Many of the physicians that treated me over the years were foreign-born or trained overseas. They were all hard-eyes business men, as focused on the business end of medicine as on the medical profession itself. I recall reading an interview with a professional woman in America who had no clue about dating. Her aunties back home in India convinced her to let them find a husband for her. Her one request to them: that he be 'a good man? faithful? kind' - nope. "Please, please, please make sure he's a doctor!" Nuff said.
Much as I appreciate your knowledge and perspectives, I wish you would use the modest influence you have to decry the reprehensible slaughter through starvation going on in Gaza. Me thinks you are majoring on minors and minoring on majors. I wish I didn't feel compelled to say this and quite honestly don't know how I would act where I in your shoes, but...
Sorry, but I don’t buy O’Connor’s claim. All federal judges are on the federal health insurance program and when they retire after 15 years of service they get full pay for life plus lifetime health benefits. That wouldn’t help her children once they turned 26, but she definitely had health insurance.
Hi Andy, As I wrote, she was covered and so was her husband. But she was on the line for her son and his entire family. That's the sense in which she said she was uninsured. best, Larry
If you have assets (or future income) in a system which allows (and often celebrates) debenture, you would then be self-insured (de-facto collateralized/secured), no?
Many of the physicians that treated me over the years were foreign-born or trained overseas. They were all hard-eyes business men, as focused on the business end of medicine as on the medical profession itself. I recall reading an interview with a professional woman in America who had no clue about dating. Her aunties back home in India convinced her to let them find a husband for her. Her one request to them: that he be 'a good man? faithful? kind' - nope. "Please, please, please make sure he's a doctor!" Nuff said.
Much as I appreciate your knowledge and perspectives, I wish you would use the modest influence you have to decry the reprehensible slaughter through starvation going on in Gaza. Me thinks you are majoring on minors and minoring on majors. I wish I didn't feel compelled to say this and quite honestly don't know how I would act where I in your shoes, but...
Sorry, but I don’t buy O’Connor’s claim. All federal judges are on the federal health insurance program and when they retire after 15 years of service they get full pay for life plus lifetime health benefits. That wouldn’t help her children once they turned 26, but she definitely had health insurance.
Hi Andy, As I wrote, she was covered and so was her husband. But she was on the line for her son and his entire family. That's the sense in which she said she was uninsured. best, Larry
If you have assets (or future income) in a system which allows (and often celebrates) debenture, you would then be self-insured (de-facto collateralized/secured), no?
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