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[mtupyro.livejournal.com]

I saw the light turn red today. the light should never turn red.

The phone system needs approximately 100 calls or more in queue to make the light turn red. When I had a moment to check it was 134 in queue. When the manufacturer puts out a bad firmware upgrade and it makes people not have dial tone on their phone, this is a bad thing.

It's also why I got off work at 11pm CST and am now thoroughly drunk with a day off tomorrow (err, today).

EDIT: And yes, I do tech support. New job from the last time I posted however. I now work in a call center for a very evil corporation doing phone and internet support.

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[mattcaron.livejournal.com]

generally sucky compared to US health care.

That's funny, because our politicians keep trying to sell socialized health care by talking about how much better your system is than ours.

[thecrazyfinn.livejournal.com]

The Canadian system does do some things a lot better than the US system (Handling of major one-time incidents) and we don't have the awful price distortions the HMO's Walmart-style payment policies impose, but general low-level care and chronic care are worse than the US and we don't have access to a lot of the diagnostic equipment that's ubiquitous in the US as it's beyond the budget of most local hospitals. However since the costs are not up front for the most part and you have to have actual serious health issues to trip over the real issues with our system it seems better than the US system to most users who don't compare tax rates.

The biggest advantage to the Canadian system is no pissing matches with an HMO's that don't want to pay. Downside is that if you want proper coverage you still need 3rd party health insurance in addition to the government system (Yep, I pay for additional health insurance as well as being taxed and paying a health care levy for the socialized system).

Note also that the system the Pols in the US keep trying to sell you based on the Canadian systems is actually a UK-style NHS system. The Canadian systems closely resemble Tennessee's TennCare system without the safety valve of private care, they're individual to the Province and run locally rather than a national system like the pols in the US keep peddling. NHS is far less functional than either the US or Canadian-style systems.

[mattcaron.livejournal.com]

Ah, lovely.

Thanks for the good info, though it doesn't really do anything except to convince me that the US government wants to centralize even more power under the federal government, in direct violation of the constitution.