someone who exemplifies the best qualities of a chief.
"I had the pleasure of presenting the first Healy's Hero award to Chief Jake Dort, who had worked with Dan at SDVT, Pearl Harbor. We liked the name and the sentiment behind it so much, we used it for our own program," Healy said.
Healy said children will be allowed to participate every six months. "The idea is to start off with the younger ones," she said.
Healy's Heroes will also focus on fitness. Healy plans to donate some jump ropes to schools that participate in the program to encourage kids to stay active by starting jump roping clubs.
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"When children are required to say 'please' before getting whatever their little heart desires, it sends a message that they have to pay a small price for what they want, even if it's a little word like 'please.' I used to tell Danny, 'With good manners and good grammar, you can go anywhere and talk to anybody,'" Healy said.
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GGTom, I used to live in Costa Rica and many U.S. citizens would travel there for healthcare. To me, spending $1000+ dollars to travel to a developing country for healthcare says a lot more about the state of healthcare in the U.S. than driving across the border from Canada for healthcare....if your story is even true.
America has a much wider demographic range than do European nations. Wider range on education, income, and other metrics.
Within America's health care system, when it comes to those who do have insurance, it is observable that there is an economic feeding frenzy going on to various degrees on the parts of hospitals, medical professionals, medical device companies, and pharma companies when they get access to a fully insured patient.
Thus, America has the problem of over-serving -- and sometimes injuring through such pathways as hospital acquired infections -- those who have insurance, while under-serving those who do not.
Add it all up, and this "system" accounts for 18% of America's economy as measured by GDP, a disturbing figure when one looks at what it yields to America's people.
One imagines various pathways through which for America's government/s could actually help reduce cost and improve quality. An obvious pathway is government-promoted, or even provided, early screening and preventative care.
While it might be unconstitutional to force all Americans to purchase insurance, it is surely not unconstitutional to offer Americans free, early screening for various conditions which, if caught early, would reduce the national health burden. The same goes for vaccination programs.
When it comes to a nation's health, there is much to the adage that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".
In America, those with generous health insurance policies get a metric ton of cure, often when they do not even need it, while those lacking insurance have clear difficulties accessing both preventions and cures.
Excellent article, which does two things to this non-American:
1) It highlights in numeric terms one aspect of America's incredible disparities, be they cultural, economic, geographic, etc. An eye-opener on this amazingly diverse society.
2) It brings into life a less-spoken-about element of the healthcare reform debate, which is the expected health benefits of some sort of universal coverage. Much of the conversation has, so far, focused on reining in spiralling costs (which is a key element), the constitutionality of the mandate (ditto), and associated political agenda (far less so, in my opinion), but not quite as much about the daily implications of wider, more affordable coverage.
It is none of my business, but it would actually be nice to see the debate move away from partisan hysteria, and into problem-solving, especially when the problem is as diverse and seemingly intractable as the health of 300 million people.
"Under these circumstances, we do not need (and most of us do not want)a uniform system of healthcare provided by a central government. "
you do realize that each industrialized nation has a different means to universal coverage?
paying high or low premiums is a matter also of income level. you seem to think it's a matter of preference with rergard to the level of care people should get.
while I am all for eliminating state by state limited coverage, three or four insurers dominate 80% of the markets nation wide. try the individual market some time with a pre existing condition and see if you feel the same afterward.
And please, don't confound lots of medical tests with health care. mostly they are the way the docs pad their wallets.
I won't bother with the rather blatent logial flaws in your defense of outcomes.
The US contains a wide-range of subcultures that vary from one another more than is the norm elsewhere in the world. Our eating, exercise, smoking, and religious norms all affect our health and this study highlights our cherished diversity.
Under these circumstances, we do not need (and most of us do not want)a uniform system of healthcare provided by a central government. What American healthcare consumers need is choices and options -- something that our heavily-lobbied state insurance commissions do not presently allow, something that the Affordable Healthcare Act definitely will not deliver.
