Tag Archives: health care

Does Our Whininess Have No End?

Whole Foods is implementing a plan to give a bigger employee discount to employees that don’t smoke, have lower blood pressure and have a BMI under 30. Naturally, people are whining about discrimination. This includes one quote that I can’t possibly do justice to other than to reproduce it in full: “Why are you rewarding …

February 7, 2010 – 3:21 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)

The State Of Health Care Reporting Is Sad

The front page article on CNN right now, if read uncritically, would have the dear reader to believe that if you are uninsured in America, you are “at mortal risk” of dying prematurely and that 45,000 people die every year for the sole reason that they don’t have health insurance. Read more closely and you …

September 18, 2009 – 2:12 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in National Issues | Tagged , | Comments (3)