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OK  I know the people on the show know this:

It is all Calculus!!!!

Geomotry, area, slope of curves (trig)  are all calculus you just remember the short cut 4/3*Pi*r^3  not understanding that that is an integral of the area of a circle.

Stats and probability:  Calculus,  You just forget that you are finding the area under that probability to give you your chance.

Physics, engineering, all the sciences:  D=V*T integrates to D=V0T+.5at^2  to allow you to calulate speed.   Electronics L R C  is the perfect model for a diff eq.  

Finance:  A= Pe^(rt)   (continuous compunding interest)  Is a diff eq.  of course the banks would rather compund interest you owe this way and interest they owe at a rate less than this  as it makes them money.

Distince = Rate x time

integrate: 

d=Vi *t + .5*a*t^2

(Distance with acceleration)

Force = Mass x Acceleration

but what if the mass is alrady traveling at 200 miles an hour does it not add to the force?   Well we have forgot that this too is a diff eq and a more complete formula is (looking a lot like distance):

F= Ma + .5Mv^2

posted 2 years, 6 months ago
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Intransition:

It is just your kind of double speaking that I abhor!  What exactly are you disagreeing with--these vague references to to details you imply you have read--since I did not state a preference for any plan.  

I stated that

• 1) I pay $12,000 per year for health coverage while I am the healthiest I will ever be and use the least amount of healthcare; 
• 2) When I do become unemployed either by losing my job, becoming too sick to work, or by retirement the Insurance company will LOCK in all those profits they make off of me and I will move to a SOCIAL health care plan; 
• 2a) BTW: Assuming 30 years of work at the current rate and 6.5% return that is about $1.1Million http://www.planningtips.com/cgi-bin/savings.pl and my BCBS policy is capped at $2Million so how much do they make off every person who makes it to retirement... for that matter how much do they make off the wife who after 20 years of working and in perfect health is diagnosed with late stage terminal breast cancer and dies 2 months later?; 
• 3)  I have never chosen my heath insurance provider! PERIOD! Have you, or did you have the illusion of choice:  to choose between the HMO plan and the BCBS plan; or perhaps between the 80/20 plan and the 70/30 plan from the same company.  SO WHAT INSURANCE CHOICE are they trying to preserve?  I have always been able to choose my doctor... that is as long as they are in plan or it is a "60/40" split on an approved amount...  Oh and the insurance company gets to decide what is covered; 
• 4)  Finally I noticed that as with the TARP--and the blue tarps covering roofs in New Orleans Louisiana--, federal drug research, federal education research and grants, bank bailouts, auto bailouts, wars in oil nations, etc., and healthcare my government socializes all the costs and all the losses, and somehow transfers all the profits--and a large chunk of debt--to private for profit corporations who are well connected usually with former Chief Officers of said mega-lo-corp in the government and administration.
• And a final statement: 

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

posted 3 years, 10 months ago
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Unfortunately the conversation is skewed.

 

There is a difference between “Health Care” and Insurance: 

I have heard the rhetoric that the “government is taking over health care.”  However, their main attack is against a public INSURANCE option.

 

I have never had a choice on Insurance.:

 In my employer provided health care at a business of 10 people there was no choice in provider, as a State employee in Eugene there is no choice.  Even in Portland there is Keiser or BCBS for state employees and the state is moving to self-insured.  

 

I pay over $12,000 per year to an Insurance company:

My health insurance premium is over $1,000 per month, a line item printed on my paycheck every month!  I am tired of people talking about how Employer pays for health care.  Ever dollar in premium paid is on behalf of the individual, and the month after I am no longer employed I will have no health care; all the money paid into my insurance will become profit for a private company and I will ultimately—either through indigence, or Medicare—will be on a socialized insurance, when I need it the most. 

As with most things my government does they have privatized the profits, and socialized the cost!

 S-Eugene

posted 3 years, 10 months ago
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