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It's all well and good to discuss to these statagies, but I worry that this sends the message that the current situation can be fixed by simply by teaching people to use facebook or linkedin.  The problem we face is there are simply more people looking for jobs then there are openings.  For every individual that is succesful in finding a job there will be 4-5 others that aren't.  No individual job hunting statagy is going to change that.

posted 2 years, 2 months ago
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A couple of points:

First:

Some 35 to 40% of biomedical research is underwritten by the federal government, and anoth 10 to 15% comes from charitable organizations, so the idea that insurers (single payer or otherwise) need to cover potentially useless or dangerous devices/drugs to ensure inovation is dubious.

Second:

An insurer (government single payer or private) not covering a particular procedure when it is availble for cash paying patients or patients with suplemental plans is not the same thing as rationing. If it were then healthcare has always been rationed. The use of the term "rationing" is a scare tactic used by critics of much need health care reform.

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Could your guests please comment on what role the U.S. war in Indochina had in creating the circumstances that lead to the rise of the Khmer Rouge.  Ultimately the Khmer Rouge is responsible for their action, however I think it is important for people to understand that war can have unintended consequences, and those consequences can be very grave.

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Certainly this is an important issue, but I find the intensity of the coverage a bit strange when compared to the coverage of the most recent Mexican elections (not to mention the previous Salinas election) where there was actual evidence of fraud that could have changed the outcome.  

posted 4 years ago
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