[SK in CV]

[quote=AN]
The link I posted on the last page shows that “More than 25% of the increase in medical costs between 1987 and 2001 is attributable to obesity and obesity-related conditions such as hypertension and diabetes, according to a new report from the non-partisan Urban Institute.” Today, 30-32% of American between 20-74 are obese. Based on the graph they provided, in 1987, about 15% of American were obese. Even more staggering: “And today, close to 20% of children are obese, up from 4% four decades ago.” “Come 2015, it is estimated that 40% of American adults will be obese, which is more than double the rate 40 years ago.”

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That’s a problem. A huge problem. Obesity accounting for 25% of the increase in medical costs. What about the other 75%? Medical insurance costs during a similar period (from 1990 to 2001) went up almost 83%. And from 1990 to 2007 up a whopping 164%. We’re paying more than two and a half times what we paid in 1990. Doctors and hospitals and other medical care providers certainly don’t earn 2 1/2 times what they did in 1990. Part of that increase is obesity. And part of the reason for the obesity is lack of preventive care. More preventive care would reduce the costs of treating the acute symptoms of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease.

Who’s making 2 1/2 times what they made in 1990? The insurance companies.

[SK in CV]

[quote=AN]
The link I posted on the last page shows that “More than 25% of the increase in medical costs between 1987 and 2001 is attributable to obesity and obesity-related conditions such as hypertension and diabetes, according to a new report from the non-partisan Urban Institute.” Today, 30-32% of American between 20-74 are obese. Based on the graph they provided, in 1987, about 15% of American were obese. Even more staggering: “And today, close to 20% of children are obese, up from 4% four decades ago.” “Come 2015, it is estimated that 40% of American adults will be obese, which is more than double the rate 40 years ago.”

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That’s a problem. A huge problem. Obesity accounting for 25% of the increase in medical costs. What about the other 75%? Medical insurance costs during a similar period (from 1990 to 2001) went up almost 83%. And from 1990 to 2007 up a whopping 164%. We’re paying more than two and a half times what we paid in 1990. Doctors and hospitals and other medical care providers certainly don’t earn 2 1/2 times what they did in 1990. Part of that increase is obesity. And part of the reason for the obesity is lack of preventive care. More preventive care would reduce the costs of treating the acute symptoms of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease.

Who’s making 2 1/2 times what they made in 1990? The insurance companies.

[SK in CV]

[quote=AN]
The link I posted on the last page shows that “More than 25% of the increase in medical costs between 1987 and 2001 is attributable to obesity and obesity-related conditions such as hypertension and diabetes, according to a new report from the non-partisan Urban Institute.” Today, 30-32% of American between 20-74 are obese. Based on the graph they provided, in 1987, about 15% of American were obese. Even more staggering: “And today, close to 20% of children are obese, up from 4% four decades ago.” “Come 2015, it is estimated that 40% of American adults will be obese, which is more than double the rate 40 years ago.”

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That’s a problem. A huge problem. Obesity accounting for 25% of the increase in medical costs. What about the other 75%? Medical insurance costs during a similar period (from 1990 to 2001) went up almost 83%. And from 1990 to 2007 up a whopping 164%. We’re paying more than two and a half times what we paid in 1990. Doctors and hospitals and other medical care providers certainly don’t earn 2 1/2 times what they did in 1990. Part of that increase is obesity. And part of the reason for the obesity is lack of preventive care. More preventive care would reduce the costs of treating the acute symptoms of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease.

Who’s making 2 1/2 times what they made in 1990? The insurance companies.

[SK in CV]

[quote=AN]
The link I posted on the last page shows that “More than 25% of the increase in medical costs between 1987 and 2001 is attributable to obesity and obesity-related conditions such as hypertension and diabetes, according to a new report from the non-partisan Urban Institute.” Today, 30-32% of American between 20-74 are obese. Based on the graph they provided, in 1987, about 15% of American were obese. Even more staggering: “And today, close to 20% of children are obese, up from 4% four decades ago.” “Come 2015, it is estimated that 40% of American adults will be obese, which is more than double the rate 40 years ago.”

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That’s a problem. A huge problem. Obesity accounting for 25% of the increase in medical costs. What about the other 75%? Medical insurance costs during a similar period (from 1990 to 2001) went up almost 83%. And from 1990 to 2007 up a whopping 164%. We’re paying more than two and a half times what we paid in 1990. Doctors and hospitals and other medical care providers certainly don’t earn 2 1/2 times what they did in 1990. Part of that increase is obesity. And part of the reason for the obesity is lack of preventive care. More preventive care would reduce the costs of treating the acute symptoms of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease.

