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August 8

jeffbot published a blog entry.

You Know Medical Tourism has Hit the Big Time When:

OK, yeah, it's been on magazine covers, featured on 60 Minutes. But when Robin Cook uses medical tourism as the backdrop in his new medical thriller, "Foreign Bodies," ... well, who keeps up with med...

8/8/2008 5:30:30 PM

July 1

jeffbot took a stand.

It is not necessary to sacrifice liberty for security.

7/1/2008 5:18:03 PM

June 17

jeffbot published a blog entry.

AMA Weighs in on Medical Tourism

The American Medical Association has released guidelines for medical travel and tourism. This is pretty big news, in the part of the world that concerns itself with the globalization of medical care a...

6/17/2008 12:19:34 PM

June 11

jeffbot published a blog entry.

The Benchleys of Nantucket

The "first" Robert Benchley was the one I thought I sort of knew, as much as you can know someone who died 11 years before you were born. He wrote brilliantly and hilariously for The New Yorker and Va...

6/11/2008 3:59:47 PM

June 6

jeffbot is following the issue, "Should insured American healthcare consumers have the option of outsourcing surgery and major procedures ("medical tourism") to other countries to reduce or eliminate their out-of-pocket expenses?"

6/6/2008 4:21:38 PM

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6/6/2008 4:21:38 PM

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6/6/2008 4:21:38 PM

May 19

jeffbot published a blog entry.

TigerDirect apology startles grouchy geek

I'm the grouchy geek, at least for today, since my laptop hard drive died. But I'm not so geeky that I'd spend any time grousing about that, since I saw (or rather, heard) it coming. The dreaded "clic...

5/19/2008 3:32:51 PM

May 14

ElizabethRoss commented on opinion of jeffbot

The media is politically biased and generally leans to the Right.

There's left-leaning media. They're called independent media - such as The Nation. The majority of media outlets that are owned by large corporations have been reporting in ways that their owners choo...

5/14/2008 11:24:29 AM

gethro commented on opinion of jeffbot

The media is politically biased and generally leans to the Right.

sure, unbalanced, but to the right? I certainly believe that consolidation has distorted the way events are covered and embedded some kind of an underlying agenda. Not so sure I'm convinced it's one w...

5/14/2008 11:12:58 AM

jeffbot took a stand.

The media is politically biased and generally leans to the Right.

Media consolidation in the hands of large corporations has fundamentally unbalanced journalism over the last 30 years.

2 Comments•5/14/2008 10:06:34 AM

May 13

jeffbot took a stand.

The U.S. should invest more in its space program.

The space program represents the best in what America ought to be; it's a smart investment in technology, science and the future. $30 billion for a manned trip to Mars is less than the cost of a firs...

5/13/2008 3:26:22 PM

jeffbot took a stand.

Eliot Spitzer should not resign for his involvement in a prostitution ring.

Too late though, huh.

5/13/2008 3:19:56 PM

jeffbot took a stand.

President Ford should not have pardoned President Nixon.

It's a little late for both of them, huh?

5/13/2008 3:19:23 PM

jeffbot took a stand.

Prostitution should be legal.

It already is, in lots of places. What's the problem?

5/13/2008 3:18:37 PM

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