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We remember David Eldridge when he used to work in the 1980s on the shoe stall. His play raised a few nostalgic laughs - we recognised so many real Romford people and stories. Obviously the characters are larger than life because they are seen through the eyes of a naive 13-year-old who has just got his first job on the market.
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Then after the crash in 1991, it was all about survival, as the play also showed. If you had put money away, you could survive, but there was no guarantee you would make enough in a week to get by. But the camaraderie of the market traders was true whether times were good or bad. The language was spot-on too, though perhaps a bit exaggerated. I'm still known as "the Toby" - the name comes from Romany. As for my unpleasant character in the play, well I'd like to think it's a caricature. Perhaps that's how it is on some markets, but not at Romford.
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Many parents -- especially those born after the era of routine polio and measles infections -- don't remember if or when they had any of the common childhood infections, such as roseola, fifth disease, or croup, etc.

But many remember when they had chicken pox (varicella). People may think of it as a mild disease, but if after 20 or 30 years, you can still remember feeling sick for a week with an itchy rash all over your body, it was likely pretty bad. This was in the days before a vaccine existed, so most kids went through the rigors of chicken pox

Fortunately, we now have a vaccine which spares most of today's kids from the itchy rash -- or missing out on not only a week of school but also having to forgo trick-or-treating on Halloween, which happened to me when I got chicken pox when I was about eight years old.

Or even more tragically, being hospitalized or worse.

History of the Chicken Pox Vaccine

A chicken pox vaccine was first licensed by the FDA in 1995, after being used in Japan and Korea since 1988.

It was added to the U.S. routine child immunization schedule in 1996, with a recommendation for routine use for all children at twelve to eighteen months of age. A catch-up vaccination plan was also put in place at 11 to 12 years for older kids who are unvaccinated and hadn't caught chicken pox yet.

Recommendation for a chicken pox booster dose began in 2006.

Chicken pox immunization rates are generally very good. It is estimated that about 90% of toddlers are vaccinated against chicken pox, which has helped chicken pox cases drop by about 93% in many areas. Many states even require that kids get at least one dose of the chicken pox vaccine before starting school.

Chicken pox immunization is very effective against severe chicken pox infections - the type that would require hospitalization or that could be fatal. One dose of the chicken pox vaccine is 95 to 97% effective against severe disease.

Unfortunately, it is only about 70 to 90% effective against any infections, which means that some children can still develop mild cases of chicken pox even after getting the vaccine.

Severe infections are the real target of chicken pox immunization plans, though, as before routine use of the chicken pox vaccine, about 11,000 people were hospitalized with chicken pox each year, and 100 to 150 died.

Chicken Pox Vaccines

There are two different chicken pox vaccines, both live virus vaccines, for kids:

 Varivax - a monovalent (one disease) vaccine that can protect kids against chicken pox

 ProQuad - a quadrivalent (four diseases) vaccine that can protect kids against measles, mumps, rubella, and chicken pox

The current recommendations are that infants receive their first dose of the chicken pox vaccine when they are 12 to 15 months old and then get a booster dose when they are four to six years old. The second dose can be given earlier, though, as long as it is at least three months after the first dose.

Breakthrough Chicken Pox

Unlike unvaccinated children who get chicken pox (and who may have 200 to 500 chicken pox lesions for five to six days and a fever up to 102°F for two to three days), kids who get chicken pox after being vaccinated (known as "breakthrough varicella") with one or two doses of the chicken pox vaccine typically have much milder chicken pox symptoms.

The booster dose of the chicken pox vaccine can reduce the chance of a breakthrough infection even more than a single dose, but it still isn't 100% effective against preventing mild infections.

Some things to keep in mind about children with breakthrough varicella:

children will often have less than 50 chicken pox lesions - with some having only 5 to 10 lesions

90% of kids won't have any fever

recovery is usually faster - three to five days vs. seven days for unvaccinated kids

mild cases of chicken pox are often confused with bug bites, especially chiggers

Also, although kids with breakthrough varicella are contagious, they are much less contagious than a regular case of chicken pox in an unvaccinated child.

Since breakthrough chicken pox infections are often missed and misdiagnosed as bug bites, keep your suspicions high if your child has "bites" in unusual places or when he wasn't outside or exposed to anything that could have bitten him. Remember that a child's chest, abdomen, and back are rather unusual places to get bites vs. his arms, legs, and waistline.

