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If I heard the story correctly, it was that doctors get paid by the procedures they do. And they bill insurance companies with codes for those procedures. But the codes for each procedure are DIFFERENT for each insurer. And there are code changes and additions and deletions all the time. The story mentioned a doctor who had a partner in private practice, and their office employed FOUR medical billers to keep up with the codes. It does sound like a national level standard/system would help a lot. Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi
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It's been on the radio for like 10 years. I can't stand the TV version. Have only seen a couple episodes, though. Go to ThisAmericanLife.com and START LISTENING. (unqueue it from your Netflix) Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi
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SQIRREL COP was AWESOME. They brought him back later in another episode - can't recall which. (Found it: "No Map" 5.15.09) And me, too. Commuting to This American Life makes me hate my life (commuting) just a little less. Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi
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Here are some incredible episodes. The housing and credit crisis explained, in just 59 minutes. Giant Pool of Money The collapse of the banking system explained, in just 59 minutes. Bad Bank Where were the regulators and watchdogs who were supposed to be overseeing the banks and the finance industry? The Watchmen What happened the first week of October, 2008, including what regulators could've done to prevent the financial crisis from happening in the first place. Another Frightening Show About The Economy Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi
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Have heard Pen Pal - loved it. Going to get 'Should I Stay or Should I Go' tomorrow. :) One of my faves - and I can't recall which episode it was - was right after 9/11. Basically stories on "arab" (perceived arab) people in america. The one I remember most is a hindu little girl in New Jersey who had to change schools. Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi
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BTW, 7.17.09: The Fear of Sleep is great entertainment. The Mike Birbiglia tale is amazing. I laughed out loud in my car. :) Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi
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No! Go to the link and listen to the podcasts...the radio versions are FAR superior. Ira Glass is my boyfriend (not really, but he's great). Every weekly episode is FREE to iTunes if you subscribe. And you can purchase the old podcasts to iTunes for .99 each and listen anytime. (or just listen online to any episode for free). I think you'd love it. Each week they pick a theme and do variations on that theme (anywhere from 1 to 4 "acts"). David Sedaris is a regular contributor. It's informative, entertaining...Listen to 3 full episodes before you decide if you like it - they are all so different -everything from kids leaving a man to die in a well, to the real guy and his story behind the The Informant, to the cryogenics fiasco where they ended up stuffing 3 or 4 dead bodies in one chamber, to an analysis of the economic meltdown. I really wish more people listened to this kind of news and story than the screaming hateful exploitative crap on TV. Again, I think you'll like it. :) Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi
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This American Life is amazing. This week is the second show of 2 on the issue of health care. If you don't already tune in, you can listen to free podcasts (Someone Else's Money and More is Less are the 2 I'm talking about) on their website. But every single episode of that show is worth listening to. Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi
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Fathers with 8th grade educations...
freeflybella replied to StreetScooby's topic in Speakers Corner
I heard this episode. Amazing. Baby College - such a great idea. President Obama promised to replicate this incredible program in 20 cities across the country and has begun the process. "$10.0 million for the Promise Neighborhoods initiative to provide 1-year planning grants to non-profit, community-based organizations to enable them to develop plans and establish partnerships for the development of comprehensive neighborhood programs for children and youth, from birth through college, to help them succeed in education and life. -Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Summary — May 7, 2009" Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi -
Totally a clumsy and pretty worthless post on my part. (Looking for the re-do button) I have real questions regarding Ayn Rand, objectivism and how it relates to capitalism and progress and religion, and conservatives in America and society. But my head exploded when someone (important) in my life made a reference to "real Americans" - and when I questioned what a real american is, he responded: "A real American is a person who understands all these things. 1. A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. 2. We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. 3. Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. 4. Do not ever say that the desire to “do good” by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. 5. From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man – the function of his reasoning mind. 6. Government “help” to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. 7. I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. 8. Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). 9. It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. 10. Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. 11. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. 12. Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started. Just paying the bills... 13. People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk. 14. Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. 15. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. 16. The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. 17. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws 18. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. 19. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. 20. There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. 21. There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. 22. Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves – or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. 23. When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. 24. Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think. 25. The most depraved type of human being is the man without a purpose, the welfare man, the man who never held a job. Courtesy of Aynn Rand." This person left law school to go to vietnam, became a career officer in the army (retired a colonel), cheated on his wife/family for 25 years, and now is addicted to prescription pain killers. Never went to church, never volunteered or gave to charity, doesn't even know what his grown kids do for a living. A cloud of narcissism follows him and this list of what a REAL american is, seems like an extension of it. Not expecting anyone to respond. Just wanted to explain my lame post. Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi
