Things I Learned from Leadership Class
I am in a Leadership class sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce which means every month I am spending a Thursday being educated by a different segment of our city. Yesterday we learned about the Healthcare Community. So here is what I learned am now passing on to you as sage advice or simple observations.
1. Health care costs are high and will continue to rise at twice the rate of inflation.
2. There are 47 million uninsured people in America. 12 million of them live in Texas. Wow, it is sooooo cool to be #1 in something... isn't it? Everyone should move to Texas immediately to be a part of this wonderful trend.
3. The State of Texas spends more money on healthcare issues than it does on education which means we want to be a healthy ignorant people. Hey, you can come to Texas and enjoy a marvelous level of healthy ignorance.
4. There are some pretty impressive pieces of technology out there. The demonstration at the cancer center on how they isolate a brain tumor and ensure they don't radiate the wrong part of the brain was mind boggling...to say the least. I wonder if they can perform lobotomies with the radiation technology?
5. All that technology is expensive but fortunately they can pass the cost onto us, the consumer.
6. Hospitals do not like insurance companies. Nay, they hate, despise, abhor and hold them in utter contempt.
7. There is a nursing shortage in this nation. Hmm, I always thought it was a woman's perogative on whether she wanted to breast feed or not. Oh well, what do I know?
8. Larva therapy is pretty cool. The use of maggots to aid with chronic open wounds is amazing. It seems they are working on developing a better maggot. They should check out the Texas A&M football team and coach... I think they will find three excellent maggots there.
9. Hospital's overcharge to cover the non-paying folks. Insurance companies underpay the procedures. The insured worker is then treated to a double whammy of having health care costs stuck to them. It is sort of a manage'a trois of financial rapists...with you being the unwilling third party.
10. The #1 important item I learned yesterday was.... DON'T GET SICK! It will kill you.
1. Health care costs are high and will continue to rise at twice the rate of inflation.
2. There are 47 million uninsured people in America. 12 million of them live in Texas. Wow, it is sooooo cool to be #1 in something... isn't it? Everyone should move to Texas immediately to be a part of this wonderful trend.
3. The State of Texas spends more money on healthcare issues than it does on education which means we want to be a healthy ignorant people. Hey, you can come to Texas and enjoy a marvelous level of healthy ignorance.
4. There are some pretty impressive pieces of technology out there. The demonstration at the cancer center on how they isolate a brain tumor and ensure they don't radiate the wrong part of the brain was mind boggling...to say the least. I wonder if they can perform lobotomies with the radiation technology?
5. All that technology is expensive but fortunately they can pass the cost onto us, the consumer.
6. Hospitals do not like insurance companies. Nay, they hate, despise, abhor and hold them in utter contempt.
7. There is a nursing shortage in this nation. Hmm, I always thought it was a woman's perogative on whether she wanted to breast feed or not. Oh well, what do I know?
8. Larva therapy is pretty cool. The use of maggots to aid with chronic open wounds is amazing. It seems they are working on developing a better maggot. They should check out the Texas A&M football team and coach... I think they will find three excellent maggots there.
9. Hospital's overcharge to cover the non-paying folks. Insurance companies underpay the procedures. The insured worker is then treated to a double whammy of having health care costs stuck to them. It is sort of a manage'a trois of financial rapists...with you being the unwilling third party.
10. The #1 important item I learned yesterday was.... DON'T GET SICK! It will kill you.
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posted by Frustrated Writer | 5:55 AM
3 Comments:
sounds like it was an informative class. the maggots sound fascinating, lol!
hope you have a great weekend!
Kill me? Shit, don't tell me that! I owe too much money to the doctors to die! (uninsured creep)
Sounds like the program we have here called "Leadership Pinellas"... HImself was in the first class way back when... Each "class" gets "educated" for a year. It is a great program for the community, but you have to apply to be accepted... at least we know that there are some people in the community that have some sort of idea about what is going on... and they get to know each other...
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