gotcha! -- j
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The news isn't always accurate, and the BBC regularly reports on how good their system is.

the Brits? . I have heard the opposite, that they
have long wait times and poor service. -- j
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The purpose of government is primarily to protect and expand ITSELF and its minions (workers). Anything else is secondary, particularly the supposed beneficiaries they claim are the real reason for the programs. Thats why government programs almost universally fail.

From media accounts, GB has great health care !! I suspected we werent getting the real scoop.

John, it must be terrible to watch. I can imagine how this must affect you

You're welcome. I hope that helps somewhat. :-)

you are probably right. . Thanks, NMA! -- j

I mean that he's losing his love of life due to the
combination of frustrations. . and he assures me
that he was fully awake when he jerked the steering
wheel to the right to dodge an animal in the road,
causing the accident.
as NMA says, below, he may have slowed his
metabolism so much that he just burns very
few calories per day.
it's frustrating for all of us -- him, his son, me and
my wife. -- j

The only thing I can think of is his metabolism has slowed down too much.

John, I don't understand how your friend could be "wasting away" and eating so few calories but he's not losing weight?

NMA, please check my reply to Mama, here. -- j

Dr. Mama, I'm watching my friend waste away while
trying to lose weight (unsuccessfully) and trying to
find a place to go . . . he's been living with us for
about 4 years -- and we have the room -- but his
life is dwindling away. . he's my favorite millionaire,
"land poor," trying to sell a chunk worth about $2M.
he takes in so few calories that he's given
himself narcolepsy, kinda, and this past tuesday
may have blanked out in our subaru baja, causing
a wreck which flipped the car up onto its left side.
the rescue folks had to cut out the windshield to
get him out. . he is fine, having only scratched
his left arm. . and so lucky that it's inexpressable.

health, at his age 69.75, is a challenge -- and each person
is the one to integrate all of the professional
advice. . my challenge is emphysema, and the
life map I've drawn up tells me to Do It Now!!! -- j

just stash away enough to shrug, like I tried to,
before the essential date arrives . . . I retired just
before I turned 60, and it felt like a shrug. -- j

We are in full agreement your explanation above provides a much better understanding to your earlier comment

please enjoy the site jtruran

Khalling is just saying that if you know that the people in the Gulch are a reasonable bunch, you would not have misunderstood my comment.

You've probably already gotten it, but in Atlas the ruling class was willing to let thousands of people in Wisconsin die; in fact they relished wielding that kind of power. Our ruling class is perfectly willing to let old, sick people die; in fact they relish that kind of power. I was drawing a parallel, but didn't explain.

I would guess that his "base" voters have attention spans of one sound bite and watch only "mainstream" approved news sources -- and they see in him the same sort of Messiah that Stalin and Mao were to their followers (at first).

On the bright side, note how few politicians asked him to appear at their events during last year's elections for Congress. The rats are leaving the sinking ship.

I agree.

Thank you, you are quite right. What confused me in your reply was the comment about Wisconsin.

Thank you

I'd like to respond but what I want to say to you would be putting you down so I prefer to be the bigger of the two and say nothing to your comment.

Her model is a more traditional send-stuff-to-the-lab-get-your-results-back setup. Fee for service. The big diff is that she is innovating in the quality of analysis, which in most labs has not materially changed since the 1980's when automated analyzers were introduced.

What I was thinking about was more like a DYI space where the instruments were all in the FDA waived category. One tech would maintain the instruments and run QC (which rarely gets done on home instruments, but should be). You would do your own testing and you would pay for reagents + a fraction of (techtime + QC/calibrators + rent + profit). I wonder if you could 'hire' the tech to perform microscopy. Probably not.

I suspect the whole arrangement would be found to be illegal, even if all of the parts (except perhaps the microscopy) are separately legal.

I am rooting for Elizabeth Holmes (though her innovations may be disastrous to my business).

Jan

No doubt. }:-(