- 07:08 PM
- 03/20/10
Just an FYI, medicaid pays pennies on the dollar, so most of the treatment given to medicaid patients goes unpaid for and is taken as a loss by the facility. If they participate in medicaid they aren't allowed to pass on the large majority of the bill that goes unreimbursed.
Anybody else find it funny that we're debating how publicly funded the US healthcare system is in a thread about a record for Winter Olympic medals?
posted by apoch at 05:19 AM on March 02
Oops, my bad. Misread it somehow. Good catch Demophon.
posted by apoch at 09:25 AM on March 01
Canada has to be waking up in a good mood. Gold medals in Men's and Women's Hockey and Curling.
posted by apoch at 07:26 AM on March 01
And I will choose to ignore its existence, just like I have with The Godfather III and Highlander II.
Silly goddam, Highlander doesn't have sequals, there can only be one!
posted by apoch at 10:12 PM on February 22
mkn, no commercials? Wow. I'm so sick of missing half of each end so they can show the same pathetic commercials over and over.
posted by apoch at 02:00 PM on February 18
I'm enjoying all the curling coverage, even if the US isn't doing so hot. Norway's Men's Curling team has awesome pants.
posted by apoch at 06:20 PM on February 17
Need another great Canadian band? The Tragically Hip.
posted by apoch at 06:58 AM on February 14
Don't forget to make your picks in the NFL Play Off Pick 'em - Pro Bowl round.
posted by apoch at 06:04 AM on January 27
The sun will rise in the East in the morning. If I'm right can I brag about it?
posted by apoch at 11:19 PM on January 24
Detroit had a 2 game lead and more powerplays during the series. They just ran out of gas.
That's the price you pay for missing the bandwagon on efficiency by focusing on gas guzzlers.
posted by apoch at 01:42 PM on January 22
tommyray, even if you were right about the economics (and thanks to Grum we know you're not), there is no reason that the minor league team has to be all-white. You're minor league baseball team has cheaper tickets, not because it excludes all non-white players, but because it's MINOR LEAGUE. It's entirely possible to set up a basketball league, offer cheaper tickets, and provide good entertainment without being a racist nincompoop.
Don "Moose Poop for Brains" Lewis is a racist nincompoop. If he had wanted to set up a basketball league in 12 cities in the south without player restrictions nobody would have said anything besides, "Good Luck."
posted by apoch at 05:08 AM on January 22
Shotput, that's incredible.
As for the concept, ugh.
posted by apoch at 07:37 PM on January 20
That's awesome.
posted by apoch at 02:57 PM on January 19
Self serving plug: Don't forget to make your picks in the NFL Play Off Pick' em.
posted by apoch at 06:14 AM on January 15
rcade, on the other hand.. Java does get around.
posted by apoch at 01:54 PM on January 07
Shameless plug: Don't forget to make your picks in Sportfilters own NFL Playoff Pick 'em.
posted by apoch at 03:59 PM on January 06
I thought David Caruso was the primary reason to stop watching anything involving David Caruso.
posted by apoch at 08:58 PM on January 05
Boise State Smoise State. 14-0? They barely beat a non-bcs team by 7 in their bowl game. They'll never be big time.
posted by apoch at 10:19 AM on January 05
I think they should change the way division champ is assigned. They should move all six division games to the last six weeks of the season. Your division record would determine who wins the division (5-1 vs 4-2 etc) with the non-divisional record as a tie breaker (and further tie breakers as necessary). I think this would greatly decrease the odds of having a throw away game at the end of the season, and definitely decrease the chances of more than one such game. The wild card spots would still be decided the same way.
posted by apoch at 09:48 AM on January 04
Party foul Atheist. You're supposed to put down the mat before you jump to conclusions
posted by apoch at 10:22 AM on December 18
stolen from a buddy of mine, so he get's all the credit.
posted by apoch at 11:22 AM on December 09
As a Lions fan I have to ask.. uh, what parity?
posted by apoch at 12:54 PM on December 07
Bismarck, near the end, one of the Detroit Radio Announcers said something like, "You won't find a more exciting game between 2 1-8 teams."
posted by apoch at 04:48 AM on November 23
Not sure if "Noles" on the waist line is such a good idea. From the wrong angle..
posted by apoch at 07:26 AM on November 06
VeloNews has an Explainer article that covers some of the legal issues in the trial.
posted by apoch at 08:56 AM on November 05
If you go back far enough, everyone immigrated here.
posted by apoch at 04:20 PM on November 03
The primary sponsor of the US Speedskating team is now The Colbert Nation. huh.
posted by apoch at 09:57 AM on November 03
There is a sidebar with articles that covered testimony during the trial.
posted by apoch at 04:42 AM on November 03
Has anyone been on more teams with more potentially first ballot hall of famers than Shaq? Kobe, Wade, Nash, and Lebron, just to name a few.
posted by apoch at 09:38 AM on October 28
Take the Lions, please. Have them play in the Collesium and change their colors to red and gold. If they ever win at home, "Lions feast on foes at the Collesium" etc. Just take them away so I can stop drinking the blue and silver kool-aid.
