Universal health care won’t work in the United States. People who compare United States to other countries need to realize that unlike other countries the population here is a lot higher, the population growth rate is almost as high as India and add to that the largest immigrant population every year. You don’t need be an expert economist to realize that the costs would only mean one thing higher taxes. With the US loosing out to developing countries, who for uninitiated now have highly skilled labourers, with respect to tax breaks would only make these countries more and more attractive everyday for companies in the United States.

From where I come from, Bengaluru, health care is mostly a non issue. India does have universal health care but it has lot to be desired, the quality of services provided there is what you would expect from a third world country. So why is it a non issue? It so happens that the solution problem comes from private enterprises and not the government.  Let’s consider Narayana Hrudayalaya.  It is a state of the art facility that treats people with heart ailments. The elite , the rich, the poor all them use it. If you can’t afford to pay you are not turned down. You don’t need to have an insurance policy. So if you are think they must have some incompetent doctors you are wrong they are some of the best. A lot them have trained, worked in this very country. They have successfully implemented Tele-medicine. People from neighbouring countries use this service.

There is no way a country like India or the United States could provide good universal health care.  Ironically a once socialist country is now teaching capitalism to the one it learnt from by providing a fertile ground for entrepreneurs.

While the debate continues here is an idea for people in the United States to reduce their health care costs. Only a few people know that with a HSA plan you get health care services outside the United States. If you need to get a major surgery you better off getting it done in India. Your costs will be minimal and you can use tax free dollars from HSA account. Better yet the insurance company will incur any expenses beyond your deductible.

You can read more about Narayana Hrudayala here and here .

When women began to create wealth we accused them of witchcraft and burnt them. When they dressed as men and won wars for their country we executed them. And even today they are discriminated in every walk of life and are rarely treated equally at most workplaces. People are yet to realize they are equally good at this noble deed as are men are. More so the feminist should understand  they need to do a great deal to fight for this right and educate the younger ones. Instead, unfortunately, symbolisms like sexual freedom became higher priority in the 20th Century. It is no wonder that a lot of “Real Americans” believe that feminism is all about promiscuous sex and so do most girls getting into colleges. Glorifying these symbolisms isn’t going to help any young girl to understand what it means to be a feminist. The freedom to make their own choices in any matters at hand is an important one but it isn’t the most important.

It is unfortunate and sad that we even need to educate people on this. Think about all the wonderful advances we would have made if we hadn’t erred in our thinking.

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If are interested in working on it and are comfortable with Javascript, Objective-J and Java please send me an email. You would be the first employee and I assure you won’t be disappointed when you hear about what we are doing. We need someone who can work in San Diego full time. Working remote is not an option.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=397929

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVnRzEjpUmE

These people on Segaways are  called Safety Ambassador and job function is listed as follows “Ambassadors act as an extra set of “eyes and ears” for law enforcement and property owners.” The cops hate them, they can’t give tickets to anyone and I have never seen them doing anything but cruise around.

Nobody would buy San Diego bonds a couple of years ago, it seems nobody will in a year again.

So how about this Mr. Sanders, you fire those people and sell those Segaways at discount to people like me.