The best way to meet consumers healthcare needs would be to eliminate state insurance commissions and their (often expensive) mandates and allow free competition in health care. Some of us would choose to have lots of health care and have our insurers pay for every bit of it; such consumers would pay high premiums but they would think the screenings and testings to be worth the costs. Others of us would choose to live healthy lifestyles and have only catastrophic coverage from an insurer; such consumers would pay low premiums. Still others might decide to join healthcare coops based on our religious beliefs or business affiliations or ethnic roots; such non-profit coops, which are allowed in only a few states, are always very inexpensive.
This article mentions that American healthcare outcomes are not remarkably good. This is a common enough error made by advocates of universal care who don't have enough imagination to consider anything other than a single-payer system. But the facts are at odds with this claim. Our mortality rates are the best the world when our high rates of violence are taken into account (when someone dies by being shot or stabbed to death, this death is not a reflection of the quality of health care). Our infant mortality rates are probably the best in the world when one considers that the US healthcare system saves more risky pregnancies than any other system -- but our infant mortality numbers are not so hot when a disproportionate number of those risky pregnancies end in the death of an infant. Our health outcomes in a wide variety of cancers and other serious diseases are usually the best even though some flawed studies conclude otherwise -- the typical error in these studies is that they only consider treatment after prognosis (this variable is about equal across all developed nations) but the US healthcare system conducts mammograms, scans, and tests at very high rates and therefore finds cancers and other treatable diseases at earlier stages and therefore has better bottom line outcomes.
But I applaud this particular study -- discovering and discussing the diversity of our health care needs may lead people to start discussing how best to meet consumers wildly variable healthcare expectations.
Lee Nason
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It has long seemed to me that no amount of information can change American's minds on this issue but I will provide a couple of personal observations as a Canadian. Canada generally has superior outcomes to the U.S. in terms of overall statistics while spending about 1/2 as much. We also have certain populations that are heavy users of health care. The elderly, natives and drug users account for ( I believe) about 75% or more of health care dollars. Our health care is quite inefficient ( what do you expect, it's run by the government and powerfully unionized). It is slowly being improved.
I am a cancer survivor ( surgery within days),kidney dialysis patient for 5 years and now a transplant patient. This process did not bankrupt me and I received excellent car throughout. We have issues up here but virtually no one Canada would vote to give up public health care. To me the best argument for the U.S. to adopt something similar is that the savings would probably be sufficient to pay off the national debt over 2 or 3 decades. Just sayin'.
"Our health care is quite inefficient ( what do you expect, it's run by the government .."
Well if Canadian health care is inefficient, what does that say about US health care - twice the expense for half the aggregate health outcomes?
Economic theory says a health care system that:
1) provides only voluntary insurance that won't cover the unhealthiest segment of the population; and
2) is based on pure fee-for-service with individual providers deciding what services should be provided;
will always be very inefficient. Google the terms "asymmetric information", "adverse selection" and "supplier-induced demand". International comparison of health care systems provides strong empiric confirmation of the theory.
The argument over who should pay for an inherently dysfunctional health care system obscures the fact that the system is dysfunctional. Any nation that has all the incentives pointed towards poor behaviors (drive don't walk, eat junk rather than real food, sit watching TV rather than going to the gym, etc.) is clearly going to suffer horrible consequences regardless of how much is spent or by whom. People here in the USA expect to "eat themselves thin" through a variety of bogus diets, pills, and other fads that are profitable to the charlatans and drugs companies but otherwise have no real value. Very few seem prepared to take responsibility for their own health - for example, only 3% of Americans have gym memberships, the average American walks fewer than five miles per week, and so forth. Until these basic things change it really doesn't matter how we re-arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic - the health ship is going down because the fundamentals are wrong.
I am not an expert on healthcare. But, I have a few small comments.
1) I have relatives that live in Canada that live opposite Buffalo, New York (Niagara Falls). They tend to drive into the United States to get much of their healthcare. In Canada it would be "free", so why come here?