posted by apoch at 09:46 AM on October 25
Astana's failure to file paperwork on time may allow Alberto Contador to terminate his contract.
posted by apoch at 08:29 AM on October 23
Tour of California route announced. Should be a good one.
posted by apoch at 12:32 PM on October 22
Garmin extends their sponsorship of the American cycling team Slipstream.
posted by apoch at 12:36 PM on October 20
JJ, I'm impressed! Got your own fan club amongst NFL coaches.
posted by apoch at 08:39 AM on October 12
UCI is banning race radios at all levels of road racing. No date's been set for the phase out though. Considering how poorly the the two stage ban went over at the TdF, not sure how they can say "They also took into account the desire expressed by the majority of those involved in cycling to prohibit the equipment."
posted by apoch at 08:50 AM on September 24
Garcia Acosta has completed 25 Grand Tours, but never raced the Giro d'Italia.
posted by apoch at 06:53 AM on September 23
All charges have been dropped after the DA found out West had a run in with Greg Maddux earlier that evening. Said ADA Marx, "Well, in that case, he was actually under armed." Per the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
posted by apoch at 10:44 PM on September 20
Who isn't too good for Charlie "Disease Ridden" Sheen?
posted by apoch at 11:44 AM on September 13
Yes. (He's on vacation right now though)
posted by apoch at 06:09 AM on August 31
hincadenza, I hope that for the spectators sake they don't use maple bats.
posted by apoch at 08:14 AM on August 01
Pete Rose the person is banned from baseball. AFAIK, the Hall of Fame inducts people, not stats. Stats might be used to figure out which people to induct, but it's impossible to induct Pete Rose the person who played without also inducting Pete Rose the gambling manager.
posted by apoch at 08:43 AM on July 28
I read that one of the reasons Bruyneal is leaving is that he wanted nothing to do with Vino.
posted by apoch at 05:10 PM on July 23
Mahorn hasn't been mentioned because he's now head coach of the Detroit Shock.
posted by apoch at 06:31 AM on July 02
Except it was written by Henry Abbot and not Kobe Bryant.
Not that I can blame Kobe for wanting to be seen like this instead of his usual image. It's much more flattering.
posted by apoch at 02:06 PM on June 05
Um, his argument wasn't that we should allow PED's. His argument was that calling it a health issue would be a more effective way of curtailing PED use than the current method of calling it a moral issue.
"Even if you regard such developments as morally dubious, the way to curtail them is not by denouncing putative failures of individual rectitude baseball has tried that for years with unimpressive results but to recast the issue as one of workplace safety."
posted by apoch at 07:04 AM on May 22
Good story. Due to my irrational dislike of Rick Reilly I wish someone else had written it. And Lionel, wherever you are, I'm jealous.
posted by apoch at 01:46 PM on January 30
I was happy to see they recognized how great a kicker Jason Hanson has been. He's deserved a better team for his whole career.
posted by apoch at 09:46 AM on January 22
Except the Baltimore Ravens won a Superbowl.
posted by apoch at 11:35 AM on January 19
so terrapin, basically you were turning the other cheek?
posted by apoch at 12:57 PM on January 13
Thanks guys. It was pretty impressive even to a clueless person.
posted by apoch at 08:14 PM on January 04
So.. can someone who understand darts explain how amazing that is? It looked impressive, but how nuts was it?
posted by apoch at 09:33 AM on January 03
I know, lets require that the kicker make a self post to a blog that doesn't self posts while twittering from his blackberry (or iphone) and kicking.
posted by apoch at 07:55 AM on December 22
Wait wait.. don't tell me.. the Cardinals caught the 49ers with their pants down?
posted by apoch at 05:12 PM on November 12
All this time I thought he was trying to make a nuanced political statement. Silly me.
posted by apoch at 11:45 AM on November 08
TBH, I've been trying to figure out the best way to respond to that. Thank you for doing it better than I could.
posted by apoch at 09:16 PM on October 17
"the fact of the matter is, T.O. hasn't done or said anything that wasn't actually true"
I think Jeff Garcia would like to dispute that.... oh you meant in Dallas. Nevermind.
posted by apoch at 02:24 PM on October 16
Well, you see, he was fined $100,000 by the arbitration panel at CAS. This is supposedly for legal fees incurred by the prosecution. This was never an issue during the actual hearing. After the hearing was over, the panel heard arguments from a lawyer for the prosecution that they deserved some compensation. Landis was never given a chance to argue about it and he cannot race again in the US (even though his ban ends on 1-29-09) until he pays.
Also, the guys who sit on the various arbitration panels at CAS frequently argue as prosecution in hearings before CAS. Which is a rather serious conflict of interest.
If the system was fair instead crooked, this would have gone away already.
posted by apoch at 09:07 AM on September 30
Panthers Cut Jake Delhomme
I misread the title as "Pantheon cuts Jake.. " I was surprised that the Pope Squatter et al had that much power. I'm going to bed now.