Before kids got a booster dose, when breakthrough varicella did occur in schools, it is reported that 11 to 17% of exposed children who were vaccinated also got mild chicken pox vs over 70% of unvaccinated children who got a routine chicken pox infection. The use of the booster dose of Varivax will hopefully cut these rates and school outbreaks of chicken pox down even further.

What You Need to Know About Chicken Pox Vaccines

To get the most out of your child's chicken pox vaccine and protection against chicken pox, also remember that:

 Combination shots are generally preferred over single shots, except for ProQuad, since children who get ProQuad for their first dose of MMR and Varivax have been shown to have more fevers and fever-related seizures than children who get the separate shots.

MMR and Varivax can be given at the same time but if they aren't, since they are both live virus vaccines, they should be given at least 28 days apart.

Unvaccinated teens should get two doses of Varivax at least 4 weeks apart if they have never had chicken pox.

Varivax may prevent an unvaccinated child from getting chicken pox if given within three (and maybe five) days of exposure to someone with chicken pox. A post-exposure dose might also be a good idea if a child is exposed to chicken pox and hasn't had his booster dose yet.

People get chicken pox 10 to 21 days after coming into contact with someone who is still contagious, either because they have direct contact with their chicken pox lesions, because of contact with airborne droplets or infected respiratory tract secretions, or because they had contact with someone who had shingles.

Children with many immune system problems, except some children with HIV, and children who are allergic to the vaccine or its components, should not be vaccinated with the Varivax vaccine.

The risk of developing shingles seems to be lower in kids who received the chicken pox vaccine vs. kids who had natural chicken pox infections.

And know that the chicken pox vaccine is not creating a surge in shingles cases. That's an anti-vaccine myth.

Get your kids vaccinated and protected against chicken pox.

Sources:

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Committee on Infectious Diseases. (2003). Varicella-zoster infections. In LK Pickering (Ed.), Red Book: Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases (26th ed., p. 672-686).

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Committee on Infectious Diseases. Prevention of Varicella: Recommendations for Use of Varicella Vaccines in Children, Including a Recommendation for a Routine 2-Dose Varicella Immunization Schedule Pediatrics July 2007; 120:1 221-231

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Varicella outbreak among vaccinated children: Nebraska, 2004. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep.2006;55 :749-752

Davis MM, Patel MS, Gebremariam A. Decline in varicella-related hospitalizations and expenditures for children and adults after introduction of varicella vaccine in the United States. Pediatrics.2004;114 :786-792

Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases. 12th Edition (April 2011)

