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Classic ET. Personally I can't see why Don would want the hassle but given that he enjoys teaching I can certainly understand why he is making sure that the bar for inclusion is high enough to weed out all but the serious.

While you are correct that the quality of care in the US is the best in the world for a country of any significant size, it is disappointing to see the perpetuation of the myth that cutting costs in our bloated healthcare system necessarily means cutting care and quality of that care, and by a...

And what does that oft touted list even mean? Italy is number 2 for goodness sakes! In Italy we have an expression, "You go in with one illness, you come out with 2". Most older people avoid hospitals like the plague as the feeling is that once you go in you won't be coming out alive. In...

Nice call BLB. Seeing AAPL stall out today, amongst other things, gave me the courage to finally put out an NQ short ahead of Mr Softie's call. Was pleased to see that you were of like mind, and then to see MSFT's earnings :) Have been lurking following your journal, one of the only ones...

AMA and ACP are nothing like Trade Unions at least in the way a trade union is normally defined (terms come from the UK). AMA certainly advocates for a specialist rich system and the ACP is a better advocate for a PCP led system. The only path to meaningful health care reform that I can see...

Thanks for the review RunningBear. After using esignal for almost 10 years the last straw was when (I think it was around version 8.X) I realized that esignal was often a half second or more behind other charting packages like ones based on the zenfire data feed. Are you saying that this lag has...

A choice? Riiight. Because all the Brits have the 20K a week that it costs to get care on the Linden ward, the private wing of St Mary's. Unfortunately my grandmother who recovered there was first seen for stroke like symptom under the national health A&E. She was put in a corridor and sat...

It worse than the MBA infestation we had with Bush, now the the advanced degrees in Economics have taken over and they are a far more dangerous vermin. The horror!

Given the money that is spent on healthcare in this country it is a crying shame that everyone is not covered whether it is a right or not. Obama is creating a massive new government initiative that is simply increasing costs to everyone to pay for a bunch of new bureaucrats nosing in on...

There is no comparison between UK free care and that provided to someone with good insurance in the US. For a start many of the more sophisticated and highly effective drugs that have been developed in the last 10 years and that are widely used in the US will not be available to patients in the...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-jon-lapook/my-interview-with-preside_b_236691.html "I've been persuaded that there are enough young uninsured people who are cheap to cover, but are opting out. To make sure that those folks are part of the overall pool is the best way to make sure that all of...

Insider trading is not illegal if its done with the collusion and sanction of government officials. The anger at GS is misdirected, they were able to bamboozle both Bush and Obama and work the system just like any other corporate entity trys to do. Our representatives in congress and the...

I agree. There is a gulf between what Dell sees and INTC sees. Dell is closer to the ground and INTC are masters of manipulating inventory and earnings.

Aww, Whisky, the fantasy is so much more entertaining than reality, why such a kill joy? :D

Refreshing to see someone on here who actually knows what they are talking about. Indeed, it is medicare fraud if you underbill medicare for a procedure or visit just as it is if you overbill.

ET is barely a cut above Jerry Springer when the subject deviates from trading (and sometimes when it is on topic). With the chips falling off people's shoulders in this thread I could go to Vegas and start up a casino! I find it amusing that while most of you are unable to succeed at your own...

GS was an easy $4-5 short off the 150 level for a short swing but you have to be willing to gamble on poor odds to get in heavy right before earnings and before 137 is taken out and confirms that doubletop.

She is among more than 4 million Americans who have been looking for work for more than 26 weeks, representing 29 percent of the unemployed, the most since records began in 1948. http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a00_1SlKgIwo

Other physicians find that if they don’t take insurance, they can cut their overhead, and actually charge patients less. http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/07/doctors-who-don.html

Single payer government healthcare is the ideal unless your government is so corrupted by special interests that you can not trust it to act in the best interests of its citizenry.