The Big Flush, Credit Ratings and Medicine, and Other News Items
City drains 8 million gallons of treated drinking water worth $28,000 after man relieves himself at reservoir. Full piece worth reading.
The company that gives you a credit rating can also rate the probability you will take your medicine. Risk score is on a scale of 0 to 500.
Freedom and personal autonomy are more important to people’s well-being than money. Who is John Galt?
Greater use of over-the-counter medicines could eliminate more than 26 million doctors’ visits every year, for annual savings of more than $5 billion. See obstacles in Obama Care legislation here.
Up to 3 million more people could qualify for Medicaid in 2014 as a result of Obama Care. A married couple could have an annual income of about $64,000 and still qualify.
Draining 8 million gallons of water does sound extreme. But I was surprised to learn treated municipal water was ever stored in open cisterns.
What a waste. No pun intended.
Storing their drinking water out in the open, doesn’t the city risk all kinds of chances from contamination from bugs, dead snakes, and rabid raccoons?
The Hill article on OTC drug use points out that reimbursement from FSAs and HSAs was restricted by the new health law, in order to raise revenue to help pay for other provisions. This wasn’t thought through very well, since it could end up boosting health care expenditures — not only through greater use of doctors/prescription drugs, but also from patients getting prescriptions for OTC medications.
Thus it is likely to be a wash, or even negative, with respect to reducing health care expenditures.
Oh well.
Well since everything interesting has already been stated regarding the first story, I’ll take a crack at Galt.
So, when he got caught, did they say, “Your in a lot of trouble now”?
I’ll be making a trip to Target today for an extra water filter…
But, yes, it seems really silly to dump that much water for one guy’s urine.
Credit card ratings: really interesting idea, however, it makes me a little nervous to have doctors checking public records to figure out whether or not I’ll take my meds.
An eight million gallon flush after a man is seen relieving himself in a city water storage pond? Wow! That should go in the Guinness Book of Records
@Atilla the pun
I must say I appreciate your analysis!