Exhibit A is, of course, UnitedHealthcare, who, like other private insurance companies, makes money as a toll booth between patient and physician—by aggressively selling relatively inexpensive policies, then works overtime to deny or delay the payment of claims—despite the best efforts and advocacy of healthcare providers, such as the good people at Bassett.…
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Scrapping the project would be ill advised—both from the standpoint of precedence and the abandonment of the clear public benefit in having a dock. The village is building the dock for the anonymous person in the wheel chair, for the unknown child with a fishing pole, the boater dropping off a passenger, the anxious bride and her wedding photographer.…
Regarding the complaints made by the neighbors: You live next to a very popular public park—with picnic tables, trash receptacles, park benches, an award-winning landscape buffer by the lake, walkways, a bandstand, all with a spectacular public view of a gorgeous lake.…
Some countries, such as Australia, treat skin cancer as a public health risk—and have legislated accordingly: banning tanning beds and requiring sun protection measures, particularly for children. The Japanese are obsessive about staying out of the sun, as their porcelain complexions attest.…
In Bassett’s 102 year history, Staci Thompson is the first CEO that is not a physician. A physician is held to a higher ethical standard than a business person. They teach ethics in medical school, in business school they teach accounting. Doctors relate to each other in ways that non-doctors cannot fathom.…
Comments ranged from support of the current sign law and concerns that the banners might be too distracting and therefore likely to cause accidents, to those in favor of the proposed amendments so that veterans could be further honored here in the village, to the need for funding for veterans services.…
Letter from Chip Northrup Gun Laws Should Be Sane, Sensible My company makes marksmanship training simulators for the military. We use military weapons, all of which are variants of the AR 15, as the simulation controller, so that the Marine or soldier can use their service weapon in the simulation. The rifles are machine guns capable of firing up to 800 rounds per minute. To develop the simulations at our offices in Texas and North Carolina, we use the HK…
This season’s shows included the delightfully puerile farce, “The Pirates of Penzance,” which should appeal to younger audiences, and “Calisto,” a baroque gender-bender that didn’t play at La Scala until 2017, coincidentally the same year that “Elizabeth Cree,” an experimental whodunit based on Jack the Ripper, premiered.…
Letter from Chip Northrup Jim Seward Was a ‘Rare Politician’ Jim Seward was one of those rare politicians that put his constituents over his personal political ambitions. His agenda was to do right by everyone in his district. He did so for more than 30 years without rancor or bombast. No conspiracy theories, no scandalous behavior. When I lobbied him to ban fracking, I brought him a hat from Texas. “You know, Chip, I don’t accept gifts valued at over…
The first convention I attended was for Goldwater in 1964. The national convention was contested—Goldwater had not won a majority of delegates before the convention. Same drill in 1968 in Chicago, candidate Humphrey was chosen at the convention, as Gerald Ford was in 1976 over Reagan. Not coincidentally, the winners of these messily contested conventions all went on to lose in the general election.…