Let Las Vegas Manage Healthcare

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Yesterday I read a book about statistics that matter. Google and WAL-MART know everything about you worth knowing, so does Las Vegas.

Harvesting personal information is so efficient, the boys in LV pretty much know what you drink and smoke, from the time you walk in the casino and find an empty chair. Virtually everything you do is captured by somebody and sold to data collection companies who use the information to create a file for you and sell the info to Las Vegas or your boss.

The math wizards then use the information to create proxies for what they dont know. IF YOU WALK LIKE A DUCK AND QUACK!

Your boss doesnt need to look for you on MySpace, he buys your file. So do the cops. The files make harvesting perverts a snap cuz they know who the players are and what team you play for.

So I wuz thinking, MAYBE WE OUGHTA LET LAS VEGAS RUN OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM.

NO! I dont mean for your medical treatment to become a victim of fortune and tied to a roulette wheel or deck of cards. No! The boys can watch you like they watch gamblers. And they can watch the docs, too.

If your doc does something unusual or suspicious the guys send Joe Pesci for a friendly chat. Or maybe Joe will visit you. "Hey! Jim! We noticed you went to the ER with a carrot up your ass. Your file sez nuthin about you bein a farmer. Is the carrot some kind of new enema? Whazzup with the carrot?"

 

[JamesSD]

Las Vegas is arguably the worst place on earth, or perhaps just the United States (sufficient food and reasonably clean drinking water are still luxuries in some parts of the world).

I've been told that the "real" Las Vegas (aka far from the strip) is much nicer, although it still has to deal with the fact they built it in the desert, so it's blazing hot in the summer and has serious water issues.

Everything on the vegas strip smells like cigarettes. People really "let it all hang out" when it comes to their appearance and behavior. Tourists are often just terrible, terrible people. 95% of the Vegas strip exists only to extract the maximum amount of money from its victims in the minimum amount of time. The clubs are sleazy, overpriced, and full of drunkards under the dillusion they'll remain young and attractive forever.

All that said, if you can get a room for a decent rate at one of the nice hotel/casinos, many of the pools are quite nice. There are some gems of restraunts for reasonable rates if you know where to look.

 

[alterateErotica]

You know I just read a really interesting stat...
The survival rate of a heart attack in Las Vegas (because of all the camera's) is 53%
Contrasted to Chicago, which is an almost unbelievable 2%

Source: June 2009 issue of Playboy. Yep, I read the articles. However, I also looked at the pictures, they were not that interesting.