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Our district is more geographically constrained than most, and the citizens of the 34th face a unique set of transportation challenges as they move around our region. Vashon and Maury Islanders depend on the state ferry system to get to the mainland. West Seattleites have only a few ways to leave the peninsula, and when the bridge is blocked, their options are even fewer. And Burien and White Center residents who rely on the 1st Avenue South Bridge may soon find that corridor even more congested when the structurally unsound South Park Bridge closes at the end of June.
While our transportation needs are urgent, making transportation decisions looking one or two years in the future doesn't work. Our region needs durable, flexible transportation solutions. I'm committed to building ways for people and commerce to move in and out of our district that will make sense thirty years from now.
*Big projects that affect our community need to move forward. The South Park Bridge is exactly the kind of project that federal stimulus dollars should be funding, and I am encouraged to see governments in the region, including the City of Seattle and WSDOT, finally getting behind King County's request for stimulus funding for the South Park Bridge.
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Ever since Tim Eyman's Initiative 695 passed in 1999, the Legislature has tried quick fixes and band-aid solutions to our ferry system's capital needs. We can't kick the can down the road anymore, and it's time for a long-term solution to the ferry crisis. I am looking forward to fighting to fix our ferry system and am proud to have the endorsement of Rep. Christine Rolfes (D-Bainbridge Island), the Legislature's acknowledged leader on ferry issues.
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To 1) determine risk factors for death when respiratory failure develops following cardiovascular surgery, 2) identify predictors of tracheostomy, and 3) define the utility of tracheostomy in this setting.
From 1998 to 2001, 846 of 12,928 patients (6.5%) who underwent cardiovascular surgery required postoperative ventilatory support ≥ 72 hours. Their preoperative, intraoperative, and intensive care unit (ICU) admission data were analyzed for factors associated with time-related competing risks of tracheostomy and death before tracheostomy. Risk-adjusted expected mortality was compared to observed mortality after tracheostomy.
At 7, 14, and 30 days, mortality was 11%, 15%, and 21%; tracheostomy frequency was 8%, 16%, and 21%. Risk factors for death without tracheostomy included long aortic clamp time (P=.001), acidosis (P<.0001), hypotension (P<.0001), lower cardiac index (P=.008), and need for vasopressin (P<.0001) at ICU admission. Predictors of tracheostomy were extremes of age (older, P<.0001; younger, P=.03), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (P=.01), worse left ventricular function (P=.02), longer cardiopulmonary bypass time (P=.001), mitral valve replacement (P=.03), and aortic surgery (P=.03). Survival after tracheostomy (89%, 75%, and 32% at 14 and 30 days and 24 months) was worse than expected, based on status at ICU admission (91%, 85%, and 65% at these same intervals; figure).CONCLUSIONS: Respiratory failure following cardiovascular surgery portends an ominous outcome.
Worse-than-expected survival after tracheostomy suggests that it may not prevent mortality from respiratory failure, but rather identify a subset of patients less able to tolerate initial surgical stresses and the subsequent postoperative course.
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The other day I was sitting and chatting with somebody about this story. As usual they asked who I'm interviewing and where they're from, and I responded with his name and location. After I responded the person I was speaking to appeared to be confused and asked who the hell cared about a fighter from Altoona, Pennsylvania.
I was completely shocked with their question and wondered how they were a true MMA fan if they didn't avidly follow it across the country and furthermore, the world. When I think of avid fans I think of people that follow the entire sport, not just a section of it. For example, during basketball season I occasionally watch the Portland Trail Blazers because that's where I'm from. Not because I am a fan of the sport. A true fan of the sport would follow every NBA team right into the finals. A true MMA fan doesn't just follow their local MMA, or the 'fan favorites'. True MMA fans follow the sport because that's what they love. They follow all areas of the sport and want to know MMA fighters from all across the globe.
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Charlie Gathers who fights out of Dignan-Brumbaugh from Altoona, Pennsylvania is the oldest fighter that I have interviewed so far. At an age of 34, I wondered where he expects his career to take him. I figured when I interviewed him that he'd be one of these fighters that dreams of going to the UFC, or dreams of travelling the country proving themselves to be the 'natural born fighter' that they are. This guy is a complete 180 from that.
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"Its things like this that makes it difficult to be a certain styled fighter. I have to train all areas and be well rounded. I really hoped for change moving up to the pros, but I guess it's a struggle all the way around. I moved up to pro to face real and tough challengers, and nobody is stepping up to the plate."
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In many aspects an amateur and a pro are alike in the ways that they think and dream, but it's those who are realistic and dedicate time to an unknown future that prove worthy in the pro league.
Gathers isn't just a fighter. He's not just some guy from Altoona, Pennsylvania. He's a guy that has a story waiting to be unleashed. He's a realist, and doesn't expect things to be thrown at him or for him to have an easy pathway to success. He's a guy looking for success through his own personal determination, hard work, and dedication to a sport that he loves.


