YES, thank you for your insightful comments! Single Payer does indeed make sense, if they're talking about reducing waste and beaurocracy. And the idea that it would eliminate competition and therefore degrade the quality of our healthcare is troubling in its underlying assumption that all healthcare providers are market-driven. Many are, of course, but we have to trust that doctors are trying to treat patients...
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abracadabra4:
I like it HOT, oh, I mean I like the wings hot 
Glad you found a job.
Glad you found a job.
mtl:
I'm a physician in support of health care reform, as long as it's tied to malpractice reform. I don't think anyone outside of the health care industry realizes what a farce the malpractice industry in this country is. An orthopaedic surgeon in NYC has to pay 100K a year for malpractice. Every year. Now picture every physician in the city dealing with that. If you operate on someone and they disappear (which happens quite a bit), even if you call them, even if you send them telegrams, and they turn up later with a poor outcome due to lack of follow-up... it's your fault. Etc. I was trained in the Canadian system and I'd love to work in a system like that, but that includes the Canadian malpractice system, which is very different from the US.
I'm glad I could spark some discussion, though sorry (not really) to offend any patriotic Americans. I suppose I'm patriotic too though; I'm deeply committed to reforming our lovely country to the best of its abilitites, which I believe are nearly boundless. So much wealth and power, beautiful and fertile land, tourism, industry, diversity, top-rate educational institutions, medical facilities, research projects, etc! So why be...
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abracadabra4:
I'm assuming you have made it to NYC by now. How are thing going for you?
abracadabra4:
I just realized that I missed your b-day.... by a month..... sry 
NYC scary? never LOL. I almost want to move there except the rent would kill me. BTW your six pack is amazing.
NYC scary? never LOL. I almost want to move there except the rent would kill me. BTW your six pack is amazing. And back to New York it is! I'm still on an epic road trip though, having trekked through the Canadian Rockies and paddled through the Minnesota Boundary Waters. Canada was refreshing; not only do they have their health care down, but they have progressive sales tax rebates; if you don't earn much, you get a check each month giving back for the sales tax you...
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abracadabra4:
She is so smart and lawber just can't read, I think. I understood your explanation of the sales tax and also agree with you. Good Old America would be so much better if everyone could get medical care. To tell you the truth, if it comes down to it, I'll send my portion of the "medical tax" straight to you Anyway, Canada is toooo damn cold.
Anyway, Canada is toooo damn cold. 
auriga:
Yeah, that book was hard to put down.
But, the only book I cannot read without finishing in one sitting is the Bell Jar.
I have an unhealthy obsession with Plath.
I'm moving to Cypress Hills, Brooklyn
But, the only book I cannot read without finishing in one sitting is the Bell Jar.
I have an unhealthy obsession with Plath.
I'm moving to Cypress Hills, Brooklyn
Summer! Bike rides and river swims, U-pick farms, and the restaurant courtyard where I work constantly full of foamy beer pitchers and the drinkers of them.
In other news, nothing has settled down. I'm applying to grad schools across the country and beyond, and unsure of where to live in the meantime. Perhaps back to New York, like a yo-yo. The boy may follow or...
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In other news, nothing has settled down. I'm applying to grad schools across the country and beyond, and unsure of where to live in the meantime. Perhaps back to New York, like a yo-yo. The boy may follow or...
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pyro530:
Well good luck with school and the living situation.
crispy:
BIRTHDAY!!
Allright, new drinks made up, new drink pictures uploaded, summer is here!
null8th Avenue Rose
1 shot rose petal infused gin
3 lime slices
2 dashes angustura bitters
1 tsp powdered sugar
club soda
Muddle limes and sugar in a mixing glass. Add gin and bitters, shake with ice. Strain into chilled cocktail glass. Top with a splash of club soda, and garnish with...
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null8th Avenue Rose
1 shot rose petal infused gin
3 lime slices
2 dashes angustura bitters
1 tsp powdered sugar
club soda
Muddle limes and sugar in a mixing glass. Add gin and bitters, shake with ice. Strain into chilled cocktail glass. Top with a splash of club soda, and garnish with...
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heymcfly:
I can honestly say I have never looked at a rose and thought, "You know what would go good with this rose? Some gin." Inventive.
hedy:
sounds yummy. i love rose flavored baked goods, so it would be yummy in a drink.
Summer has blasted through and the roses were going gangbusters before I picked them for a rose-infused gin. Roses work perfectly with gin's floral, herbal notes... and with some muddled limes, shaken with ice and sugar, and topped off with club soda and a single rose petal... it's the taste of summer in Oregon. Or the taste of My summer in Oregon, I hope. I've...
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kowtow:
I am glad to hear that things worked out for you. It is refreshing to hear.
takfuji:
The good news is welcome.
No Tolstoy quotes or philosophies on life for now. It is 3:18 AM, a drizzly damp Oregon night, with Animal Collective's ethereal and strangely soothing Merriweather Post Pavilion on in an attempt to find sleep.
But sleep won't be here for a while yet.
Sometimes I wonder if it's just me... does anyone else know that feeling of being led on, no-merely tolerated, and then...
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But sleep won't be here for a while yet.
Sometimes I wonder if it's just me... does anyone else know that feeling of being led on, no-merely tolerated, and then...
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abracadabra4:
OK, I asked too soon, it has updated now. Very cute and awesomely seductive eyes.
expo:
Thanks for adding me pretty lady
And I'm off! Or nearly. Just as I have fully reconciled myself with New York, I find that I am not too cynical after all to follow love to, well, bleaker parts of this earth. I'm sorry Oregon; you are not bleak, just boring. Beautiful though, easy, quiet, clean, and temporary.
What I am desperately trying to figure out is how temporary this love is....
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What I am desperately trying to figure out is how temporary this love is....
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niobe:
Happy Earth Day!
tita:
How are you doing? I hope it's all working out for you...
I just moved across the country>and while it wasn't solely for love, I'm hoping it'll end up that way
I just moved across the country>and while it wasn't solely for love, I'm hoping it'll end up that way
I'm surprised they haven't turned me into one of those "Tallisker is no longer active on the site" pages. It will happen someday, but apparently that day has not yet come.
I've been sticking with the political involvement, and picking up babysitting hours on the side. Fall has crumpled into winter, which brought fluffy snow by 2 AM last night that has turned into the...
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I've been sticking with the political involvement, and picking up babysitting hours on the side. Fall has crumpled into winter, which brought fluffy snow by 2 AM last night that has turned into the...
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furiaa:
i am probably going to ny in september...
hunter:
Telepathe is totally rad. You should come hang with me and Calamity sometime, I think we'd have fun exploring the city together. PS, nice bottom.
It's been a long time, but a busy time, full of illicit exclusive government affairs. Not the romantic kind of course, but the work-kind, the office 9-5 (which never means 9-5), the press conferences, the hearings at City Hall and interviews with local politicians. My own role in all this is mild and translucent; the girl scribbling in the corner whose words will be printed...
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crispy:
*poke*
chachachie1:
alive?