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To: Amy J who wrote (183366)	2/2/2006 1:50:23 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Respond to of 186894

re:not paying to have a bump removed on a woman's face because insurance would declare it 'cosmetic' while removing the same type of bump from the face of a man (because no one would accuse the removal of a bump from a guy to be cosmetic so it must be medically needed) Ever try to shave around a facial mole? You can bleed to death cutting one of those things.

To: Amy J who wrote (183366)	2/2/2006 3:47:41 PM
From: BelowTheCrowd	Respond to of 186894

For example, unlike PA clinic (where you pay ~$65/year to email your already overly busy doctor), they will instead pay $25 per incident to get some good advice from a foreign doctor. That's the way to go. They have the time for you. American doctors don't because they are not permitted to give patients time since the health industry is operated by MBAs. When you look around the world at health systems, the one thing that is unique to ours is not the presence of MBAs, MPAs, and variety of other administrator types. Fact is, medical systems run entirely by doctors don't do particularly well either, because making things run well is just not what they're good at. What is unique about our system is the intense politicization and corruption built into it. Most countries make an effort to avoid letting medicine get too political, although this is beginning to change in many places. What's amazing is that the US government spends more per capita on health care every year than most of those socialist countries, and still only pays 44% of the total bill. Between public and private sectors we're paying double what most countries do, yet our health stats are nowhere near the top and have been sinking. Our political system has created a healthcare debacle that borrows the worst aspects of both socialist AND free market models, with none of the social benefits of either.

To: Amy J who wrote (183366)	2/2/2006 4:19:37 PM
From: Saturn V	Respond to of 186894

I agree that he medical insurance is a big mess with a lot of arbitrary exclusions. Strangely I have heard that the prison hospitals even pay for viagra for inmates including sexual predators ! Funding medical research is even messier. Treatments for Diseases in thirld world countries or low incidence US diseases are not funded, since obviously there is not enough money to be made . However India is coming up big in pharmaceutical research hopefully allowing more research in neglected diseases. BTW Do insurance companies or the government pay for wigs of male cancer victims ? ;-)

To: Amy J who wrote (183366)	2/10/2006 12:10:03 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

This article had your name written all over it.... Study: California semi industry has fewest women directors Dylan McGrath EE Times (02/09/2006 8:04 PM EST) SAN FRANCISCO — Women make up only 5.5 percent of people sitting on California semiconductor company boards, the lowest percentage of any major industry in the state, according to a study released Thursday (Feb. 9) by the University of California-Davis. Overall, the study of California's 200 largest publicly traded companies found that 10 percent of directors are women. According to UC Davis, a comparison to similar studies for seven other states and cities showed California ranks second to Chicago in the percentage of board seats held by women and sixth in the percentage of women executives, ahead of only Florida and Michigan. "As the epicenter of innovation, the eighth largest economy in the world in its own right, and a trailblazer in social trends, California should be on the forefront of women's leadership in the corporate arena," the study's authors wrote. "The truth is, it is not." The study found 55 companies, or more than 25 percent of the top 200, have no women board members and no women executive officers. In the boardroom, 34 percent of the top 200 companies have no women, and nearly 38 percent have only one woman director. Researchers found women hold only 10.2 percent of the combined board seats and highest-paid executive officer positions. Specifically, they occupy only 202 seats, or 11.4 percent, of the 1,771 board seats and, at 8.2 percent, an even smaller proportion of the 1,006 executive slots.