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12 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - U.S. reveals more seri... · 0 replies · +5 points

Power will always be abused. The key is oversight and catching them, hopefully in a timely fashion. With consequences.

12 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Pressure builds for ci... · 5 replies · +3 points

Where do I stand when one hovers 30 feet over my deck and I shoot it down?

12 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Gingrich wins South Ca... · 5 replies · -3 points

You certainly write a LOT of extraneous of crap into a small simple question without coming anywhere near addressing the question.

12 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Gingrich wins South Ca... · 0 replies · +12 points

exactly.

12 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Gingrich wins South Ca... · 36 replies · +3 points

Does that cancel out and excuse Newts serial adultery?

12 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Fiery debate tops biza... · 0 replies · +16 points

Interesting to see Newt denounce the campaign strategy that he pioneered and raised to astounding lows. Rank hypocrisy is not an attribute that I would consider good for a president. But then, America's political memory is poor at best.

12 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Kitzhaber calls for he... · 2 replies · +10 points

I think you are looking at this incorrectly. You almost certainly got an education paid for by all of society. Now it's your turn to pay - not because you do or don't have kids.

I don't have kids in school anymore, but as someone on the cusp of retirement, I certainly have an interest in educated citizens running the economy and providing health care. I'll continue to pay my part in trying to help that happen.

13 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Feds throw obstacle at... · 1 reply · +2 points

The first also says interesting things that are not frivolous:
“Many of the current tort reform initiatives, such as caps on noneconomic damages, are motivated by a perception that ‘jackpot’ awards in frivolous suits are draining the system,” explained Michelle Mello, an associate professor of health policy and law at HSPH and a co-author of the study. “But nearly 80% of the administrative costs of the malpractice system are tied to resolving claims that have merit. Finding ways to streamline the lengthy and costly processing of meritorious claims should be in the bullseye of reform efforts.”

The authors also found that it took an average of five years from injury to resolution of the claim—a long time for plaintiffs to wait for compensation and for defendants to endure the uncertainty that litigation entails.

An average of 195,000 people in the USA died due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002. Solving that problem would be the best way to start reducing lawsuits and injuries. If that many people died in a year from terrorism we'd all be cowering under our beds. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/11856.ph...

It might also help if the medical establishment made some effort to get rid of their bad actors, such as Patel.

13 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Feds throw obstacle at... · 3 replies · +2 points

Like most things in life, it's more complicated than talking points and most people are more interested in talking points than reality:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/2... http://www.medpac.gov/documents/Apr10_MedicalMalp...

13 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Can\'t stop smoking? O... · 0 replies · +6 points

I also went in short order from thinking at 16 that only an idiot would smoke to being a cool smoker. Smoked for almost 20 years and then quit. You have to actually want to quit instead of thinking you should quit. It's been almost 20 years and I still have occasional smoking dreams, but they involve thinking I've screwed up and will have to start over, rather than wanting to smoke. I never think about smoking when I'm awake, unless I run across someone smoking, and then it's a major annoyance. Former smokers are good at being self righteous. From my point of view, stopping smoking is all good and the struggle does get easier as time goes along. Just do it, or actually I mean Don't do it.

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