If treating Medicare patients was such a good deal, why does it take "a special $12 billion fund to try to persuade health plans to enter" the market? Republicans, for all their homage to free markets, seem to think bribery is the best way to create those markets. Lies, lies and cash.
News you can use: This article identifies a database which contains info about disciplinary actions taken against doctors in every state (save South Dakota, for unspecified reasons).
It comes from being a librarian's son, I suppose, but archiving web material is one of my minor fascinations. Here's some alarming data: "In one recent study, one-fifth of the Internet addresses used in a Web-based high school science curriculum disappeared over 12 months." Want more? From the same article: "of the 2,483 British government Web sites, for example, 25 percent change their URL each year..." At the moment, there are various methods of trying to resolve this burgeoning problem, but none have reached the level of a standard yet.
Posted by Linkmeister at November 24, 2003 10:55 AMI now have a deep distrust for South Dakota...
Posted by: batty at November 24, 2003 11:21 AM