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Apr 10, 2014 at 1:23 pm #1315511
So the state of Texas doesn't require small businesses to have workers compensation insurance; it is one of the ways the state is trying to make it so much easier for companies to come to this state!!!
I have a new patient who, just before Christmas, had a 400# machine fall on him at work (it was not secured properly). His employer did not have workers compensation insurance (too expensive!), but because it was a work injury, his personal insurance didn't want to cover it. He went two weeks before he finally broke down and went to the emergency room (his employer called his wife and yelled at her for bringing him).
Turns out he has a broken pelvis, fractured femur, and associated soft tissue damage. He can't work, so he no longer has any of his employer's health insurance. His employer isn't paying – they don't want to pay for any further medical care; they are fighting EVERYTHING. Needless to say he and his attorney finally were able to get him to PT for a bit – but the guy needs surgery. They won't even do any more imaging….so unless he pays out of pocket (with what? he's not working….) he gets nothing. Because why? There's no law against being a jerk. And here in Texas, there are no laws requiring employers to have insurance.
So here is an otherwise perfectly healthy 45 year old man, trying to support his family, severely injured at work – but thanks to none of that pesky regulation here in the state of texas to hold down small businesses!, he's going to be a bankrupt, bedridden guy on disability that YOUR tax dollars will pay for.
Isn't Texas great??!!!Apr 10, 2014 at 1:49 pm #2091649
as an employer:
Some kind of workers comp is a good thing. Most of us want to provide for our people, especially when they get hurt on the job. I currently pay $25K a year for this insurance, used to be $120k before w/c reform in CA. These programs tend to get abused for a number of reasons by patients and the medical business. Texas should have a program to cover his care related to the workplace injury and to compensate the employee for lost wages. Just keep the lawyers out.
His employer is a raging ahole. I can't fathom how they sleep at night.
I wonder if there aren't civil damages here. Huge waste of energy and resources to make it happen.
I wonder what the rest of the story is. Hard to phathom this situation with two reasonable parties. Was the employee doing something that he was specifically told not to and therefore has personal responsibility accordding to TX law? I don't know but the whole thing seems weird.Apr 10, 2014 at 1:51 pm #2091652
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I've seen a similar situation or two here in Washington but for other reasons. The part of Washington I live in is Ag based (with the exception of Hanford). I've had an opportunity to meet status challenged aliens who've been severely injured on the job. In one instance, the young lady fell off of an orchard ladder and, like your client, fractured her pelvis among other things. While she had an opportunity to file L&I, her employer told her to hit the bricks or he'd call La Migra on her.
I met her a few years after the injury and she was still walking around with a walker. If memory serves, she was 30 y/o or a bit younger. Obviously this is not so much a government failure as it is greed and other toxic behavior sometimes present in the private sector. It's very easy to get frustrated with the multiple levels of government but the private sector can be just as effed up sometimes, if not more so.
Sorry to hear about your client and I hope he recovers in time.Apr 10, 2014 at 1:52 pm #2091653
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Vinny and Guido (or Lars and Oly) need to pay Mr cheapskate a visit.Apr 10, 2014 at 2:04 pm #2091657
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Jennifer, tough break and I had just assumed workers had to be covered by workman's comp via OSHA, etc…. Whoa, something to check on regardless of the state. Good reminder that private insurers do not cover the work environment tho.
More immediately …
Medically and financially speaking, is there anyway the guy could go across to Mexico to get the surgery? Seriously, that's what my (very Anglo) step-family did in the El Paso region, .. go across to Ciudad Juarez for quality dental, vision, and some surgery* (we are talking Wonderbread Anglo here – border businesses speaks English btw and the docs train in the US). Maybe for oncology I'd stay on the US side but for bone-setting in a non-ER, if uncovered by insurance, I'd make a run for the border (to quote the old TacoBell ad). Set up in San Antonio/Brownsville, El Paso/Las Cruces, Tucson, or San Diego, … get a cheaper passport card and take the bus or cheap cab over.
*Bonus: once across the border, care can't be tracked.Apr 10, 2014 at 2:10 pm #2091660
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"Vinny and Guido (or Lars and Oly) need to pay Mr cheapskate a visit."
Thugs are always a good idea.Apr 10, 2014 at 2:49 pm #2091671
Unfortunately, no test for basic human decency in public or private sector. Some folks get carried away by greed or administrative power.
I'm certain federal workplace laws come in to play here, this guy should call OSHA immediately because it is clearly an unsafe work environment and they might steer him in the right direction re: payment for medical care.
