Letters to the Editor
ReganaD
Published Letters: 119 Editor's Choice: 4
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Joenbo
[Read the article: Have we fallen behind our parents?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maybe doubling the supply of labor meant that it was not scarce anymore, and therefore wages didn't have to rise? Why would an employer work to keep an employee, when they can replace him or her easily, and cheaply?
I think businesses got hooked on the plentiful supply (and accompanying low cost), and that's why we now have outsourcing and wink wink nod nod attitudes toward illegal immigrants.
I am a woman, and I'm really glad that I have the chance to have a career of my choosing. But my basic econ course in college taught me that if you double (or hugely increase) the supply of something, without also increasing the demand, the price of the good or service is going to go down. Which is why it now takes two incomes to support a family.
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Electro Robot
[Read the article: Are the Jews good for Barack Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is your boss. Get back to work.
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You guys are such MEN
[Read the article: Tom Brady's Giants cap]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I feel perfectly justified in rooting for whichever team has the coolest uniforms or against the ones I despise the most (Sorry University of Tennessee! I don't like that orange!). Also, if the QB has a cute butt and doesn't talk with some dumb southern drawl, I will happily root for that team.
Connection? huh?
Ok, little secret, I always go to a couple of home games and root for my alma mater, the University of Wyoming. But they aren't on TV much.
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LeCastor
[Read the article: No date, no prom for you!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Was it really necessary to accuse BS65 of reasoning?
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I agree
[Read the article: Life at the bottom]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]with Neilpaul. Prices went up 30, 40 percent a year for several years. I think 50% haircuts in some of those markets might not be enough.
A regular family with two wage earners might be able to afford $232,000, though. That is something to celebrate.
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"Personal" lord and savior
[Read the article: Psycho Christians and the media]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is a symbol of all that's corrupt with the born-agains. I, me, am so special, that Jesus is just gonna drop everything, and bless me, me, me, for I am the center of it all! Yuck. If you really believe, wouldn't you think that GOD would be the center of it all, and you serve him, in your insignificance, not the other way around?
Instead, for these people, Jesus should be at their beck and call, blessing them here, there , everywhere, making them rich. They don't even have to behave decently! Because they are SAVED!
And they hold their hands up while they sing their stupid songs, presumably to grab those blessings that are raining down before they (the blessings) can land on their neighbor.
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Electro
[Read the article: What's in John McCain's medical records?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You know a lot about some things, and nothing about others. Maybe you should refrain from commenting on those? HIPAA (NOT HIPPA) laws are binding on covered entities. People asking questions are not covered entities. As for unethical, well, I think presidential candidates are asked about a lot of things. They don't have to answer (as McCain has chosen not reveal his psychiatric history).
Ad long as some healthcare provider is not releasing his records without his permission HIPAA has nothing to do with it.
Not that I've noticed ignorance, lack of something to say, or anything else keeps you from commenting...endlessly...on every single story.
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ELectro
[Read the article: What's in John McCain's medical records?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do you really think you know this subject? Do you really think people don't get tired of what you may thing of as witty comments, but what look to me like sophomoric jerkiness of the worst kind?
Cigna is a covered entity, engaged in the payment or provision of health care services.
Again, it is not a violation of federal law to ask someone, who is himself the patient, what's up with his mental health records. He can (and did) say no, I don't wish to discuss or reveal that information. It is a violation for a psychiatrist to publish them anyway, which they have not.
Really, this is my field. I do it for a living. I am personally liable for unintended, intended, or malicious disclosures of personal health information for members covered by my plan, (a covered entity, asshat) or breaches by a third party of our technical or physical storage of records.
Once again, people can ask. Like this: Do you take any medications for your mental health problems, electro? When was the last time you had a psychiatric workup? See? I can ask, you can choose not to answer. HIPAA doesn't come into it.
If you worked for the same employer as I do (and I am ever so glad that you do not), I could look at your claim records and answer those questions myself to my satisfaction, though that would in theory be something of a violation, because it would violate the "minimum necessary" provision.
Anyway, I'm glad you don't like me. Like I surmise is often the case with many others, I read your letters, roll my eyes, and sigh. What a frickin' idiot, I think, I wonder if he thought that was witty, or pithy, or germane? Or cool? Or even, god forbid, smart?