Chaos and Organization in Health Care:

This is from a review by Joseph Rago of Chaos and Organization in Health Care:

Medicare recipients, on average, see seven doctors; patients with coronary artery disease see 10; those with lung cancer, 11. Usually these doctors don’t work together or even coordinate their care, resulting in errors, waste and a lower quality of treatment.

The Constitutionalist

Hi Everyone- Exciting news!!!....we are publishing Colorado Springs' (and surrounding areas) first conservative voice newspaper.  It has come to our attention over and over again and we have decided to proceed.  We will not be "the fair voice" nor will we be the "balanced" paper.  We are going to bring the truth, the facts and we will be the "tell all" on this administration and what is happening in our country. Our monthly newspaper will be called, "The Constitutionalist" and will be distributed all over El Paso, Teller and South Douglas County. Please come to a meeting of the minds on Monday, the 26th of October at Pikes Perk on Vickers and Academy at 10am for brain-storming ideas.  I have emailed all those I think would be contributors and please feel free to bring anybody you think would be an asset to this cause. Email me or call me with any questions you may have before then, otherwise we will see you then! Lana Fore-Warkocz Publisher The Constitutionalist 719.287.8890 lanafore@aol.com

one-liner of the week

"We should stop comparing Obama to Hitler.

Hitler got the Olympics to come to Berlin."

Captain Sullenberger III

"We need to try to do the right thing every time, to perform at our best, because we never know what moment in our lives we'll be judged on."  Chesley B. Sullenberger III

Quote of the Day

Oct 13, 2009
by John Goodman

I don’t believe that we can force vulnerable kids into private coverage. That’s what we’d be doing. They’d lose that special kind of defined benefit that comes under Medicaid…You cannot do that. They have requirements that you have to meet and can only be met through Medicaid, not in the exchange, where they’re at the mercy of people that will have them for lunch…

— Sen. Jay Rockefeller

Personally, I think Sen. Rockefeller’s health is also too important to be left to the private marketplace. Let’s enroll him in Medicaid.

America's Ten questions about Health Care reform

Quote of the Day

Sickness, poverty, and obesity are spun together in a dense web of reciprocal causality. Anyone who’s fat is more likely to be poor and sick. Anyone who’s poor is more likely to be fat and sick. And anyone who’s sick is more likely to be poor and fat.

       — Daniel Engber in Slate