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Anyone read the TIME article? A dollar sign label pin? A 19 year affair with permission from S.O's to meet for sex twice a week? Logic always trumps emotion (until Nathaniel admits to affair and then she dissolves all ties to him?). Kind of a blueprint for "conservative" "values"...no? Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi
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Is Obama Loosing Ground/ This ain't FOX NEWS
freeflybella replied to rickjump1's topic in Speakers Corner
If a bunch of dz.com speaker's corners posters knew the IOC would never choose Chicago, don't you think maybe Obama knew it too? He couldn't NOT go. He couldn't spend days there putting on a dog and pony show knowing it wasn't the right venue - and then 'lose' it. Looks like he made the right move. He went, he made his case and he graciously called Brasil. Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi -
Where? What? He said Wilson's outburst to Obama was "rooted in racism" "ATLANTA (AP) -- Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst to President Barack Obama during a speech to Congress last week was an act "based on racism" and rooted in fears of a black president. "I think it's based on racism," Carter said at a town hall held at his presidential center in Atlanta. "There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president." Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi
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Vile. Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi
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Americans Buy Over One Million Guns In August
freeflybella replied to JohnRich's topic in Speakers Corner
C'mon now..."In The Service" is a whole 'nother discussion. Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi -
Americans Buy Over One Million Guns In August
freeflybella replied to JohnRich's topic in Speakers Corner
If you look at his history as an organizer and politician, you'll see that the idea comes directly from himself. And then when you look at the czars with which he has surrounded himself, and their histories, it becomes even more scary. Try Cass Sustein for the latest such example. He's as anti-gun as they get, and he's now in charge of "regulations". No, it's not the gun owners who are paranoid, nor the manufacturers using clever marketing. It's just Obama being himself. Cass Sustein? You mean the LATEST glenn beck target? I don't get the gun-thing. How many of you gun-guys have actually used a gun in self-defense? And how many non-gun guys have wished they had guns to use in violent self-defense situations? Maybe it's just me - in the crime-ridden city of heathens. But it seems the small-town, family-values, heartbeat of America folks are the ones who feel they need them the most? Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi -
The 17 million were non-legal aliens. He adjusted the number because the bill would not cover them. Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi
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Curious why job is in quotes? Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi
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"But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life – what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you’ve got going on at home – that’s no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude. That’s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That’s no excuse for not trying." Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi
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The involved parents, the ones who care and take care of their children and oversee their education should have the right to decide if their kid sees/hears this speech. The kids IMHO who will benefit the most from hearing this speech are the high(er)-risk kids in lower income families, with parents who work 2 or 3 jobs, with parents who don't place any importance on education (for whatever reason) and any other kid who's parent(s) may not be as involved as you or I. Your assertion that it's too long or too complicated for the audience is WHY they prepared lesson suggestions for teachers around the topics in the speech - to aid and guide teachers. It actually makes me sick to know that entire counties are not showing the speech. It's a lost opportunity to have someone who has risen from being a HIGH-RISK kid - through education - to become the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES speak directly to other high-risk kids and set the most glowing of examples. Fucking sick. Even worse, knowing the dropout rates in this country. Education is self-esteem. Education is courage. Education is a tool to build a better life. Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi
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HE'S THE PRESIDENT. Using the word I and You means he's speaking directly to the kids. It's a powerful and empowering thing (regardless of political buffoonery) to have the President speak directly to you. Especially to kids. Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi
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While reading posts on SC tonight, I was reminded of this skit I heard on 'This American Life'. Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi
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+1 Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi
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WTF? Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi
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??????!!!!!!!! He molested children. That's not "some bad things". I mourned MJ 20 years ago when it became apparent he wouldn't transcend his own messed up childhood. Action expresses priority. - Mahatma Ghandi