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Oh, I'm sorry. Now that you've reworded that from "quite" to "very" difficult, I see why it can't be done.
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Uglysasquatch wrote:
Oh, I'm sorry. Now that you've reworded that from "quite" to "very" difficult, I see why it can't be done.
Next stop, "extremely".
I assume you two have better implementation ideas then, that can divorce economic and political objectives of a consulting firm, right?
I'm all ears.
I'm all ears.
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Timelordwho wrote:
Sure, the first step is to structure incentives in a secondary oversight committee, done by an outside think tank instead of a congressional body. It's actually very difficult to find people to tend to the garden without being overtly partisan. These institutions actually have a really short half life before they get overrun without a very strong leader. Add to that it is an unelected body attempting to control policy and you get a lot of backlash from various firms and public figures.
CAGW is one example of one of the many groups trying to do this here, (sorry, I don't have enough knowledge on Canada to know groups off the cuff that do this there) but their decentralized nature makes their specific power to affect policy somewhat lacking. I realize It's necessary to prevent them dying to cancer, but it is what it is.
Edited, Jul 13th 2012 12:04pm by Timelordwho
CAGW is one example of one of the many groups trying to do this here, (sorry, I don't have enough knowledge on Canada to know groups off the cuff that do this there) but their decentralized nature makes their specific power to affect policy somewhat lacking. I realize It's necessary to prevent them dying to cancer, but it is what it is.
Edited, Jul 13th 2012 12:04pm by Timelordwho
They need a permanent structure that requires a thorough audit every so often - maybe 5 years, or 7 years, but that would really be program dependent. The audit process has to remain non-biased.
The problem that I see with most government programs is they take on more and more and never let go of the old. A simple example is electronic documentation versus paper. Many many agencies use both. They can't dump the paper version because it's written into rule, or even statute or maybe they're just not comfortable doing so.
Technology has been changing too fast for our government structure to keep up. The status quo procedures for government to carry out it's work is highly out-dated. There's no way it can keep up with administrations that change every two to six years.
But, something that can't be forgotten is your standard welfare program, whether it's providing food, shelter, money or health care is inherently inefficient as it's has to be available to everyone with need (with welfare programs equality > efficiency).
Alma wrote:
I lost my post
The reason our "paperless" office still goes through a ream of paper a week is because you can't tape a website to a broken laserjet printer to explain why it's sitting on the repair bench.
catwho wrote:
The reason our "paperless" office still goes through a ream of paper a week is because you can't tape a website to a broken laserjet printer to explain why it's sitting on the repair bench.
No, but you could probably send an email. Your statement makes no sense to me.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Also, that's a lot of broken printers.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
People still use printers?
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"we lack hospitals and doctors"
We do? When's the last time you couldn't get the care you needed? Heck the only time we really have to wait at all is for specialists and even then you only wait if it's a minor issue, typically 2 weeks - 2 months from my own experience, and generally have an interim treatment for whatever symptoms you may have while you wait.
Wife went to the doctor the other day. Dr wanted an ultrasound done so sent us down the road and had it done an hour later. That wasn't even urgent, we'd have gone down 2 floors and been done immediately if it was.
Our health care system is fantastic. There's always room for improvement of course.
Yodabunny wrote:
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"we lack hospitals and doctors"
Our health care system is fantastic. There's always room for improvement of course.
It is fantastic, but we lack doctors and hospitals, which falls under room for improvement. We shouldn't have to wait to get care. I understand serious issues get taken care of rather quickly, but many people are on waiting lists to get fixes for less severe things.
Just saying that the "Canada rations health care" line is misleading. We have to schedule our health care based on necessity, if we had more doctors and care facilities, we would not have to "ration" our doctors and beds.
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rdmcandie wrote:
Yodabunny wrote:
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"we lack hospitals and doctors"
Our health care system is fantastic. There's always room for improvement of course.
It is fantastic, but we lack doctors and hospitals, which falls under room for improvement. We shouldn't have to wait to get care. I understand serious issues get taken care of rather quickly, but many people are on waiting lists to get fixes for less severe things.
Just saying that the "Canada rations health care" line is misleading. We have to schedule our health care based on necessity, if we had more doctors and care facilities, we would not have to "ration" our doctors and beds.
What is the cause of the shortage of health care resources?
Alma wrote:
I lost my post
Samira wrote:
catwho wrote:
The reason our "paperless" office still goes through a ream of paper a week is because you can't tape a website to a broken laserjet printer to explain why it's sitting on the repair bench.
We use a cloud based ticketing system for our business process, so all tickets exist in the archives online. But when you have at any given time 5 broken printers (yes that's a lot), 20-30 computers in some state of preparation, repair, or just sitting on a rack waiting to be deployed at a moment's notice, plus boxes and boxes of phones, cables, cords, hard drives, and every other computer part you can think of (we do have a small warehouse for a reason), you need to label what something is, where it belongs, where it's going, and why it's sitting on the repair bench and not being serviced on site. And since we use identical parts whenever we can (most of our printers are 2055dn from HP, and most of our workstations are HP4000 or HP6000 these days), they need to have some sort of distinguishing mark on them. We do have labels with the PC names, but we tape a paper copy of the ticket onto the part in question so that we can identify it instantly. And there are 15 of us shuffling all this stuff around like little ants. I probably print out about 50 pages worth of tickets and other documentation just by myself - and that's not even printing all the tickets I actually process, since most of my work is software based.
