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 peo­ple …

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)