MMedsolution Mmed Solution

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

I’m an entrepreneur, so I do watch my travel budget and I generally fly coach or business class. Like a lot of people, I fantasize about traveling first class. Just the name alone — first class — conjures up a fantasy of perfection.

I am so incredibly naïve.

My husband and I had to go to Mumbai for business. Although we were flying into London, with a connection to Mumbai, we thought we should take the opportunity to get to Dubai, too. We knew that some of the Hindi-language film people, or Bollywood types, were in Dubai so it would be smart for us to do the same thing.

When we landed in London, we were very out of sorts and very hungry. But we had to make arrangements to go to Dubai and then run to another terminal to catch our connection.

As we were checking in, the agent overheard my husband and me talking about the meeting we had with the musical artist 50 Cent. He was a huge fan.

I made a joke that I would give him some 50 Cent gear that I had in my carry-on if he would upgrade our tickets.

The next thing I knew we had two first-class boarding passes.

When we got on the plane we were ushered into first class, and I was excited.

But I don’t think the attendant was too thrilled. Our ticket stubs showed that we were “upgrades,” not people who actually paid for the amenities.

The attendants were paying a lot of attention to everyone, bringing extra pillows, fluffing blankets and doing everything in their power to make these other travelers comfortable. People were getting refills for their wine glasses. I couldn’t get a glass of water.

My husband and I were starved. I’m not a picky eater, and I figured I couldn’t go wrong with ordering risotto when it was time to get some food. Unfortunately, the risotto came smothered in cheese. I can’t eat cheese; I get sick.

I told the attendant, and she looked at me like I was crazy. I couldn’t get another meal. So I asked for a snack, only to be told that snacks were served only in business or coach class.

At this point, I really didn’t know what to do. So I just sat there like a good little passenger.

Once we were set for landing, the attendant did come up to me to chat. I thought she was going to apologize or try to make nice. Instead, she said she wanted to know why the airline was trying to be so nice to us by upgrading our seating arrangements. Apparently, the airline never gives upgrades, so it must have done something really horrible to us if it gave us an upgrade.

I was no longer going to be the good little passenger. So I said the first thing that came into my head. I told her my best friend was married to the airline’s chairman, and we always get upgraded.

It was a complete lie, but it was worth seeing the look of fright on the attendant’s face. I thought she was going to faint. She scurried away to talk to another attendant, who was her boss.

The next thing I know, my husband and I are surrounded by attendants offering us wine, food, fluffy pillows and blankets. It was almost comical, especially since the flight was set to land in about 10 minutes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/business/28flier.html?em=&pagewanted=print

Morgellons Research Foundation  Com

www.morgellonsresearchfoundation.com

Med Travel Worldwide Global

http://www.mmedsolution.com

• Martooni Thursday I believe the tradition started out back when I graduated college and my husband still had one more year. Since then it has morphed and changed to what it is today. Back in the day, Thursday nights were a big...
• Summer Vacation When you were in school the year was split into days between vacations. You always looked forward to days off of school and long holidays. Especially summer vacation. Summer vacation to me...at least till I was 17... meant swim team and...
• Create a Blog for Business – The Right Way! Creating a blog site is easy…once someone shows you how… Create a blog the way it should be done. I didn’t. And I’ve been paying for that mistake for the past two years as I struggled to learn the software,...
• the art of the business trip I just returned from my first business trip in almost four years. I thought I might rediscover the art of the business trip. But the art is gone.  It changed a lot post-9/11.  I was around to see that transformation...
• LG Chocolate BL40 Hands-On - CES 2010 Adriana takes a quick look at the huge 4-inch HD widescreen display of the candybar LG phone "the rest of the world" (outside the US) is enjoying: The BL40. Is there reason to be jealous? You be the judge. Filmed...

This isn’t about me,” President Barack Obama famously announced as support for his massive government takeover of health care began to falter.

Oh, but it is.

It is about him because it is his vision that has given us a so-called stimulus of staggering size and dubious value. It is his instincts that guide him to sacrifice the American economy on the altar of climatological junk science. It was his wish to run General Motors.

As with other issues, the cost to taxpayers is an annoying side issue that he and his administration simply do not want to be bothered with. Their attitude is a wave-off: How can you pester us with those trifles when we’re trying to do something titanic here?

And “titanic” is a fitting adjective, since much of what makes the American health care system the envy of the world is about to be dashed against the jagged iceberg of socialized medicine.

There is something darkly comical about these people seeking to comfort us by telling us we may keep our current health plan and our current doctors if we wish. Pardon me if I do not ooze gratitude when government chooses in its mighty benevolence to let me keep something that is a basic right.

And speaking of rights, health care is not one. It is a responsibility. It is something we should secure for ourselves, through our employers or through the open market.

That open market is about to be steamrolled by the same Obama tank brigade that flattened free-market solutions to the banking and housing problems of the last year.

As the first hot summer of the Obama era sees shoulders finally turning cold to this bum-rush of government seizures of more and more of our economy and our lives, the administration has to wonder: Are they onto us?

One can only hope.

The M.O. of this White House, on display for issues from the stimulus to climate change to health care: First, assert phony urgency; then insist that only their solutions have merit and mischaracterize opponents as seeking to “do nothing.”

It worked for the stimulus, and trillions of dollars later, some people are wondering if we’ve been had.

We have. And here they come again.

This White House’s usual logic for hastily jamming things down the public’s throat is to deny voters time to realize what is being done to them. But the health care urgency card is being played with particular ferocity, with absurd original calls for votes in both houses within mere weeks, before the August congressional recess.

