Between “Pond Life” and “Asylum of the Daleks” lies the following short. It’s intended for pay customers, so watch it now before BBC yanks it down.
Milk and Eggs
So, I want to talk about the season premiere of Doctor Who. Serious mega-spoilers await in the comments section. Stay away or run the risk of crossing your own timeline.
Legs Broken, Crutches Distributed
One of the benefits of Obamacare, apparently – as you’ll learn from this piece, if you can make it past “people like you and I” – is that it enables this:
Tufts Medical Center in Massachusetts – along with their physician group and a company which owns and operates two hospitals in the region – has acted on this provision of the law and received $88.5 million in federal funds to create the state’s first member owned and controlled health insurance plan.
This “first” claim is quite false, of course. Massachusetts, like most states in the u.s., once had many member-owned, member-controlled health-insurance plans – until the government drove them out of business. Now the government is apparently attempting to run a top-down simulation of what it formerly destroyed. One thinks of Marie Antoinette playing shepherdess.
Mystery Solved
Look how skinny Ryan’s copy of Atlas is! Now that explains a lot.
X Marks the Spot
I hope I do not evince an alarming degeneracy of character in saying that I would be sorry to meet Paul Marks without having a large cream pie handy.
Martian Street View
See a 360° panorama of the Martian landscape here (plus more).