http://chieforganizer.org/2009/06/09/mcallen-shanghai-and-twitter/ Founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, Author of Citizen Wealth, Global Grassroots and The Battle for the 9th Ward. Fri, 11 May 2012 20:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://chieforganizer.org/2009/06/09/mcallen-shanghai-and-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-1405 Barbara38 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:31:20 +0000 http://chieforganizer.org/?p=1567#comment-1405 From the programming and service side, youth development frameworks are also moving away from deficit models, valuing instead young people for their potential, and designing interventions to build a set of core competencies needed to participate successfully as adolescents and adults. , From the programming and service side, youth development frameworks are also moving away from deficit models, valuing instead young people for their potential, and designing interventions to build a set of core competencies needed to participate successfully as adolescents and adults. ,

]]> http://chieforganizer.org/2009/06/09/mcallen-shanghai-and-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-366 diana Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:41:47 +0000 http://chieforganizer.org/?p=1567#comment-366 The costs are high because no one who is suppose to be monitoring healthcare is doing the job. No one is policing the quality of care. So it unnecessary procedures. Just look at the houses and the cars the doctors drive. It's expensive. Plus it pays not to manage your patients. The sicker they are the more money you make. Got to pay for your million dollar home that is 10,000 square feet and only 2 people live in it. I live in McAllen. I've had patients tell me that the Dr told them to shut up when they asked a question and I had a patient who was in acute congestive heart failure and the cardiologist signed his clearance for surgery. The costs are high because no one who is suppose to be monitoring healthcare is doing the job. No one is policing the quality of care. So it unnecessary procedures. Just look at the houses and the cars the doctors drive. It’s expensive. Plus it pays not to manage your patients. The sicker they are the more money you make. Got to pay for your million dollar home that is 10,000 square feet and only 2 people live in it. I live in McAllen. I’ve had patients tell me that the Dr told them to shut up when they asked a question and I had a patient who was in acute congestive heart failure and the cardiologist signed his clearance for surgery.

]]> http://chieforganizer.org/2009/06/09/mcallen-shanghai-and-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Kerry O'Brien Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:18:36 +0000 http://chieforganizer.org/?p=1567#comment-139 If I recall, the doctor who wrote the New Yorker article really didn't find an answer to why health care costs were so high in McAllen, did he? If I recall, the doctor who wrote the New Yorker article really didn’t find an answer to why health care costs were so high in McAllen, did he?

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