I’ve been criticized lately for my views on the healthcare debate, but I think I’ve shared them fully with only two people. I guess I have the option to public them. Medicare pays 85 cents on the dollar. Medicaid 65. A lot of doctors won’t even accept Medicaid because they lose so much on patients with it. So doctors and hospitals raise the price for everyone else to try to make up for it. And then, of course, there are all the completely uninsured who show up at emergency rooms and have to be treated for absolutely free, by law.…
Casper Every weekend, when I don’t have to work, I look to see where Berck is flying to, if he has a long “overnight”, and if there are any seats to and from such place. I’d finally just about caught up on the week I took off to go to the beach this month, so I thought I’d have time. Berck would be working an early morning and ending up in Casper, WY around 9 a.m, then fly back out first thing Sunday morning. I checked the seat maps on United.com, but they said they were unavailable. In the past…
I just read Julie & Julia. I enjoyed it, though it’d be hard to say if I did so because it has any particular merit, or because I understand. For some reason, us humans like things we can relate to, and I can relate to an attempt to cook every recipe in Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Back when we lived in Oklahoma, I considered trying to cook everything in Marcela Harzan’s The Classic Italian Cookbook. I know the feeling of frustration Julie describes. As I tried to simply flip gnocchi off the back of a fork or stuff…