If this is a small business, it sounds very much like they are in financial trouble….likely hasn't paid insurances that most of us wouldn't do business without. The employer is still an ahole……..Apr 10, 2014 at 4:25 pm #2091708
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I wonder if there aren't civil damages here. Huge waste of energy and resources to make it happen.
The phone call to the wife should be treated as a clear message to lawyer up. Just because the business doesn't have insurance, doesn't mean it isn't responsible.Apr 10, 2014 at 7:32 pm #2091778
I asked him today if he got a lawyer; he said he did, and the lawyer told him thanks to the workplace laws here in TX he is screwed. The atty told him he has no real recourse, because the TX legislature didn't want to burden businesses with mandatory workers compensation. There literally is no requirement in this state to provide any coverage for workers on the job.
And now that he doesn't have a job (since he can only walk with a walker), he doesn't even have his regular health insurance anymore. He's applying for obamacare and that may be his only recourse at this point.
I suggested he may just need to run up the bills then file for bankruptcy. At least then he can eventually recovery physically and financially. Now he's got nothing.Apr 10, 2014 at 8:18 pm #2091795
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That's the odd part; from http://www.twc.state.tx.us/news/efte/workers_compensation.html I see item 3:
Being a "non-subscriber", i.e., going "bare" or without coverage, leaves an employer open to personal injury lawsuits from employees who are injured on the job – the damages and attorney's fees are almost unlimited – in addition, certain defenses available in most personal injury lawsuits, such as assumption of the risk, contributory negligence, "last clear chance", and co-worker negligence, are not available to a non-subscriber in a job injury case.
Per that site, compensation (if the employer had subscribed) would normally apply without regard to fault. (I.e. injuries incurred in the normal course of business would also be covered.)
However, it also makes it quite clear that in the absence of coverage the business is /very/ exposed to personal injury claims and the usual defenses wouldn't be available. E.g. If the machinery was improperly secured by the business, that should be sufficient for a claim. Him knowing the danger and choosing to work with it anyway would normally count against him ("assumption of the risk"), but per the above the business would not be able to use it as a defense.
Of course this is in Texas, I'm not a lawyer, and we certainly don't have all the details, so he may just be out of luck.
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Can't you smell the freedom?Apr 11, 2014 at 12:02 pm #2091959
Jeremy – thanks! I'll actually mention that…he's pretty desperate, both physically and financially, so I'll see if he explored that route just yet.
Of course, he may just be focusing on the initial emergency of getting himself treated, but if what you found would apply to him (and why wouldn't it?) then he may have an avenue of some sort.
And yes – I can smell the freedom in this state!!! Rick Perry knows how to do business here!
Woot!Apr 11, 2014 at 3:55 pm #2092031
Jerry AdamsBPL Member
@retiredjerryLocale: Oregon and Washington
If one state, Texas for example, weakens their laws, then businesses will go there.
Then other states will weaken their laws to keep all the businesses from going to Texas.
Employees end up with less protection.
That is a case where a national law would be better. All states "forced" to protect their workers the same.
Yeah, you have to prevent regulations abusive to employers. I don't know how you accomplish that. Maybe congressmen doing their job? Maybe conservatives that are skeptical of the program identifying problems?Apr 11, 2014 at 4:24 pm #2092040
Valerie EBPL Member
@wildtownerLocale: Grand Canyon State
What a sad story — this is why SOME people become lawyers…
Jen, if the machine was not secured properly, that is NEGLIGENCE on the part of the employer. Negligence is not something the employer would be permitted to escape under TX state business laws. Under ANY laws, actually. Only government entities can be excused, by law, from some kinds of negligence.
I think he needs to talk to a Personal Injury lawyer (one that will take the case on contingency). He also needs to get an ACA policy (past the deadline now, but maybe he has a "life event" that would permit him to avoid the deadline?) or consider surgery in Mexico (although if something goes wrong, he will likely be unable to sue for medical negligence – the main reason not to do that!).
I guess as a last-ditch effort, he could go bankrupt… but maybe he could try contacting the local newspaper about his story, and see if that might "light a fire" under his former employer. If he gets publicity, his friends/family might also try to organize a fundraising event (make an appeal to local musicians, etc.). Not the easiest thing to do, but the potential rewards could be significant to ease his situation.
Edited for — gak — typo!Apr 11, 2014 at 4:47 pm #2092052
IanBPL Member
I don't have a JD but that's not passing the sniff test. Could be true but not all attorneys are created equal so could be BS too. If it were me, I'd spend more time researching local attorneys for one who has a solid reputation and get a second opinion before throwing in the towel.Apr 11, 2014 at 6:50 pm #2092107
Lol. Sounds like one side of a story. Working with lawyers and in litigative consulting in TX for almost a decade, I think id have seen this if it was a common problem.
