THE WOZZA BLOG |
i am in negotiations to bring one of my real life pals in to our little community.
i will shamelessly promote her arrival if she chooses to join us  
Despite the fact that i am so rarely here i still love each and every one of you and value this community tremendously.
i’m still alive, but mostly inhabiting facebook – as most of you know.
still very much in love with a wonderful texan lady.
looking for a job.
trying to kick the cold i’ve had for a couple of weeks.
that pretty much puts you all up to date with the wonderful world of wozza.
oh – and pictures, most of them are going up on my facebook these days. but my flickr is still runnig -
http:\\flickr.wozza.info
anonymously………… or not………. ask me anything at the link below…….
(i’m sure i’ve done something like this in the past, but here goes again………….)
http://www.formspring.me/wozzamatter
ahoy hoy.
IS it really so long since my last entry here???????
Wow.
oh-boy.
(slaps wrist) – (ouch)
Anyhews – tommorow mornig i am flying out of the uk to Denver to see a few dear friends out there – among them EpsteinBarbie – WHOOP WHOOP!!!!
Will be in COlorado for 2 and a half weeks, then headed to Tx to see my wonderful GF whom i heart very dearly……
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well, last week was a Week Of Living Splendidly….. pictures -:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=319655&id=862900074
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=320198&id=862900074
spent the week gadding about town with a lady - we saw a couple of shows (39 Steps and Wicked), had a trip on the Thames river, ate picnics in parks, saw Geroge Elliots grave, walked london at night, drank coffee all night, visited the NationalGallery, saw a massive chess game in Trafalgar Square….. and a whole heap more.
I now have a plan to go to the USA next year – first few months of it ideally……do you want to host the one and only Wozza – get your bids in now 
that was the week that was…….
or the week several weeks ago that.
I did pick up my glasses…. and they are cool, except my left eye seems a little off. Harumph.
The bowls Tourny went fantastically.
prom was ok. venue lost its late liscense a couple of days prior and hadn’t bothered to tell us – so we got shutdown early, but young ladies galore. i was popular. what can i say?
Pics were alright, but there was only half an evening.
The photoshoot i did a couple of weeks ago was pretty good – gallery is here…..
website – www.joiscurious.com i’m very proud of the pictures.
finished the first season of 30Rock and started the first season of Battlestar Galactica….. but need to watch the miniseries first.
bounds greens website is now pretty much uptodate. good stuff.
busy weekend over the club with finals. i’m reffing one and doing the bar.
From 20th – very happy, someone special is coming over, yay
i need to do something with this place.
some colour, some pictures – maybe drapes and some scatter cushions.
and DEFINATELY a picture in the header
what will have to suffice are these pictures from last month of people dancing on a bridge and a dj friend wot i took:
not much happened today aside from watching most of the first season of “30 rock”
sunday shall be a lazy day.
monday picking up new glasses from the optometrist
tuesday a photo shoot i’m woefully underprepared for. beed to get my 50′s vibe on.
wednesday – big day at the bowls club, lots of vistors and a huge game to get organised.
all this time trying to salvage something of he website from my sports club. dragging it upto date is taking a hella long time.
i have a lot of friends in America and have always been fascinated by American politics and media – and this healthcare debate has peaked my interest.
Boiled down it’s a debate on whether the country should system 1 to run alongside system 2.
system 1 – covers 100% of people 95% of the time for £100,000,000 (with, in similar internnational schemes a, nominal flat rate copay)
System 2 – covers 75% of people 60% of the time for £150,00,000 with a potentially limitless co-pay.
just on the numbers – which system seems better?
System 2 attracts the great and the good from around the world in their thousands – but leaves millions of the countries own citizens plunged into lifelong debt in the case of catastrophic illness, denied treatments entirely, retroactively removed from insurance rolls, have so little treatment paid for as to be no treatment, and have millions without access to anything except emergency room care.
Is it worth those consequences in order to maintain a few thousand rich health tourists accounts?
System 1 will guarantee treatment to all who request assitence – speed of treatment may not be that of System 2…. but some level of treatment will be guaranteed. System 2 provides no guarantee of treatment – or if it does can and often does lead to bankruptcy.
The debate has become highly emotional – on both sides – some people with nothing to lose and who are already covered by System 2 (such as it is) are vocally opposed to the creation of a system where their freinds, neighbours and relatives will have the chance to enter a structured healthcare system. The opposition – from this correspondents view – is based on selfish fear of loss of their own system – one, which has been established, can remove care at any time for any reason.
In all other areas of American life individual citizens have a choice – they can pay for a private school for their kids, hire private security for their house, drive a car to work as opposed to using public education, the local police department or mass transit.
All of those private options have one defining characteristic – the money required to maintain them to the individual is greater than just taking the public options. Some people – in fact – a lot – of people do not have the luxury of being able to afford “all in” privately catered services. Some people can afford occasional private tutoring for their children, some people can chip into local neighbour security funds and some people can afford the occasional taxi.
I can show that public and private economies can exist in the same sector – why not Healthcare?. Why, when private schools are over subscribed – is it assumed that a public alternative in Health would lead to the collapse of Private Healthcare?.
Why deny the poor in Healthcare what they have in policing, fire services, education and transit? – to name just a few things. The debate on Healthcare in the media has been, left to vested interests of lobby groups and industry professionals on both sides, without those voices of the Uninsured and Underinsured regular people to put their own stories forwards. Stories of bankruptcies, withdrawn coverage and no coverage.
or, to cut a long story short………
Why don’t the poor deserve healthcare?
wozza