Jul 01 2009
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Squirrel of the day :)
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#attnycfail
3G Speed And Reliability Results By City
Percentage of 1-minute performance tests in which service was available, uninterrupted, and faster than dial-up speed:
- Verizon in NYC: 100%
- Sprint in NYC: 90%
- AT&T in NYC: 65%
It doesn’t just *seem* like AT&T only works half the time.
via ericmortensen
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My position on healthcare reform - immediate and total overhaul
I’ve been posting quite a lot about healthcare reform and to clarify my position, I’m reposting a reply to a comment received this morning:
In a nutshell: I support universal health coverage and I’ve been vocal about this position. My biggest peeve of the moment is that everyone involved, including the President, get themselves bogged down too early in details.
Universal health coverage is a societal choice that must be made in conscience. I support it as a matter of morals and economics.
I wish President Obama would explain it in simple terms: young people especially MUST participate in the health coverage by contributing $$ now as part of an intergenerational social contract. Bluntly, pay $$ now when you’re not sick for those who are sick and in turn other will pay for your needs later.
This basic “pay it forward” rule is not insurance but a social contract to be entered into.
Do I trust them to do the right thing ? Of course not ! I’ve been a heavier than most user of healthcare: I have atypical cystic fibrosis and my wife and I must go through IVF to conceive. I’ve been through 2 surgeries in the past few months and so has my wife. She’s constantly
on the phone repairing the insurance’s billing mistakes. I spent a good hour last week
One key change that must come as part of the total overhaul of the health ecosystem is patient data.
I had the opportunity to watch a roundtable discussion on Monday at Personal Democracy Forum: From Participatory Politics to Participatory Medicine, moderated by Esther Dyson. I’ll post the video of the roundtable on this blog and on personaldemocracyforum.com.
Go to http://www.healthdatarights.org/ and endorse the declaration of data rights if you agree with it.
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“ everyone wants a WebKit-based browser. It’s inexcusable RIM doesn’t get it. It’s inexcusable that people put up with a 2003 operating system with so many limitations and restrictions it would make Ahmadinejad jealous.
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this is a great rant by boy genius. you must win the hearts and minds of developers. in the end, consumers follow developers because they build the cool applications.
What happened to Research In Motion and where are they going? : Boy Genius Report
(via fred-wilson)
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This is why an "incremental" approach to healthcare reform makes no sense #fb
“Last week, a former Cigna executive warned at a Senate hearing on health insurance that lawmakers should be careful about the role they gave private insurers in any new system, saying the companies were too prone to “confuse their customers and dump the sick.”
“The number of uninsured people has increased as more have fallen victim to deceptive marketing practices and bought what essentially is fake insurance,” Wendell Potter, the former Cigna executive, testified.”
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#mediaquake takes down Joost - lessons to be learned
Great analysis by @om:So what went wrong? Quite a few things, actually. Other startups should learn from the mistakes of Joost and avoid repeating them, such as:
Too Big, Too Fast
Too Geographically Spread Out
Not Enough Focus
Too Much Hype Too Soon
Slow to Fix Its Technology Problems
Client vs. Browser
Didn’t Press Its Early-Mover Advantage
Big Media Dis-Connect
Hulu
Chasing Its Own Tail
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The Economist on US healthcare: lack of competition #fb
“A second big factor pushing up health costs is the lack of competition among operators of American hospitals. Thanks to a wave of consolidation in recent years, argues Harvard’s Ms Herzlinger, “most parts of the United States are dominated by oligopolistic hospital systems.” George Halvorson, who heads Kaiser Permanente, insists that “there is an almost total lack of price competition among providers.” ”Please forward and RT !
