Continuing on yesterday’s topic from Alex…

As Americans debate “Health Care Reform” there is a lot of misinformation out there regarding what the Obama administration is proposing. Just watch Fox News for any length of time and you’ll hear plenty. But I just read a Yahoo! News article that shows what the public believes versus what the administration states their goals are.
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Came across two articles today that friends had posted to their Facebook pages¹, and I thought I’d share. Here are some relevant quotationals:

“You can feel grateful for the protection currently offered by Medicare (or by private insurance) only if you don’t realize how much you truly spend to fund this system over your lifetime, and if you believe you’re getting good care in return.”

Full article here.

“In terms of finance, we force 700,000 Americans into bankruptcy each year because of medical bills. In France, the number of medical bankruptcies is zero. Britain: zero. Japan: zero. Germany: zero.”

Full article here.

It seems obvious to me that there aren’t going to be any simple answers when it comes to Health Care Reform, which means that the cynic in me doubts we’ll get good reform, since our entire culture is geared towards the simple answer… but maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised. And if any of you who work in the health care industry want to weigh in, please do.

Came across a good blog post today from the President of Reuters, Chris Ahearn. Essentially his point is that he thinks we should all be civil with one another’s content, and cite each other with links, rather than quoting long stretches, or entire articles, even with attribution. It’s something that I’ve always tried to do here, so it’s refreshing to see from one of the larger news corporations out there, especially in light of recent developments with the AP, and Rupert (Yarrrr!) Murdoch’s soon to be pay-only empire.

So I think it’s safe to say we know which company’s news articles I’ll be linking to in the future. Congratulations Reuters, on ‘getting it’.

Hat tip to Daring Fireball (a good daily read if you want tech news, albeit opinionated) for two of the three links herein.

Minnesota was the latest state to implement a law that allows police officers to pull you over for not wearing your seatbelt. This may seem odd to some as there has been a seatbelt law on the books for several years now.
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I use that inflammatory word because when I first read about this story in February it made my blood boil. It pretty much sums up how I feel about police officers.

However, here is the follow-up on that story: State trooper wrong; driver cleared
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