Tim Ferris on productivity
Very interesting way to look at what you are doing with your life!
More health plan stuff
Drug companies will spend 150-200 million dollars on advertising to convince people that the health plan is good. http://bit.ly/16UnXE
What a joke. Please read the bill yourself and see if it is really what is best for all of us?
Have You Read The New Health Plan Bill?
Have You Read The New Health Plan Bill?
Your representative in Congress probably hasn’t either…
Here are some highlights directly from the bill.
The Proposed Health Care Plan:
Pg 22 of the HC Bill MANDATES the Govt will audit books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self insure
Pg 30 Sec 123 of HC bill – THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you receive
Pg 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill – YOUR HEALTHCARE IS RATIONED. You can only receive a certain amount of “care” per year
Pg 42 of HC Bill – The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your HC Benefits for you. You have no choice.
PG 50 Section 152 in HC bill – HC will be provided to ALL non US residents, illegal or otherwise
Pg 58HC Bill – Govt will have real-time access to individuals finances & a National ID Health Card will be issued.
Pg 59 HC Bill lines 21-24 Govt will have direct access to your banks accts for funds transfer
PG 65 Sec 164 is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in Unions & community orgs (example -ACORN).
Pg 72 Lines 8-14 Govt is creating an HC Exchange to bring private HC plans under Govt control.
PG 84 Sec 203 HC bill – Govt mandates ALL benefit pkgs for private HC plans in the Exchange
PG 85 Line 7 HC Bill – Specs for Benefit Levels for Plans = The Govt will ration your Healthcare.
PG 91 Lines 4-7 HC Bill – Govt mandates linguistic appropriate services….. Example – Translation for illegal aliens
Pg 95 HC Bill Lines 8-18 The Govt will use groups i.e., ACORN & Americorps to sign up individually for Govt HC plan
PG 85 Line 7 HC Bill – Specs of Benefit Levels for Plans.#AARP members – your Health care WILL be rationed
-PG 102 Lines 12-18 HC Bill –
Medicaid Eligible Indiv. will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. No choice.
pg 124 lines 24-25 HC No company can sue GOVT on price fixing. No “judicial review” against Govt monopoly
pg 127 Lines 1-16 HC Bill – Doctors/ #AMA – The Govt will tell you what you can make.
Pg 145 Line 15-17 An Employer MUST auto enroll employees into public option plan. NO CHOICE
Pg 126 Lines 22-25 Employers MUST pay for HC for part time employees AND their families.
Pg 149 Lines 16-24 ANY Employer with a
payroll 400k & above who does not prov. public option, pays 8% tax on all payroll
pg 150 Lines 9-13 Businesses with payroll between 251k & 400k that don’t prov. pub. opt pay 2-6% tax on all payroll
Pg 167 Lines 18-23 ANY individual who doesn’t have acceptable HC accordng to Govt will be taxed 2.5%
Pg 170 Lines 1-3 HC Bill, Any NONRESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual taxes. (American taxpayers will pay for them)
Pg 195 HC Bill -officers & employees of HC Admin (GOVT) will have access to ALL Americans financial/personal records
PG 203 Line 14-15 HC – “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax”
Pg 239 Line 14-24 HC Bill, Govt will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors, low income, poor will be very affected
Pg 241 Line 6-8 HC Bill – Doctors, doesn”t matter what specialty you have, will all be paid the same
PG 253 Line 10-18 Govt sets value of Dr’s time, professional judgments, etc.
PG 265 Sec 1131 ,Govt mandates & controls productivity for private HC industries
PG 268 Sec 1141 Fed Govt regulates rental & purchase of power driven wheelchairs
PG 272 SEC. 1145. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN CANCER HOSPITALS -Cancer patients – rationing according to age
Page 280 Sec 1151 The Govt will penalize hospitals for what Govt deems preventable re-admissions.
Pg 317 L 13-20 PROHIBITION on ownership/investment. Govt tells Drs. what/how much they can own.
Pg 317-318 lines 21-25,1-3 PROHIBITION on expansion- Govt is mandating hospitals cannot expand
pg 321 2-13 Hospitals have oppt to apply for exception BUT community input required.
