Would love to see it - for cloud files - and all swift deployments (the whole cloud files source is open sourced as part of openstack). let us know if we can help in any way.
1Password's nice, but I've found Sxipper [1] to be better if all I need to use is Firefox. Sxipper has a really nice way of handling password changes, multiple accounts, and comment forms.
It doesn't, but I think you can do the back-of-the-napkin math yourself. Baby Boomers are the 80 million "pig in the python" and they starting to retire right about now (2007-2009).
The GOP has already targeted "rationing" as the evil word of the debate. Any talk of it will be demonized. I still have no clue what the answer is, but you are right, at some point we have to make calls at what point in the exponential cost curve do we say, "it is time to die." that is a tough one.
Too true. Especially considering that we ourselves are in many cases not even allowed to make this decision for ourselves.
Right now, I'd settle for just the right to say "I'd like a quadrupal shot of morphine please so that an extended stay in a miserable nursing home won't bankrupt my whole family."
Added the link to my list of reading. Looks very interesting. I do share your cynicism that we have no tolerance for real change politically. The charge of socialism meets every single proposal that involves a little more government involvement.
Lack of government involvement is not the problem with U.S. healthcare. There is government intervention everywhere. My rule of thumb for determining whether an industry is a free market or not, is that I ask the question, "Can I start a business to solve the problem? Or am I legally prevented or constrained from doing so?" In the U.S. I am legally barred from implementing most of my business ideas that would fix the healthcare system, so I do not consider it a free market.
The problem with U.S. politics in general is that it is fractured. Policy is determined by the interplay of powerful, organized factions. Any government intervention gets captured by these factions, and the policy ends up hurting the general interest rather than making things better.
NO ONE WANTS A FREE MARKET SOLUTION FOR HEALTHCARE.
get over it.
a free market solution means dying baby gets turned away when parent has no money. otherwise it is not a market solution. no one wants this. no one. move to somalia, you can implement your plan there, life is cheap.
healthcare is not a business. no civil society is going to let you decline cusomters who cannot pay when it comes to keeping the baby alive.
Reputation-based consumer feedback isn't a desirable mechanism in an industry where unsatisfied customers are dead customers (as opposed to e.g. dead batteries).
