heron ASN, RN

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  1. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    "All charged to the taxpayer" - conveniently editing out the billions of taxpayer dollars stolen by vendor fraud. Dollars better used. to finance tax cuts for the top 0.01%,. After all, profits...
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Meanwhile, one of my favorite lefty talking heads on YouTube has announced that Jack Smith is asking about trump's foreign financial dealings while President. The child labor debate is getting...
  3. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    A "narrative" is essentially an attempt to explain the world as one sees it. I think the narrative you dismiss out of hand comes the closest to explaining what's been going on in healthcare. The...
  4. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Formatting on my phone is a
  5. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Your pejorative language suggests that you hold the poor and elderly responsible for the proliferation of unnecessary medical interventions. A fact stated with no context is either wrong or...
  6. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    You asked "how so?" when I wrote that our respective assessments of the state of healthcare are likely to be very different.
  7. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Kind of puts the recent SJC uproar in a whole n'other light. Regulatory capture at its
  8. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Hope they didn't just shoot themselves in the
  9. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    The original sales pitch for for-profit healthcare was that the profit motive and market competition would automatically improve quality of care, increase access and keep prices down. So how's...
  10. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Thanks. Back in the early eighties, we had a national network of neighborhood health centers. It was maybe a ten minute walk away from my apartment. I was able to get my son treated for an asthma...
  11. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Must be referring to fraudsters like Rick Scott. We have a new scam here targeting Native homeless. They pick up Natives here, promising rehab, housing - all kinds of support. They are transported...
  12. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    'Splain,
  13. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    I can't answer your question. I stopped following the public debate quite some time ago. Too much bullying going on and I had my own work to do. I do remember the days when the "good guy with a...
  14. heron

    Nurses Flocking Back to Hospitals

    heron replied to chare's topic in Nursing News

    A few years back, complaints about welfare queens with expensive accessories were all over AN. The outrage was spectacular. I observed at the time that those blatant cheaters were simply imitating...
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    And my whole point is that maybe the ideas of those who get stuck with the dirty work might be worth listening to. (And note that listening to =/= catering to.) Dismissing those concerns because...
  16. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    All that being said, LEOs are also the people we fully expect to get between us and the bad guys. All I'm saying is that they might have insights into what makes their job more or less do-able....
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Passing a law never solved a social problem. Does anyone have any ideas about how it gets enforced? The officers who would be expected to enforce safer gun laws might have useful insights into this....
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    This is reminding me of the old argument over video games. I believe that media consumption was probably a factor, but not a defining one. Contributing factors could well have included...
  19. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    They don't care. Once a worker's needs outgrow the profit derived from cheap labor, they'd just as soon we die and get off the
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Fair enough - just craving a little balance in these unbalanced
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    What is written/said is pretty clear-cut. What is implied is a matter of opinion on which we can agree to disagree. Carry on
  22. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Context is key - if I'm going to imply that conservative justices are uniquely corrupt, then omitting a similar examination of non-conservatives is less than honest. We don't know what we don't know...
  23. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    I think we need to take a look at all of them, not just the
  24. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    This from the folks who whine that "people just don't want to work anymore". Whatever happened to "if you can't afford it, you can't have it"? (This was the war cry back in 2008 when the...
  25. heron

    Is it illegal to date a patient's family member (parent)?

    heron replied to carti's topic in General Nursing

    Good for you. The situation sound pretty skeevy to