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What about those that are self employed and therefore self insured? To the best of my knowledge, in an individual plan, for the first year of coverage, insurers do not have to cover the costs associated with pre-existing conditions. After the first year, they are required to roll the pre-existing c...

No, not denial of treatment, but denial of coverage. If domestic abuse is handled as a preexisting condition, then they can deny coverage if they think that you widthheld that information. Since they can generally deny you coverage if you widthheld information about a preexisting condition, right? ...

BTW, did I mention that in 9 US states domestic violence is regarded as a preexisting condition and can be used by insurance companies to deny treatment to women? Personally I find this disgusting and this has lots of implications on the criminal aspect of the problem (it is already an underreporte...

I'm fine with a private system. It needs two important features, however: 1) If you sell insurance, you sell it to everyone irrespective of their condition, everyone pays the same price, and the insurer cannot unilateral cancel because of a health related event. 2) Pricing for life-critical goods a...

Confounding information on U.S. cancer rates that might be of interest: Hispanic Immigrants to US suffer 40% higher cancer rates . I don't think the my daddy is better than your daddy argument is going to go anywhere, particularly when no one can agree on a standard of measurement. What really shoul...

The lack of detail is part of the point. We spent $18 million as taxpayers for Recovery.gov, and quite a few billion for the stimulus package; I think we deserve a better explanation for each and every line item. Also, this is stimulus spending, not regular spending for "necessary" food programs. Wh...

Ham: $2,531,600. More Ham : $1,191,200. Mozarella Cheese : $1,562,568.00. Process Cheese : $5,708,260.00. Fixing the Dumbwaiter to serve it: $351,807. Watching your tax money be pissed away as your government crumbles into corruption: PRICELESS!!! How much did EMC2 get for polywell? Maybe they shou...

Well, you're right, it does say 100 mW, but wasn't WB-6 a 100 mW machine? Does 100 milliwatts even make sense at the stage of development they are referring to with increased coil power and presumably a larger radius to evaluate scaling. Maybe what they mean to say is, "Show Break-Even Power?" But ...

Robthebob wrote:That one isnt specifically about polywell...

Read the article. Hint: top of page 4.

3.2.1 Enhanced Ion Drive with PB11 (proton/boron 11): Based on the results of WB8 testing, and the availability of government funds the contractor shall develop a WB machine (WB8.1) which incorporates the knowledge and improvements gained in WB8. It is expected that higher ion drive capabilities wi...

You sure you have the right #? My search-fu is poor for the actual #. All I'm finding are some state resolutions/bills. EDIT: Okay, I found the bill; I don't know where Opencongress.com got the number, though - it doesn't correspond with anything else. Text of HR 2768 as intended in OP: 111th CONGRE...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization A competing waste to energy project that recieved some press a few years ago. Apparently they could not quite make a profit, and suffered from some odiferous complications. Dan Tibbets Thermal depolymerization would probably be economic if coupl...

This seems like the perfect waste management technology if coupled with cheap energy - like Polywell. Has it proven economical anywhere? Wiki says there are a couple of existing plants in Asia and Europe, none in the U.S. We have a standard incinerator here in Huntsville, AL - all it does is cost tw...

Well, it doesn't matter anyway. Incandescents are being banned. Not only will they have to industrialize their laser, they'll have to pay off politicians to reverse the ban.

It's a lot easier to store Methane for future usage than electricity. Methane is also a good source for transportation fuel (over 400k cars in Europe run on Methane). It could also replace mined sources for natural gas lines. cost efficient? That's always the question. Lacking any information, only...