February 2009
30 posts
I love Obama, but in this case, he's simply wrong.
Obama said he’s appropriating $20 Billion dollars to the health care industry to encourage widespread adoption of electronic medical records.
While this sounds like a phenomenal idea, it’s not.
This is about as good an idea as throwing money at advancing the technology found in the Commodore 64.
Like bailing out the Big Three automakers, an infusion of federal dollars into the...
“Zuck was — remarkably! — unphased by this line of thinking and went ahead and...”
– Matt Welsh, one of Mark Zuckerberg’s CS professors (via marco)
Dear New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo... →
Cuomo wants to create a not-for-profit entity that ensures objective, transparent and reasonable out-of-network insurance pricing for individuals in New York…obviously an amazing thing to do.
However, he wants to spend $100 million to do this.
Spend $100 million on a project that costs $3 million?
The project Cuomo wants to spend $100 million on is already built by change:healthcare, one...
A portfolio instead of a diploma « BuzzMachine →
While reading Grown up Digital, I quickly understood that the education system in America is in the same sorry state as our health care system. And What Would Google Do? highlights many of the same problems. The language the young people speak, the way their minds work, and how they learn seems like ADD to a greying generation of leaders. However, there are people out there thinking much smarter...
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like… People...”
– Steve Jobs, The New York Times, 2003
CDC: 'Young invincibles' have significant health... →
Toward the end I’m quoted. Not very ground breaking, but still somewhat interesting that the media is now reporting on young people’s health care.
“Purchasing poorly managed, uncoordinated, inaccessible health care is way, way...”
– Me.
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The best health insurance for you.
For the average person with no significant expensive chronic problems, the best insurance strategy for you is:
Purchase a high deductible health plan for $140 a month (ideally with an associated Health Savings Account (HSA))
Discontinue the traditional, expensive pre-paid health care plan we’re all used to (say this costs $600 a month ($7200 a year))
Put the cost difference of the two...
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MySpace
I just cancelled my account. You know it’s a bad sign for your company when the top FAQ is “How do I cancel my account?”
A Hidden Cost of Health Care: Patient Time →
Americans age 15 and older collectively spent 847 million hours waiting for medical services to be provided in 2007.
The average American spent 1.1 hours a week obtaining health care in 2007.
And only about 45 minutes with the doctor per year.
Considering that “waiting time is money,” Americans “spent” the equivalent of $240 billion on health care in 2007. Put...
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Hello Health @Soho Apple Store - Feb 16th →
The Soho Apple Store is hosting Hello Health for a gathering to present Hello Health, see some screen shots for the next version of Hello Health, and discuss how the internet can be used to improve our health and make health care more affordable and accessible.
“The single won’t get you much more than a stiff nod and, these days, the...”
– The $20 Theory of the Universe - Esquire
We Feasted →
Had a great time in New Orleans speaking at The Feast put on by alldaybuffet:
“The energy from these young entrepreneurs is contagious,” he said. “This is new future business models, and the buzz is totally different.”
I definitely encourage all of you to attend the next Feast that will be held here in NYC Oct 1 and 2.
Yo La Tengo covers a very difficult to find New...
Wall Street shrugs off January job losses of 598K... →
mikehudack:
This is easy. Terrible job losses were already priced into the markets. Which is a fundamentally good thing: It means that the markets have mostly corrected for the present economic situation and that we may have hit something resembling a floor. God willing. I’m buying.
So…the estimates suggest that for every person who loses a job, 3.5 people within their family are...
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people...”
– Steve Jobs, 1998 (via uxquotes) (via simplify) (via mikehudack)
I'm in New Orleans...
Speaking tomorrow at the All Day Buffet Social Innovation Conference. However, I haven’t been to New Orleans since I was 5 years old. I have no idea what I need to see and where I need to go.
I wish there was a website like Not For Tourists for every area of our country that could tell me the best places to go and see. Sort of like a curated Yelp.
Any suggestions?
Universal Music Links To Unauthorized, Soundless... →
jstn:
It’s like a snake eating itself. (via jackzerby)
I love this…a company so large it doesn’t even realize it’s shooting itself in the foot for not only promoting their music, but also not being able to keep track of the wild wild west of the crazy, lawless internet that’s only being used to expose more people to Universal’s catalog.
The Daily Fix › A Doctor Grows in Brooklyn →
And here is the reason why we started Hello Health…to make people happy, help them feel better, and keep them well.
Also, be sure and check out the entire blog. It’s good readin’.
Spreed News →
This is pretty amazing…
Spreed News is a new online user interface for desktops and mobile phones (think iPhone) for optimizing screen-based reading. Their algorithm parses text based on semantic and syntactic content to maximize contextual inference, and then renders the text in a way that virtually eliminates speed deterring eye movements. One can try out the interface for reading news,...