Tag Archives: healthcare

The Chargemaster

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Jim Wheeler

One of the several magazines I subscribe to is Time. It’s skinnier than it used to be and it doesn’t provide as extensive a coverage of the nation’s culture as it used to aspire doing, but it does produce writing … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Fried Chicken

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Jim Wheeler

As fellow blogger Pied Type noted this morning, NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg has done a significant thing by banning sugary drink sizes larger than 16 ounces. Pied Type doesn’t like this interference in private affairs at all.  I for one … Continue reading →

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China Redux?

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Jim Wheeler

A major meme driving conservatives’ disparagement, nay hatred, of Obamacare, is that it is a socialistic approach to medicine, something that is ruining “the greatest healthcare system in the world” by turning competitive businesses (the medical industrial complex) into a … Continue reading →

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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Jim Wheeler

If you want to tick off an American, any American, young, old, male, female, just try ordering them around. Want to see real anger? Pass a law telling them what they have to buy. mandate noun 1. an official order … Continue reading →

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