Cooper: it would be cheaper to fly medicare patient fr Miami to MN for treatment. Differential spending across nation.
Cooper pts out that all House bills fail Obama’s criteria. Don’t cover everyone, cost $ etc.
Cooper wonders why we named healthcare program for poisonous snake — COBRA
Cooper’s flacking the Healthy Americans Act.
FYI I have always like that bill. Curious to hear how much of it he thinks could pass.
Cooper: we need large risk pools to better manage risk, improve costs.
Cooper explaining all the reform bills on the table. He is great at the teaching thing.
Cooper calls diabetes a noncontagious epidemic. So true.
Cooper shows a slide projecting health care spending will be nearly 50 percent of GDP by 2070.
Cooper: there are some for profit corps whose business model is to make you angry so you’ll keep watching & they can sell more ads.
(talking about media on left and right)
Ooh someone asking about the agribusiness connection to health. Great question.
Making cinnamon ice cream tonight. Just going to have a taste, tho. Will eat it tomorrow with baked apples.
Going to teach the kids to play bullshit tonight. One of my all-time fave card games. Don’t worry, I won’t teach them to curse.
First: Feeding the hungry masses. Later: Consolidating some content source research for a client.