Edited, Jul 13th 2012 2:58pm by catwho
Elinda wrote:
What is the cause of the shortage of health care resources?
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
Is he talking about the IRS itself, or the IRS as synecdoche for rising taxes / big government? Because I always figured the IRS was essentially just a bunch of desk jockeys/paper pushers/pencil pushers/corporate cogs with no real power of their own, albeit desk jockeys with deliberately confusing documents.
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LePage responded, "They're headed in that direction."
Heintz then asked LePage if he knew what the Gestapo did during World War II. LePage said, "Yeah, they killed a lot of people." Heintz asked if he thought the IRS was going to kill a lot of people.
"Yeah," LePage said.
Heintz then asked LePage if he knew what the Gestapo did during World War II. LePage said, "Yeah, they killed a lot of people." Heintz asked if he thought the IRS was going to kill a lot of people.
"Yeah," LePage said.
This explains where Gbaji went.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
I'm confused....
I've read this thread, and for the most part, I follow the conversation. In fact, somehow, I feel smarter after reading this thread, but I didn't get a headache...
...I'm not sure how to take this.... it's something I've never experienced before.... is this an asylum thing? Do your threads often make people feel smarter, rather than dumber?
I've read this thread, and for the most part, I follow the conversation. In fact, somehow, I feel smarter after reading this thread, but I didn't get a headache...
...I'm not sure how to take this.... it's something I've never experienced before.... is this an asylum thing? Do your threads often make people feel smarter, rather than dumber?
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Except if it were baby photos, it would be like looking at before and afters of Michael Jackson. Only instead of turning into a white guy, he changes into a chick!
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Glitterhands wrote:
Am I the only one who clicked on this thread expecting actual baby photos [of Jinte]? o.O
Except if it were baby photos, it would be like looking at before and afters of Michael Jackson. Only instead of turning into a white guy, he changes into a chick!
Flattery will get you nowhere, chump.
Jophiel wrote:
I managed to be both retarded and entertaining.
catwho wrote:
The reason our "paperless" office still goes through a ream of paper a week is because you can't tape a website to a broken laserjet printer to explain why it's sitting on the repair bench.
Paperless offices shouldn't have printers in the first place.
Nadenu wrote:
catwho wrote:
The reason our "paperless" office still goes through a ream of paper a week is because you can't tape a website to a broken laserjet printer to explain why it's sitting on the repair bench.
Paperless offices shouldn't have printers in the first place.
Tell that to HIPAA.
Jinte wrote:
Do your threads often make people feel smarter, rather than dumber?
It depends on whether or not you can dismiss facts outright that disagree with your political worldview or not. Those that can't stay willfully ignorant, those that can may or may not learn something new.
Mostly the former.
"The Rich are there to take all of the money & pay none of the taxes, the middle class is there to do all the work and pay all the taxes, and the poor are there to scare the crap out of the middle class." -George Carlin
Yodabunny wrote:
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"we lack hospitals and doctors"
We do? When's the last time you couldn't get the care you needed? Heck the only time we really have to wait at all is for specialists and even then you only wait if it's a minor issue, typically 2 weeks - 2 months from my own experience, and generally have an interim treatment for whatever symptoms you may have while you wait.
Wife went to the doctor the other day. Dr wanted an ultrasound done so sent us down the road and had it done an hour later. That wasn't even urgent, we'd have gone down 2 floors and been done immediately if it was.
Our health care system is fantastic. There's always room for improvement of course.
It all depends. Do you live in a city over 100K? If then, you're right. If you're not, the situation is totally different.
Also there is a huge lack of family physicians, I mean, yes, it's easy as heck to get seen by a walk in clinic, but it's not the same as having someone watching your health in a long term way.
Elinda wrote:
What is the cause of the shortage of health care resources?
There are several things...
We don't have a lot of spaces in universities to train doctors, and there are a lot of them retiring.
Most provincial governments are cash-strapped, so they are holding the line on budgets, so for surgeries like knee and hip, which are scheduled surgeries, they are handing (speaking of my prov. here) a budget to the health authorities and saying "live within it" what that means is that they are using that money till it runs out and everyone left gets to wait till there is more money.
The result is long wait lists for some of those surgeries, and then yes, people go to the states for private surgery sometimes if they can afford it in those cases. When it comes to anything truly life-threatening though, it gets done. It's not an ideal situation at times but it is still better than forking out huge medical insurance premiums.
As for hospitals, we don't have a shortage of them, at least here, though in rural areas there are some that have been having limited closures etc because there aren't the doctors to staff them it is just really difficult to keep doctors in some of those towns, which have less than 10 k people in the middle of nowhere.. More needs to be done to help that, but even money isn't really enough at times, it is just an issue of people not wanting to live in a village in the middle of nowhere, period.
Edited, Jul 15th 2012 9:27pm by Olorinus
I lived in neighborhoods with more than 100k people.
George Carlin wrote:
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
Your mom is a neighborhood of more than 100K people.
lolgaxe wrote:
I lived in neighborhoods with more than 100k people.
I grew up in a community of less than 16k, and it was the largest city for six hours drive in any direction.
catwho wrote:
Your mom is a neighborhood of more than 100K people.
George Carlin wrote:
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
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