Delicious LiveJournal Links for 1-27-2010

[andrewducker]

• Scientists recreate Maxwell's Demon
  Clarke's Third Law applies, obviously
  (tags: science TheFuture)
• This is why I was never any good at flirting
  (tags: comic funny flirting)
• Pure CSS 3D Coke Can
  Damn, that's impressive!
  (tags: 3d coke design programming html css)
• FT Alphaville » The bank problem in a single chart
• Whole Foods Offers Employee Discount Based On BMI
  And also campaigns against healthcare reform.
  (tags: health usa EpicFail)
• Blu-ray Maker Re-Boxes $500 Player, Charges $3,500
  Would you like some oxygen free cables to go with that?
  (tags: hardware marketing scam technology EpicFail)
• Teacher Anxieties May Subtract From Girlsâ™ Math Scores
  (tags: mathematics gender society psychology teaching)
• How the brain encodes memories at a cellular level
  (tags: brain science memory neuroscience psychology biology)
• German court finds parent liable for child's file-sharing
  (tags: law germany filesharing)
• Use Google Reader to follow changes to any website
  (tags: google rss)
• UK more liberal on homosexuality, says survey. Still 33% bigoted though.
  Some 36% thought homosexual acts were "always" or "mostly" wrong, down from 62% when the British Social Attitudes survey was first carried out, in 1983.
  (tags: gay politics uk society)

Comments

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

You can file it under selfish, but I don't think it can be put down to ignorance. Healthcare reform would undoubtedly provide better heathcare for those currently without insurance. But I'm not sure it would improve the service received by those currently insured. Nobody is suggesting that there should be state-provided healthcare, only some sort of state-funded insurance policy.

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

By service I don't mean the medical care itself but access to it; the service you get from your insurance company. So, for example, reducing discrimination for pre-existing conditions, deductibles and other out of pocket expenses (on top of the insurance), caps on what insurance companies will cover.

And people with insurance may not always have it, particularly since it is often tied to employment, which again is addressed by the public option (which isn't the same as a state-funded insurance policy, merely a universal, affordable private insurance scheme).