November
2009
And Some Pictures1
Please do read the latest insurance saga below, if only to see a concrete example of the kind of mess private companies have made of complex health care. Honestly, for healthy people, it’s not going to make much of a difference if the health care system is private or public: no one is suggesting physicals and routine things like that will be eliminated. Where the streamlining and improvement will be is in chronic, long-term care. These are the cases that sap profits, because they aren’t one shot deals, they are continuing bills over an indefinite period of time. And these are exactly the cases that private companies try desperately to avoid, by using every trick in their arsenal to get out of paying and dump the costs onto families who are already stretched to the limit trying to coordinate care through five or six different organizations on top of dealing with a medically complex relative.
But also, some pictures I uploaded shortly after Bob’s last post, but then didn’t ever share here.
Ooh. A new shiny toy!
Head Butt!
Go me, I knocked it over!
Let’s try that again
Hey, there’s a phone, too
Do the Dew.
(November 14th, 2009 at 10:50 PM)