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Universal Healthcare – Universal Language

Posted on June 12, 2008 by

Here’s a speech given by my mother.  Aside from any political values, I think it exposes an interesting language (concept) problem we have in our culture – the idea of inherent character flaws.  I don’t always agree with my mom’s … Continue reading →

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Global Warming Marketing vs. Health Care Reform Marketing

Posted on May 12, 2008 by

Have you tried many of these “green” products out there?  The cleaners, the lightbulbs, the hybrid cars, and all the other end a round products intended to reduce your output of non-green/bad for the environment stuff…   I have. Most … Continue reading →

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The Health-Care Monocausilitis Crisis

Posted on March 6, 2008 by

Take a look at Sen. Tom Daschle’s latest note on his approach to improving health-care. His summary of his ideas focuses mostly on exposing more data to people (transparency). This is the only workable strategy because it doesn’t assume any … Continue reading →

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DNRs – one of the most confusing information concepts of our time

Posted on December 15, 2007 by

One of the great mindbenders of our lives is End of Life directives. Here’s a list of where directives go haywire: unclear language in the document document “enforced” by someone other than the subject of the document document not present … Continue reading →

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