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Monday, March 8th, 2010
The United States of America enjoys many riches, inherent capabilities and positive attributes, as well as shortcomings, unresolved issues and a converging set of existential threats.
The challenge is to be aware of the upsides of the United States without becoming defiantly hostile to any discussion of specific shortcomings or ways ...
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010
“…our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are … testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.” – Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
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The United States ...
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
In the posts Show Me Your Budget and Buying Boxes I addressed the components and priorities of the United States government budget and how we as a nation pay for that budget. What I did not address are the components of that budget that are on rapid growth curves and ...
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
In the post Show Me Your Budget, I addressed the U.S. federal budget via an illustration that used proportionally sized boxes to reflect spending priorities. What I didn’t cover was how we pay for those boxes, both the overall box of the entire budget, as well as its constituent departments ...
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
In my book, How The World Works, entry 512 is Priorities vs. Budgets.
It reads:
“As a business management consultant I heard a lot about priorities. In the introductory meeting and group management team interviews, senior executives would drone on endlessly about the organization’s priorities. Top priority this and critical priority that; it ...
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
The web site pagetutor.com put up an excellent illustration of what 1 trillion dollars looks like. The original site is here: http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html
I excerpted the post here to help illustrate how much the United States spends on health care.
What does one TRILLION dollars look like?
We'll start with a $100 dollar bill, currently the ...
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
What drives the rapidly escalating increases for the cost of health care in the United States?
The following are the views of one PhD on that topic.
Key excerpts:
80% of total health care spending linked to chronically ill patients
Rise in obesity prevalence in the US accounted for 27% of the growth in ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
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There are a plethora of plans and proposals for the reform of the U.S. health care system being promoted by every imaginable interest group, vested interest and limelight seeking politician.
I have gathered a few repsentative samples here to give you an idea of what is being offered. It is very ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
A PDF file version of this post is available here: http://www.hackneys.com/docs/healthcarereformfaq.pdf
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Q: Why should I care about health care system reform in the United States?
A: Because:
The nation can no longer afford the current system, not on an individual, family, business, state or national level. Left unchecked, health care system spending will reach ...
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
I was recently asked by our friend, Gary DuBois, to join a conversation of Americans, ex-patriots and citizens of other countries about the state of the health care system in the United States and prospects for meaningful reform. Gary asked me to participate based on my work in the health ...
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