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Open thread March 25, 2014

Dan Crawford | March 25, 2014 3:19 pm

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  • save_the_rustbelt says:
    March 25, 2014 at 4:59 pm

    The quality of the US health care system has deteriorated a bit.

    Sunday at the end of the evening shift Mrs. Rustbelt RN hung up her stethoscope after a distinguished career, much of it in the difficult long-term care sector.

    The physical and emotional stress had built up, and the special quirks of long-term care (hyper-regulation, multi-redundant documentation, the constant threat of punishment by the government, etc.) began to wear on her. A new EMR system was really the final straw.

    Mrs. R has been assaulted by patients three times in the past six weeks, once on her last shift, which is nothing new but is becoming more frequent (long story). Imagine a job where being attacked requires a calm and compassionate response.

    Her employer and her colleagues tried begging, her residents tried crying, but other than covering for a staff medical leave in late April I think she is finished.

    Fortunately for the rest of us, such people still exist.

    • run75441 says:
      March 25, 2014 at 5:29 pm

      STR:

      I can imagine it can wear on one. Best of luck and pour another round.

  • Denis Drew says:
    March 25, 2014 at 5:03 pm

    Obama-doesn’t-care: new “My Brother’s Keeper” program targets $350 million dollars on poverty — 1/48,000 of our $16 trillion GDP …

    .. or $50 million less than recent NY Mayor Mike Bloomberg spent building a (completely unnecessary) new courthouse in the Bronx in 2004 (the “old” 1939 building was modern and pristine inside and out — a new building was built in 1976 for the crime wave overflow, which by 2004 down 75%) … and almost $300 million less than building a new (presumably) equally unneeded courthouse in Brooklyn.
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    WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR VEHICLE’S ENGINE STARTS TO RUNAWAY UNCONTROLLABLY: turn the ignition key to off.
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    Click on: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/03/obamacare-discriminates-poor-people-cancer-obamas-lying.html

    “The results were bleak—just two-thirds of the overall respondents knew that they had to get health insurance this month or face a penalty. Just over half knew about the exchanges to buy health insurance through Healthcare.gov, and less than half knew there might be subsidies available to help them afford coverage.And less than a third knew about the finer points of the law, like the fact that plans must now offer certain required benefits or that people cannot be denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions.”

  • Denis Drew says:
    March 25, 2014 at 5:48 pm

    SEE ALSO:

    http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/a-question-of-whats-a-reasonable-reward/?ref=business

    “Doing a little quick math, the analyst determined that the company planned to award stock worth about $13 billion to its senior managers over the next four years, based on the company’s current stock price. Getting out his calculator, the analyst estimated that between the proposed compensation plan and a previous plan, the company had allocated as much as $24 billion toward stock-based rewards for its senior people.

    “ ‘I just couldn’t believe it,” said Mr. Winters, a longtime Coco-Cola shareholder with about 2.5 million of the company’s shares in his fund. “I was so stunned.’ ”

  • Mike Meyer says:
    March 25, 2014 at 10:23 pm

    I used to stretch Coca-Cola bottles
    (One can still buy them online)
    In carnivals, circuses, lodges and fire halls
    The People bought them, just fine
    But then one day the lawyers came
    And said they would have my ass
    It seems I had committed a terrible crime
    By burning Coca-Cola’s glass
    But the circus left town and so did I
    And I continued on cooking my art
    ‘Til one day plastic bottles came out
    And blew my game apart

  • Anna Lee says:
    March 26, 2014 at 12:42 pm

    I apoligize in advance if the following question makes no sense to anyone. This question is for those who know a bit about economic modeling in general.

    I was thinking about economic models and, because I see simple models as a way to help think about something such as considering a point charge in space, I couldn’t help wondering how economics considers productivity increases under resource depletion and whether a model can impose a hypothetical replacement material or technology in such a way that the cost/benefit of early funding of research can be estimated/demonstrated/supported.

  • Denis Drew says:
    March 26, 2014 at 3:28 pm

    My Ph.D. is in cab driving (NY, Chi, SF) but I saw this the other day:

    “A grand unified theory of behavioral economics?”

    http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-grand-unified-theory-of-behavioral.html

  • EMichael says:
    March 27, 2014 at 9:52 am

    The ACA just had its fourth birthday.

    Congratulations!

    Private QHPs (5.35M – 6.56M) • Medicaid/CHIP (4.62M – 6.40M) • Sub26ers (2.50M – 3.10M)

    Grand Total as of March 26, 2014: (12.4 M – 16.0 M)

    Enrollment Period Elapsed: 96.7% • Est. % of CBO QHP Projection: 84.9% (or 99.0%)

    Exchange-Based QHP Projection: Total: 6.39M

    (OFF-Exchange QHPs are at least 558K, more likely 4M or more nationally)

    Estimated Total Exchange-Based QHPs as of 3/26: 5.94M
    (should hit 6 Million sometime Friday, possibly even Thursday?)

    http://acasignups.net/

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