There was a move made a while back called “The Falcon and the Snowman” and it was about who selling America out and it was a good movie and the soundtrack alone was equally as good as the movie and one song that sticks in my brain today is this one as a “normal” environment we have known for years is changing and are we in a place that is no longer familiar to us in many ways…in watching our government with trying to agree and collaborate with solutions, which doesn’t seem to be going very well, this song keeps kicking around in my head (lyrics below) “this could be a miracle”? How many snowmen are there out there? Anyway the lyrics seem to somewhat say this is not the same as the country I grew up in as we watch current events and values get replaced with new ones that seem to leave out some of the greatness of the past, inequality seems to be the big one that comes to mind.
A little piece of you
The little peace in me
Will die
For this is not America
Blossom falls to bloom
This season
Promise not to stare
Too long
For this is not a miracle
There was a time
A storm that blew so pure
For this could be the biggest sky
And i could have
The faintest idea
Snowman melting
From the inside
Falcon spirals
To the ground
So bloody red
Tomorrows clouds
A little piece of you
The little piece in me
Will die
For this is not America
There was a time
A wind that blew so young
For this could be the biggest sky
And i could have the faintest idea
This could be the biggest sky
This could be a miracle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJRF8xGzvj4
more of these types of charges are appearing on medical bills, especially ones set up for outpatient services. Sometimes insurers do not pay the fees and thus some patients begin looking for doctors who do not have this charge. Facility fees are amounting up to a billion dollars a year that Medicare pays, so you wonder what is accomplished here as practices can charge more that are owned by hospitals too so does Medicare get the double whammy when they are trying to save money? 
drug is pretty hefty with warnings as well and is to be used after other medications have failed and carries the black box warning as it is considered a new class of drugs and there could be more deaths attributed to it’s use. This type of TB is rare in the US but growing in other countries and TB is spread through the air. BD 
This is pretty good and I felt compelled to include this as she’s the one before the programmers, in other words, Quants build models and programmers design and build it. In both videos you will find a lot of answers as she’s good and if you read here then you have probably heard a lot of this from a programming side. She’s the first step ahead and created the model that programmers use to write software. She has had a very interesting background and she digs in to big data and that subject I think be renamed, the “data scientist”…same thoughts where in the world do you find these people. You can find her blog here, MathBabe, like the name. 
Avoid doing harm she states. She still models and knows the benefits when done correctly. Nerds are never in charge. I just talked with someone the other day where a study was done and the data was not supplied to substantiate the abstract and without the data, the recipient determined there were over 500 million available models, data counts and you just can’t take to the bank a report or study you see in the news without offering someone the opportunity to confirm the data origins, etc. 
eally useful model to make a lot of money”…you’ve had heard something like that here before:) People are trained to think of mathematics as a game you have to “win”, the culture in finance. No Quants are ever expected to answer or account for the consequences on the effects of normal people. Modeling has gone crazy and it has and it will. 
public woke up. It’s not that we are really that smart it’s just that we have “been there done that” way before a consumer even hears the concept, why we are geeks:) What is great about her videos is that she does for modeling about the same as I do for programming and there’s nothing like hands on as everyone else just reads other stuff and repeats it. She addresses both sides of healthcare data and says the clinical side is great and of course I agree, but then we have the health insurers who use segmentation in the opposite direction. 
