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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 06:43 PM) What trade did he overpay with his good prospects? sigh...edwin...you just spoiled my mood by reminding me...sigh...i'm going to slink away.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 09:26 AM) Americans work at CERN. The Tevatron is still giving some valuable information despite being shut down last year because they haven't been able to go through all of the data. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/...-tevatron-data/ Here's the story of how we could have done this a decade ago, in Texas, for less money, but Congress pulled the plug.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 04:50 PM) The Economist has a piece on the LIBOR scandal: http://www.economist.com/node/21558260 I still gotta ask, why isn't anyone in jail? Well this one did just break. In this country no one will go to jail, but the Brits might be willing to enforce their laws more stringently, we'll see.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 05:37 PM) Steve Kyler ‏@stevekylerNBA RT @VALANTIS_X: any chance bulls get both lee & billups? ---> hearing CLee has an offer from Houston for $32 mill... Bulls can't get close Billups reportedly back to the Clippers.

QUOTE (SexiAlexei @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 05:44 PM) From what I've read, he's being offered around $7 M a season, where (if I understand correctly) the MLE is ~$5 M. That's a large gap, and I can see why he wouldn't sign, but I don't understand why I haven't seen anything about the Bulls contacting him. They were willing to trade for him in the past, couldn't they offer up a sign and trade? I get the owner of the Grizzlies hates the Bulls, but is he stupid enough to not even consider this? I'm a fan of Mayo from college, so I want to see him here, maybe this is just my dumb ass idea to get him here, and overrating him. Yes, the Bulls could attempt to sign and trade for him but you'd have to give them something to make it worth while, since the Grizz would have to take salary on in the process.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 04:40 PM) It reminds me of the commercial where the guy is choosing between the nice new looking parachute, and the one with string and duct tape. Hell, if you just wanted to go with...waht do we need in the bullpen more...the answer is a righty.

DISBELIEF.

DID WE JUST SWEEP THE TEAM WITH 50 WINS AND THE BEST RECORD IN THE LEAGUE? I THINK WE DID.

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 03:41 PM) It was pretty hot yesterday too though, that can't be it Yesterday was much later in the day. This game is right at the hottest part of the day. I'm not sure I'd walk up for this one.

QUOTE (Baron @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 03:29 PM) I have no problem with trading for one. Any ideas on a RH hitting backup C that might be available?

QUOTE (Baron @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 03:23 PM) So that means dont try it? There is seriously no reason to expect that Phegley would step in as a part time player and somehow be more effective than Flowers in that role. Phegley's been on the DL for so much of his minor league career that he's averaged under 300 PA's a year. If you're looking for a backup C upgrade who can take that 1 day a week job and have more success it's going to be through the trade market.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 03:14 PM) 1) increase supply of doctors. flood the market by giving out green cards to anyone that can get a medical degree. establish a clear path by which a foreign-born, foreign-trained individual can receive a green card and a medical license. prices will sink like a stone. I'll add agreement on this part too.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 03:10 PM) it's something they will never address. Except for the multitude of ideas in the PPACA. I can't find the quote right now but I had one in 2010 of a health care economist saying that out of the 10 or so best ideas to reduce health insurance costs, 9 of them were included in some form in the PPACA, and the only one that wasn't was a public option.

There are 2 problems that haven't been touched upon in the discussion of malpractice here. One of them is that there is an insurance company providing the malpractice coverage, and that insurance company can make decisions about the cost of its product that maintains their profitability, thus leading to increases in cost during downturns. You can actually see this in action in California, which requires medical malpractice insurers to open up their books to a state regulator and has repeatedly forced the medical malpractice insurers to refund money to medical providers that the government judged was overcharged. That's also one reason why instituting malpractice settlement caps has somewhere between a negligible and no impact on the cost a state pays for health care, or on the number of doctors in the state, or any other prediction one might make about what those caps would do. The other issue...we actually have way too much malpractice in this health care system.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 11:34 AM) If i'm reading him right, he's basically arguing that it's the way Americans utilize the health industry, not the health industry itself, that is the problem. Which goes back to my point that we spend so much because from the start we're more unhealthy and need more care. I 100% agree that we don't use our healthcare as efficiently as we should (i'm a good example of this, as I pay for health insurance but haven't been to a doctor in about a decade) and when we do it's for problems that we shouldn't have in the first place. The part in bold is pretty much the opposite of what they're saying. The French have behaviors that make themselves less healthy...higher smoking rates, but they deal with those problems in a more cost effective way, by making effective treatment outcomes more of a priority at the government level. The end result winds up being enormous monetary savings and better health outcomes even when considering the same, self-induced condition.

I don't believe anyone here ever called it that.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 09:46 AM) I was just reading a story about this (from a few years ago) yesterday, about how some countries like France, with that amazing healthcare system, have higher death rates for more "preventative" cancers because the costs of the drugs/tests to "prevent" or "control" the cancers early on are way too expensive. So, they don't offer them. Do we really want the government deciding what prescription drugs we can/can't get, especially potentially life-savings drugs, because of cost? Especially once everyone is on-board the "oh the gov't will provide everything I need in life!" bandwagon? Fareed Zakaria had an article yesterday that hit on our recent conversation:

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 07:09 AM) This. Anyone who thinks Nash is done needs to open their eyes. The guy keeps himself in awesome shape. Huge get for Lakers. He still has a few years left. Still think one of Bynum/Gasol is gone though. He's clearly not done...but it remains to be seen how much he can bring to a Lakers team that really is bereft of youth.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 4, 2012 -> 10:16 PM) Well, if the Heat get Ray Allen, it won't matter much. Still, I've had enough of this crap. The Lakers do what they do, fine. But I'm sick of the excuses for the Bulls (balta). Yes, if only the Bulls had pulled off a sign and trade for a PG in his late 30's, they'd be the top of the league this year.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 01:30 AM) At that point in time, Jenks had been awful all year and didn't have a 3 year, $27 million contract. He would have been pitching mopup for the past month until he got his s*** straightened out, and then when he never did, he would have been traded or released. JJ Putz would have been my closer. It also seems like there was some personal stuff going on with Bobby that Ozzie didn't want to deal with. Maybe involving some of Ozzie's kids. Either way....Bobby didn't get penalized for his lack of whatever it was that he was lacking, when a lot of other guys would get penalized for less.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 4, 2012 -> 04:00 PM) They're matching Lin's offer that he got from Houston. Why do they need Nash? Sign-and trade Lin to Houston? I didn't see that Houston had agreed to an offer with Lin?

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jul 4, 2012 -> 03:14 PM) Is it me or are the Knicks getting f***ed in this deal? Didn't Shumpert have the same injury as Rose?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 4, 2012 -> 02:07 PM) Even more impressive... on the season .344 runners on with .809 OPSC, .370 RISP and .854 OPS, RISP 2 outs .313 and .739. Which might tell you that some of his struggles early in the season were simply a lack of mental focus, and that he was ready to step up when a real opportunity presented itself.