Jennifer, if you hate the business regs so much, I bet you can go work in that paradise that is Chicago….Apr 11, 2014 at 7:29 pm #2092124
Michael, what about this story constitutes "lots of laughs?"
I've only been in TX since September (and I moved from Chicago, by the way…) and I've heard from many folks who've been screwed by no workers compensation. This is just the first case where the guy is pretty much disabled from his injury and his employer is not at all being cooperative.Apr 11, 2014 at 9:27 pm #2092167
Its laugh out loud. You are hearing one side of disgruntled injured people. You have been in state half a year – a state that weathered the recession and has a booming economy compared to the rest of the nation – and your bitching and criticizing something you obviously dont have a good grasp of.
Not having workers comp doesnt keep the employer from obligations.
Im also not buying any decent an insurance policy not paying for treatment. I was injured in Texas and they never even asked if it was at work. They paidd the ER visit and PT. The workers comp is for time off or if you cant keep working.
I guess you prefer the work environment in Chicago? IF you have a job there at least you can have workers compmI guess.Apr 12, 2014 at 10:52 am #2092278
Michael, I deal with workers compensation all the time. No, it is NOT just for time off – it is the insurance that pays for your medical care. And no insurance company will pay for such things if it is a work-related injury – they may pay in the beginning, but they will try to recoup the payout.
Workers Compensation is who pays me when I treat patients injured at work.
And I didn't say I preferred the work environment in Chicago – I just think the constant preference to employERs over the employEEs in terms of tax and regulation policy is misguided. I mean, when corporate profits are at record highs yet employee compensation has been flat since the 80s – there's a serious problem with that.Apr 12, 2014 at 11:02 am #2092279
You can make all kinds of accusations that I don't know what I'm talking about because I've been in TX for 8 months, but what I see in front of me is a guy who was injured at work, seriously, and no one will pay for his treatment. Texas is a "right to work" state, which means, ironically enough, that he has the right to lose his job when he is injured and can no longer perform it.
Not only are we (and his other physicians) being denied for every single intervention we are trying to get for this guy, but now he has the right to be fired (no cause needed here in TX!) and can't even pay out of pocket for it.
I don't care what the employer's side of the story is – i have a guy with a pelvic fracture and we cannot get services paid for. Simple. And trust me, his entire medical team is working REALLY hard to get paid…it's just not happening.
And there is PLENTY written about how the "texas miracle" is a sham:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-texas-miracle/Apr 12, 2014 at 11:39 am #2092284
this guy should get a better lawyer, he may be giving up too easy, or he may have told the lawyer the rest of the story. His medical insurance should cover him and attempt to recover from the employer or his liability insurance carrier. in every state every insurance company will attempt to collect from some other responsible party, keeps profits higher.
as a wacko anti government type even I think some type of W/C laws make sense. I won't hire a contractor to do anything at my business or home unless the can prove W/C coverage.Apr 12, 2014 at 11:46 am #2092286
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@retiredjerryLocale: Oregon and Washington
Good links Jennifer, for example:
"Texas has an inordinate number of employers who provide no insurance to their workers, partly because insurance rates are high, thanks to an absence of regulations."Apr 12, 2014 at 12:46 pm #2092299
"And there is PLENTY written about how the "Texas miracle" is a sham"
Wow. you are killing me her. I am actually laughing now. You post two links to left wing Washington opinion pieces. One of which is from 3 years ago. (Texas's economy is still improving while Illinois and Chicago is languishing).
I like how the authors criticize Texas for attracting businesses. Those businesses mean jobs. But no, I'm sure you would rather create higher paying jobs for a few with higher unemployment for all.
Then you post another link to data I have a MUCH better handle on than you.
I'll help you:
Texas is 35 in jobs per 100 residents: Texas has a high number of retirees. I'd look for other warm weather states that attract retirees for similar numbers.
40 counties have higher unemployment than the US average: That means that 214 have the same or lower. That is actually a great stat. Only 15% of Texas counties are worse than the national average.
I can go on…
Also as to your sad story of woe for this man. Right after the injury he could have gone to the ER. His insurance might have tried to get the money from his employer. But he would have received care, correct?
I know what workers comp is for Jennifer. I am saying that the insurance companies fight over who has to pay. But the part that is clearly for him that isn't covered by his own policy is the time off etc.
The fact is, he has the option to seek damages in court. If it is as obvious as you act, the lawyer wouldn't be telling him he has no case. I don't doubt he needs medical treatment, but liability is obviously in question.Apr 12, 2014 at 1:39 pm #2092306
