<html><head></head><body style="zoom: 0%;"><div dir="auto">Sorry about your Healthcare experiences. It sucks it's rationed. Far from perfect. We've got a ways to go for sure. Thankfully, today's medical communities aren't using shit ladder water sources. Previous generations of leaders in their field got that right.<br><br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">My view is that leaders in our industry actually lead and stop making excuses for about the world sucks and it's not doable. I know it sucks for many, been there done that. Let's focus our energies every day on making it better to the extent we can.<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">Then go to our graves in repose with Thomas Grey's epitaph<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">THE EPITAPH<br></div>
<div dir="auto">Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth<br></div>
<div dir="auto"> A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown.<br></div>
<div dir="auto">Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth,<br></div>
<div dir="auto"> And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere,<br></div>
<div dir="auto"> Heav'n did a recompense as largely send:<br></div>
<div dir="auto">He gave to Mis'ry all he had, a tear,<br></div>
<div dir="auto"> He gain'd from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend.<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">No farther seek his merits to disclose,<br></div>
<div dir="auto"> Or draw his frailties from their dread abode,<br></div>
<div dir="auto">(There they alike in trembling hope repose)<br></div>
<div dir="auto"> The bosom of his Father and his God.<br><br></div>
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My opinion is poor people shouldn't have to pay for insurance to insurance companies, companies that figure figures for a living.
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Be sure to be out there campaigning at every election. Really off-topic, but IMO the current scheme of health insurance keeps many people from going into their own business, and keeps them working for large companies. I'm sure that's deliberate. Valerie works for the University, which is the only thing that kept me under health insurance - I'm just a consultant. California would give me a plan today, but most states would not. November's heart attack cost $359K, the insurance company negotiated 60K away and paid the rest, charging me $125. Prices aren't going to fall unless we get single-payer like most civilized countries. Somebody
<i>does </i>have to pay for health care, though, and the choices are out of your pocket, or in your taxes, or through inflation.
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A digression: I could do an LMR 600 passive cable system looped with Wilkinson power dividers, patch antennas and nests to protect the egress escape ladder for about $10 to $15K. Don't need an SLA. We've basically priced protecting human lives to only rich people.
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If it's going indoors between the units, you need plenum-rated cable. LMR is really pricey in plenum-rated, RG-6 is more than adequate and more reasonably priced. RF between units is a legacy medium, though, there should be plenum-rated CAT-8. The dividers can be of the sort specified for cable TV. Wilkinson would be overkill and this is just a tiny toroid transformer in the box.
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The very best way to future proof is not with any sort of wire or fiber, but with conduit with lots of room, that can be re-pulled.
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I think it's on us to do similar for digital communication networks. They're needed far beyond entertainment, and we need to get public safety elements engaged too.
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