steve_ellis - Slashdot User

Comment Re:How about they just scrap it entirely? (Score 1) 429

by steve_ellis on Monday October 21, 2013 @06:44PM (#45194957) Attached to: DHHS Preparing 'Tech Surge' To Fix Remaining Healthcare.gov Issues

This is because the care offered by the NHS is already to a high standard. Private providers need to compete in order to make people feel that additional insurance has value.

Apparently feeding & providing water to patients is gold-plated service, far beyond the "high standard" that NHS offers: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287332/Nearly-1-200-people-starved-death-NHS-hospitals-nurses-busy-feed-patients.html

Comment Re:so..... (Score 1) 343

by steve_ellis on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @01:33AM (#32896274) Attached to: Infants Ingest 77 Times the Safe Level of Dioxin

Luckily, since the infinite wisdom of our congress has instituted a new tax on tanning salons, the incidence of melanoma among US caucasian girls will now go back down a bit. Coincidentally, tanning beds were introduced in the US about 1980, and can triple the risk of melanoma (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/05/27/tanning.booth.melanoma/).

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