Pg335 L 16-25 Pg 336-339 – Govt mandates estab. of outcome based measures. Rationing
Pg 341 Lines 3-9 Govt has authority to disqualify Medicare Adv Plans, HMOs, etc. Forcing all into Govt HC plan
Pg 354 Sec 1177 – Govt will RESTRICT enrollment of Special needs
Pg 379 Sec 1191 Govt creates Telehealth
Advisory Cmtte. HC by phone
PG 425 Lines 4-12 Govt mandates Advance Care Planning Consult. Seniors will be
interviewed every five years for health issues and decisions made as to what care they can or can’t receive
Pg 425 Lines 17-19 Govt will instruct & consult regarding living wills, durable powers of atty. Mandatory!
PG 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3 Govt provides apprvd list of end of life resources, guiding you in death
PG 427 Lines 15-24 Govt mandates program for orders for end of life. The Govt has a say in how your life ends
Pg 429 Lines 1-9 An “adv. care planning consult” will be used frequently as patients health deteriorates
PG 429 Lines 10-12 “adv. care consultation” may include an ORDER for end of life plans.
Pg 429 Lines 13-25 – The govt will specify which Doctors can write an end of life order.
PG 430 Lines 11-15 The Govt will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life
Pg 469 – Community Based Home Medical Services=Non profit orgs.
Page 472 Lines 14-17 PAYMENT TO COMMUNITY-BASED ORG. 1
monthly payment to a community-based org.
PG 489 Sec 1308 The Govt will cover Marriage & Family therapy. Which means they will insert Govt into your marriage
Pg 494-498 Govt will cover Mental Health Svcs including defining, creating, rationing those services
Dolphin Leather?
I quote Seth Godin a lot and highly recommend his blog for daily reading!
In search of dolphin leather
There’s a story in the bible with very specific instructions for building an ark. Included in the instructions is a call for using tanned dolphin leather. Regardless of your feelings about the historical accuracy of the story, it’s an interesting question: why create an impossible mission like that? Why encourage people who might travel 100 miles over their entire lifetime to undertake a quest to find, capture, kill, skin and eventually tan a dolphin?
My friend Adam had an interesting take on this. He told me that the acquisition of the leather is irrelevant. It was the quest that mattered. Having a community-based quest means that there’s less room for whining, for infighting and for dissolution. Having a mission not only points everyone in the same direction, it also creates motion. And motion in any direction is often better than no motion at all.
All around you, people are telling you two things:
1. whatever you want, forget it, it’s impossible, and
2. sit still, preserve resources, lay low.
And yet, the people who are succeeding, creating change and (not coincidentally) are happier aren’t listening to either of these pieces of advice. Instead, they’re on the search for dolphin leather.
Frank Sinatra had it wrong. Your dream shouldn’t be impossible, but it sure helps if it’s improbable. Don’t choose your dreams based on what is certain to happen, choose them based on what’s likely to cause the change you want to occur around you.
How To Reach Out And Touch – Often
It is supremely ironic that the more we get on the internet to reach the whole world the more we need to use the internet to keep one on one contact with folks we care about, folks we want to maintain a relationship, and those we want to create one.
Every single day I send a minimum of one greeting card through the mail – from my computer.
online greeting cards
I choose a card, write a heartfelt message, and sometimes add a gift of brownies, or cookies, or something similar.
Then the program I use prints the card, stuffs and addresses the envelope, adds the gift if there is one and mails it for me – for less than $1.50.
Best deal in town. And a super easy way to create a wonderful feeling for yourself while giving joy. (Who doesn’t like to get greeting cards in the mail? Especially if it is accompanied by brownies!)
Create Your Life – Now More Than Ever
I have heard enough bad news in the last two days to last me a lifetime.
If we listen to the bad news bears the world is about to cave in on itself.
From my perspective it looks a bit different. We can only control our world – so that is where my focus lies.
At the horse stables in Atlanta, business is brisk. Although we are not getting as many calls for boarding as normal for this time of year, we are swamped with horse lesson, camp, and birthday pony party requests.
In the “Market Your Local Business” arena, more and more folks are beginning to realize the effectiveness and affordability of moving the majority of their marketing online – and they are using me to do it.
The point is this – do not let others tell you what your world looks like. Only you create your world. Granted you can choose to give that power to someone else – but what kind of life will they choose for you?
How hard will they work to make sure you have an amazing life?
Think hard about that and make the necessary changes you need – beginning today to create the world in which you live.
Why We Do What We Do…
Life is a Yume! (That’s Dream in Japanese!)
We decided a long time ago it was infinitely better for us to be doing what we love doing all the time and working when we can.
Learn how this is accomplished by scrolling through the menu. There is lots of good stuff there from years and years of writing!