Katharina LångstrumpBPL Member
@kat_pLocale: Pacific Coast
Regulate big industries, I have no problem with that.
Have you ever lived in a country where every business, small and large was heavily regulated?
I have. (Health care was free and universal so that was not an issue when doing business. )
Here are a couple of examples of what I experienced:
No incentive at all to open a business. In fact, in the city of Florence Italy, unless you had owned your business for a long time or unless you "befriended" the Finance Police, hardly any new businesses were allowed. Taxi cabs….only a certain number allowed to operate, otherwise the competition, you know….so rates were ungodly and corruption to get/ inherit a lincese was rampant.
Same with bakeries, butchers etc. only a certain number allowed. Prices went up etc.
When I lived there we still lived in an era that had to counterbalance the fascist experience. Unions ruled the country. The good thing (…..) was that every job, including making coffee at a little shop became a lifetime job with great benefits, union protection to the point that you could not get laid off unless there was a bankrupcy. Everyone got the whole month of August off as paid vacation, prepaid and double paid. December was double paid as well. 14 months pay per year. Call in sick? As long as you are home between noon and one, you can do whatever you like. No limits to sick time. The bad part was…no jobs. Hiring someone was such a burden that people only hired family or someone connected. They could not lay people off so they did not want to hire them. I was a teenager at the time and myself and many more in their twenties and thirties would have been extatic to get a job for less than a wage that supported a whole family. We would gladly have worked through the summer. Unemployment was almost 20% and among young people over 60%. Even graduates could not find jobs; architects had to be accepted by the Guild and they only allowed a few per year ( which would go to family members or in exchange for bribes etc…) . Same with doctors and lawyers.
My parents owned a business with 17 employees. After the 1995 terrorist attacks in the Rome airport, the wealthy tourists skipped visitng Italy and my father lost enough business that he had to keep borrowing money to make payroll, because he could not lay anyone off. We secretly moved into the office since we could not afford to rent our apartment any longer. My parents were still hoping to get the business going again, so we had to look professional and appear to still have a home and not just bunk in the spare rooms. Meantime the Finance Police kept showing up more often, with friends, to pick up leather jackets and what not- in exchange for a 24 hour warning should we be "selected" for an Italian style audit. That meant they lock your business, seal the doors and you are not allowed in until they have gone through any papers, or anything else they want.
Walk out of a coffee shop and you better kept the receipt or you would get fined.
Road blocks at the exit of toll highways where the Finance Police would check that even a bag of concrete had to have extensive paperwork to go with it. No I am not exaggerating; I am not talking about a semi truck that had to have proper documentation. If you bought a pair of shoes you had to travel with the paperwork and keep it.
I will spare you more of the painful couple of years, but toward the end ( bankrupcy- which was a crime in Italy) I worked under the table for a summer and made enough to give my parents half of what I made, buy a one way ticket to San Francisco and have two hundred dollars in my pocket.
That is how I came here. I did not have family here, I spoke the language pretty well. I had never been on my own.
I first worked for an old Italian fisherman and restaurant owner . I eventually got my green card.
The fact that I have lived in such a heavily regulated country, where I experienced the good and the bad, and the fact that I whole heartedly think that one should not make small businesses impossible to operate, does not mean that I think people should get screwed over. I repeat, I am not ok with people getting screwed over in the name of greed. It also does not mean that Jerry, Jennifer and the one that called for "union thugs" get to offend me, imply that they are better than me because they "care more" about the poor. I disagree with how we get to where people are doing better. You can argue with me, but lose that sense of "I am affiliated with a more caring group so I get to offend, dismiss, attack, silence those that are below me on the caring scale". We know very little of one another's offline lives. Pontificating on here does not say a thing about who we are in real life.
Edited to add that I was 19 when I moved here.
Also…..I love when people post pictures of my native Switzerland and how thick all the vegetable gardens are even in between apartment complexes, front yards etc…..and I loved it there. What some don't realize is that could never happen in our towns. Many towns have regulations that do not even allow fruit trees in the front yard.Apr 12, 2014 at 3:01 pm #2092326
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Since you think Texas is an illusion, move to Wisconsin. Scott Walker and team are kicking bootie.
Remember all the horror stories and protests, the budgets are balanced and taxes are being returned to their rightful owners, the people, Kinda hurts to read that,,,,
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