Here’s a little reminder that we are prisoners of war, trapped by public spending priorities that put paying for a stockpile of cruise missiles way ahead of providing access to good health care for all.
CNBC recently repacked a story from AARP Magazine on best foreign retirement spots. High on the list was the Central Valley, Atenas, Costa Rica.
Here’s the pitch from CNBC:
Costa Rica has lush tropical foliage and beautiful beaches but there’s one thing that really sets it apart: Health care.
Because the country doesn’t have an active military, they invest a lot in healthcare.
Yup. Stop waging wars around the planet and you can easily afford to provide national health care. Costa Rica can do it. Couldn’t we? Shouldn’t we?
Let’s see. Bill Harby, formerly of Volcano and now in Switzerland, flagged a Hawaii Tribune-Herald story about an email scam that hit Rep. Jerry Chang. According to the story, it started with an “official sounding” email notice claiming to be from Verizon, asking for his email address, user name, and password. The scam unfolds from there.
The problem, Harby says, is that the Tribune-Herald never clarifies that the email wasn’t really from Verizon.
That email was almost certainly a scam, not really from Verizon, but by you reporting that Chang’s email did shut down implies that Verizon did indeed shut down his account because he didn’t supply them with the requested info. I highly doubt that this is true.
You have done your readers a significant disservice here. Some readers of your article who receive emails like the one Chang received are probably going to be more likely to give out their private info. I strongly recommend you quickly write a follow-up with comment from Verizon declaring that they never send out such emails, and also giving a possible explanation for Chang’s email shutting down.
And they’re off! Saturday’s fundraiser for the American Diabetes Association drew lots of corporate support, and corporate banners were displayed along fences in the park. A reader noted a “Team Mufi” banner, tucked between Hawaiian Airlines and Bank of Hawaii.
“Not sure what that means,” he wrote in an email accompanying the photo.
I think it means the campaign is underway.
Finally, former islander Karen Waygood recommended this video, with the comment: “I want one!”
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Cruise missiles or good health? Cruise missiles win hands down.
It’s about profits, Ian. Obscene profits. Good healthcare would be for us, not for profits. And yes, it is us vs. them. Right now we have profitable healthcare, obscenely profitable healthcare. And as many have pointed out, it makes more profit by denying health services to us.
HMSA, Spoke with them about administrative cost reduction and asked if they were participating in furloughs, HMSA said no were not part of the State of Hawaii! I asked what state are you operating in?….haha. I also asked the State Insurance Commissioner who regulates HMSA if his office is furloughed on the occasional Friday he said yes! Ironic that the gandor does not follow the goose.
ok. . . having lived in the states for a good chunk of my life (as well as japan and costa rica) i would agree that it’s all about profits; no doubt. however, every place has its glitches and costa rica isn’t without its own. i would much rather see my money going to healthcare than some goofy war, though it isn’t always so clear-cut. there are problems in costa rica with the system just like anyplace else. don’t hold up a system from what you’ve read, or conversely, tear it down.
that video reminds me of the line “she left me for a guy with an above ground pool.”