coolnewtoy

apparently several newspapers run off a Django install, including the newspaper that employed the web developers who wrote it:

http://notesofgenius.com/django-web-framework

They're also unspeakably violent

They speak Japanese, they do whatever they please

And sometimes they vacation in Ireland"

-Bare Naked Ladies

http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-ninjas-lyrics-barenaked-ladie...

but since you have a profit-based model, excluding planned (or unplanned for that matter) pregnancies from coverage is the same problem as excluding pre-existing conditions. insurance companies cherry-pick the risk pool to increase profits - they only want to give insurance to people unlikely to need it.

for private insurance to provide any social value, you need a large risk pool that includes healthy and high-risk patients, and the insurance companies must be required to actually cover people who need medical care.

the healthy can't be allowed to opt out, and the insurance companies can't be allowed to decline coverage to anyone in the group.

"The research of Till Von Wachter, the economist at Columbia University, suggests that not all people graduating into a recession see their life chances dimmed: those with degrees from elite universities catch up fairly quickly to where they otherwise would have been if they’d graduated in better times; it’s the masses beneath them that are left behind. Princeton’s 2009 graduating class found more jobs in financial services than in any other industry. According to Princeton’s career-services director, Beverly Hamilton-Chandler, campus visits and hiring by the big investment banks have been down, but that decline has been partly offset by an uptick in recruiting by hedge funds and boutique financial firms."

I actually doubt the illnesses of other people's children will register as loudly as the autistic symptoms of antivax advocates' own children.

Teaching under Teach for America is a 2-year volunteer gig with unsustainably long hours.

If the unions were to disappear tomorrow I just don't think you'd be able to generate enough enthusiastic effective young people at that burn rate to fill out the entire system.

In many suburban schools, it's actually pretty easy for a group of involved parents to pressure the district to not renew the next year's contract of a new teacher they don't like, as long as it's done before the teacher is tenured (~three years in my state). Maybe this is one reason schools without a critical mass of involved parents suffer under the current system.