(2) How can any Legislative Body pass a Bill that is 2700+ pages and neither have read it or understand it?
(3) In the long term, What would be the effect of the expansion of the Commerce Clause on the power of the States and the Federal Government (the "law" of unintended Consequences scare me to be honest). What would Congress through the Commerce Clause grab next?
A sad little story... And yes Fat describes it.
My Father and I were driving from Florida to New York visiting Relatives as we went. We stopped in a Wendy's for lunch (we do not eat much fast food). They had two burgers for the price of one; we watched a family of four consume something like 16 of these burgers. Everyone of them Mom, Dad, Son (about 12), Daughter (about 10) were fat, fat , fat. Later I told my dad that I thought essentially it was child abuse. But what can you do?
No matter how much money the U.S. spends on today's seniors, and on tax-based subsidies for employer provided health insurance for the better off, and drugs which promise to supposedly prevent old age from happening and eliminate every discomfort, it doesn't seem to improve the health of ordinary people under age 65.
Confusing, eh?
This seems like a simple solution....if only staying healthy was so simple. When I was a grad student I remember a professor, who was a long distance runner, he ate healthy (no fast food, oatmeal for breakfast), he was not over weight, he certainly did not smoke, and not a binge drinker (if he drank at all). And yet, he developed prostate cancer, due to not following step 4....
Step 4: Don't grow old
All great, vital advice Orkfest. Only problem: they don't explain why America spends more on healthcare than other Western countries that have better outcomes. Europeans do not exercise more, or smoke or drink less. Their diet is better (not much).
I suspect our measurement metrics are faulty. But even that doesn't address the fact that there is tremendous waste in US healthcare. But what do you expect when the mentality is that healthcare is "free"? America is losing its way on healthcare.
These are all good points, but unless you start making people pay a higher price for unhealthy lifestyles, I don't think you will see any real improvement.
Why should an obese smoker and a fitness nut pay the same rates?
We do fund a lot of research but certainly not all. Go outside of the U.S. and you can get prescription drugs that are not available in the U.S....the research that supports those drugs had to occur somewhere.
As to rationing care, we most certainly do do that. I doubt too many poor 30 year olds would be able to get a heart transplant if needed. And yet, just two weeks ago the very old darth Cheney received one.
You forgot to mention that you don't currently have the flu yet you are paying for someone receiving treatment for it.
You got no clue how Insurance model works, do you? Then again, you still think there are death panels
The countries which are compared with America generally tend to have babies later too. Average age of mother at first birth in US is 25 years which is closer to 30 in Canada and most developed countries of Europe.
Given that, the infant mortality should be less in US for equal level of healthcare. That implies that US health care (access to people) is worse that the statistics suggest.
Instead of making up excuses, it is time that you acknowledged the truth.
Ah, but should healthcare be the sort of thing covered by insurance? (I won't bother responding to the very odd concept of insurance being "socialist".)
We don't pay for schooling by insurance; we simply assume that the basic education of the entire population is in the interest of the country as a whole. Surely it would make sense to provide _basic_ healthcare to everyone as a right paid for by taxes so that we have a fit-to-work population, and then let people buy private health insurance for anything above and beyond that based on the usual health criteria: age, history, weight and smoking (as the insurer so desires).
Health care is a complex issue and it is well known that Canada (4th) is well ahead of the USA (29th) on the world chart even thought they are neighbours.
Doesn't the demand for healthcare basically encompass the entire population? And it did rising prices in healthcare. Romneycare and Obamacare don't expand demand, they simply levy a tax on everyone to subsidize care for the sick, while still allowing people to pick their own insurance plans and therefore giving incentive for insurance companies to compete with each other.
Also, making people pay a price for bad health decisions is exactly the system we've had for decades, and it didn't result in healthier people. Having access to healthcare and doctors' advice will probably be more likely to get people to change their lifestyles.
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