They know that if members of Congress return home with the issue still pending, voters will drown them in righteous objections to a plan that brings more deserved opposition by the day.

Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina has suggested that a health care plan born of one-party rule will fail, and with it will topple this season of madness in which a silver-tongued leader with glib PR soldiers has had its way with an inattentive nation.

“It will be his Waterloo,” DeMint suggested, giving Obama the chance to divert attention from his plan’s flagging support by accusing Republicans of “playing politics.”

As if he isn’t.

Of course it’s about politics, to the extent that the political arena is where policy matters get settled. President Obama and his party have a plan to hijack one-seventh of the national economy; the Republican Party is trying to muster the spine and strength to pry government’s grubby hands from a health care system that most Americans like.

Debates are about ideas, but Barack Obama is the face and voice of this looming health care nightmare. Yes, this is about him, and it will continue to be about him as long as he continues his assault on free markets and individual liberty.

http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2009/07/26/fight-is-about-obama/

Import Auto Canada

Vancouver Canada Auto Trader

British Columbia Craig’s List

http://www.mmedsolution.com

• Michael Jackson and Me photo credit: Current News Stories It's a regular Sunday, but somehow I cannot make myself to do anything. Not because I am lazy, but because I feel kind of blue. My husband is depressed because he finally found a job...
• The Republican health care reform plan Yes, we're being ironic. There really is no Republican health care reform plan, as you probably already know. Unless, of course, you count the prattle trotted out by McCain and others who talk about needing to enact tort reform whenever...
• Economist Paul Krugman - "This Could Be 1931 - The Collapse Of EVERYTHING." I promise I won't write about this every day, and I don't know if anyone caught Real Time with Bill Maher this past weekend, but he had New York Times Columnist and Economist Paul Krugman on who voiced his concerns...
• Save Money on Health Care Need ideas and strategies for saving on health and medical care? I have some suggestions. The older we get, the more we spend on health care. Unless and until we qualify for Medicare, it probably won't get any better. Even...
• Healthy Eating Plans for Increased Nutrition When it comes to getting healthy and losing weight, one of the best things that you can do is to add healthy eating plans to your lifestyle. If you want to lose weight, build a healthier body or just improve...

With all the current emphasis on providing basic if not socialized medicine and medical care to the residents of the United States it is always interesting to look at the basic social mores of other groups that have adopted this way of life – this means of providing medical care.

The line in the former Soviet Union was that “They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.” During Stalinist times of the Soviet Union the one ( if not only ) safe means of providing criticism of current economic or social conditions or of providing a comment on the current situation that the citizens were living with and through was through humour – the telling of a joke . It was considered safe tradition. Nothing new here. The basis of most fairy tales are based in political or situational humor – to make light of something very serious and dark. The tale of “Humpty Dumpty . sat on a wall, Humpty had a great fall”- was a description of the Royalty at the time – “Off with your head could be the edict in a flash”. “Ring around the Rosie … A pocket full of poesy – Hush they all fall down” relates tales of the “Black Plague” which caused untold numbers of death and disease in the dark ages.

In the same way Canadians with their health care systems , find that their only recourse to poor service levels with corresponding staggering growth of bureaucracies and their infrastructures and systems find that their only recourse seems to be the telling of jokes and humor related to the current state of the Canadian
“Health Care System” and Systems.

Medical economist M. Labovitch pointedly notes that the butt of the anger is safely directed at doctors rather than taking a risk to the health care of the teller of the tale and their families.

Bureaucrats it seems , while putting in their full days , compiling reports and printing graphs and charts on the high end colour laser printer , have little sense of humour and the telling of jokes:

Five Canadian Surgeons are discussing who makes the best patients to operate on.

The first, an Ontario surgeon says, ‘I like to see accountants on my operating table, because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered.’

The second, a Quebec surgeon responds, ‘Yeah, but you should try electricians! Everything inside them is colour coded.’

The third a B.C. surgeon says, ‘No, I really think librarians are the best; everything inside them is in alphabetical order.’

The fourth, an Alberta surgeon chimes in: ‘You know, I like construction workers…those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over.

But the fifth, a Newfoundland surgeon shut them all up when he observed: ‘You’re all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on. There’s no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains and no spine, and the head and the ass are interchangeable.

At least Canadians currently have the escape valve of private medical care in the US afforded to them at present , at least for the time being.

Med Travel Medical Tours

New York USA Discount Loose

Hotels Near Winnipeg Manitoba Canada bus-stops to St. Boniface Hospital

http://www.mmedsolution.com

• 4 Habits for Saving Money on Routine Family Medical Care The following guest column is from Paul at www.healthharbor.com.  HealthHarbor is a site devote to helping people be smarter consumers of healthcare.  It provides ideas and guidance on saving money on healthcare, getting the most from your health coverage, and...
• Health Care Costs in Retirement A difficult task in retirement planning and budgeting is estimating health care costs. We know those costs will be significant compared to our earlier years. That is one of the downsides of growing old. But it is important to have...
• Doctors Should Spend More Time Online A recent survey has reported that many patients  turn to the Internet after being diagnosed by a doctor or physician to learn more information.  In 2009, a Harris Interactive survey reported that seventy-eight percent of U.S. adults went online and used...
• Don’t Let Your Favorite Pet Break Your Budget For many people having a pet is virtually the same as adding another member to your family. Like every other family member, your pet will have needs to be met that will require you to budget for its needs. Your...
• Brass Health and Beauty Are you aware of the fact that the health and beauty of your brass instruments requires that you put extra time and effort into their care? The well being of your brass instruments depends on your willingness to take care...