by Peter Lloyd for Creative Experts, Health Care, IT Experts
Recipe for Disaster: Start with a deadly flu epidemic looming on the horizon. Add a good portion of the workforce without paid sick days. Mix in about 47 million Americans without health care coverage.
The Result: Catastrophe!
First, workers who deal with the public—waiters, teachers, school bus drivers, child care givers, store cashiers—get the H1N1 bug. Then they come to work sick because they don’t get paid when they miss work. When their kids get sick, they have no option but to send them off to school or day care. You can’t afford to stay home, when working every day of the week brings in just enough to feed and shelter your family. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 60 Minutes, H1N1, sick days
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by Peter Lloyd for Health Care, Job Benefits
I’ve been collecting cartoons on the subject of health care while posting serious overviews and commentaries. For this reason—in the most tragic dramas, there’s always a scene of comic relief. Even if it’s dark humor or bitter irony. So, in the spirit of comic relief here are links to seven health care cartoons.
What does this have to do with your job search? Just this. If you’ve tried everything else, maybe there’s a job for you in political cartooning. To see if this is the case, I’ll describe a situation or suggest a title for the cartoon. Before you take the link to it, try to imagine what you might draw. Then compare your idea to those of the greats, like Tom Toles or Mike Smith. Read the rest of this entry »
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by Peter Lloyd for Health Care, Job Benefits
Should all Americans have the right to health care? For those of us honestly and seriously interested in answering this currently burning question—whether as a job benefit or as a moral or political issue—check out Right to Health Care. Here is a remarkably balanced point of reference from which anyone can dig deeper into just about any aspect of the debate.
In addition to the side-by-side pros and cons, procon.org provides an overview and background, footnotes and sources, readers’ comments, images, and videos. I’ve been there, browsed there, read there, and filled out a survey. I can’t absorb it all, but every so often, I plan to take a break from my job search and learn more. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, US Senator Ted Kennedy
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by Peter Lloyd for Health Care, Job Benefits
T. R. Reid has a pretty good creative job. And, working for the New York Times, his job benefits probably include adequate health care. But instead of taking his sore shoulder to his approved health care provider, he went around the world looking for more than a cure. He set out to compare health care systems. In my mind, his search was something like shopping for a hammer, a pair of shoes, or a toaster.
Imagine yourself in a big box store shopping for a toaster. So many alternatives! But if you’ve been toasting bread over the stove, you can be fairly confident that what’s on the shelf will work better than what you’re doing. It’s a good bet that the store shelf presents the best of toaster evolution. So why continue toasting over the stove? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: T. R. Reid
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by Peter Lloyd for Health Care, Job Benefits
In your next job search break, if you get the urge to take a few minutes to try and understand the current bank of health care proposals, you might want to look at “Confused about health care reform? Join the club” from the Baltimore Sun.
I don’t know about you, but I’m confused. No doubt our health care benefits are going to change. We may still have time to influence our representatives. But it’s difficult not to be cynical about that possibility. For one thing, in my effort to form my opinion, I’ve tried to find side-by-side comparisons of what’s out there, but it seems impossible. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Baucus Bill, Health Care
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by Peter Lloyd for Health Care, Job Benefits
Maybe that’s not such an accurate headline. How about “Nobody’s Telling All the Truth All the Time”? It’s politics, after all.
In an effort to sort out fact from fiction in this series of posts, which began with “Can We Talk About Health Care? Rationally?” I’ve offered some widely accepted numbers arranged in customizable interactive graphs and a level-headed video, “The scientific arguments for US healthcare reform,” from New Scientist.
I recommended the slide show Healthcare Napkins All, which explains in words and drawings how health care providers and insurers end up at odds in the battle for our dollars.
There’s much more out there and more keeps coming. But just like an employer who 86es resumés that contain typos, there comes the time to tune out voices that repeatedly misinform. The first to go were the most outrageous. Read the rest of this entry »
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by Peter Lloyd for Health Care, Job Benefits
There are few voices arguing that US health care should be left to continue as is. It’s the proposed solutions that put us at odds. We who are employed, those of us looking for jobs, plus large and small employers all want a system that will keep us alive and healthy, if only so that we can continue to find good jobs or keep good employees.
As proposed solutions emerge, we hear claims that this or that reform will bankrupt us. Counterclaims argue that the way things are will also bankrupt us, only sooner. The overwhelming majority of those involved in the debate agree that costs are too high and heading for greater heights. Read the rest of this entry »
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