Who’s making 2 1/2 times what they made in 1990? The insurance companies.

[SK in CV]

There are some agents that are convinced that changes to their listings attract attention. They could be right. It worked here. It got your attention.

I follow CV pretty closely, and over the last year there has almost always been at least 1 active listing where the price changes every 10 days or more. One listing on Mensha Ct that sold a few months ago must have changed 15 times in 3 months on the market. It did sell at a highish price, but had some extraordinary improvements. No idea if that’s common elsewhere. Nor have I noticed that it dramatically affects sales price or DOM. Seems that when they sell, they sell where the market is, regardless of where the listing is.

The most notable thing about this particular listing is not the changes, but where the price is now. 28% below the purchase price 5 years ago. It was purchased pretty high, but that wasn’t the peak, time wise. Price wise, it may have been. At $262/ft, it’s at the very low end of current listings. I suspect it’s a short sale. NOD was filed about 6 weeks ago.

[SK in CV]

There are some agents that are convinced that changes to their listings attract attention. They could be right. It worked here. It got your attention.

I follow CV pretty closely, and over the last year there has almost always been at least 1 active listing where the price changes every 10 days or more. One listing on Mensha Ct that sold a few months ago must have changed 15 times in 3 months on the market. It did sell at a highish price, but had some extraordinary improvements. No idea if that’s common elsewhere. Nor have I noticed that it dramatically affects sales price or DOM. Seems that when they sell, they sell where the market is, regardless of where the listing is.

The most notable thing about this particular listing is not the changes, but where the price is now. 28% below the purchase price 5 years ago. It was purchased pretty high, but that wasn’t the peak, time wise. Price wise, it may have been. At $262/ft, it’s at the very low end of current listings. I suspect it’s a short sale. NOD was filed about 6 weeks ago.

[SK in CV]

There are some agents that are convinced that changes to their listings attract attention. They could be right. It worked here. It got your attention.

I follow CV pretty closely, and over the last year there has almost always been at least 1 active listing where the price changes every 10 days or more. One listing on Mensha Ct that sold a few months ago must have changed 15 times in 3 months on the market. It did sell at a highish price, but had some extraordinary improvements. No idea if that’s common elsewhere. Nor have I noticed that it dramatically affects sales price or DOM. Seems that when they sell, they sell where the market is, regardless of where the listing is.

The most notable thing about this particular listing is not the changes, but where the price is now. 28% below the purchase price 5 years ago. It was purchased pretty high, but that wasn’t the peak, time wise. Price wise, it may have been. At $262/ft, it’s at the very low end of current listings. I suspect it’s a short sale. NOD was filed about 6 weeks ago.

[SK in CV]

There are some agents that are convinced that changes to their listings attract attention. They could be right. It worked here. It got your attention.

I follow CV pretty closely, and over the last year there has almost always been at least 1 active listing where the price changes every 10 days or more. One listing on Mensha Ct that sold a few months ago must have changed 15 times in 3 months on the market. It did sell at a highish price, but had some extraordinary improvements. No idea if that’s common elsewhere. Nor have I noticed that it dramatically affects sales price or DOM. Seems that when they sell, they sell where the market is, regardless of where the listing is.

The most notable thing about this particular listing is not the changes, but where the price is now. 28% below the purchase price 5 years ago. It was purchased pretty high, but that wasn’t the peak, time wise. Price wise, it may have been. At $262/ft, it’s at the very low end of current listings. I suspect it’s a short sale. NOD was filed about 6 weeks ago.

[SK in CV]

There are some agents that are convinced that changes to their listings attract attention. They could be right. It worked here. It got your attention.

I follow CV pretty closely, and over the last year there has almost always been at least 1 active listing where the price changes every 10 days or more. One listing on Mensha Ct that sold a few months ago must have changed 15 times in 3 months on the market. It did sell at a highish price, but had some extraordinary improvements. No idea if that’s common elsewhere. Nor have I noticed that it dramatically affects sales price or DOM. Seems that when they sell, they sell where the market is, regardless of where the listing is.

The most notable thing about this particular listing is not the changes, but where the price is now. 28% below the purchase price 5 years ago. It was purchased pretty high, but that wasn’t the peak, time wise. Price wise, it may have been. At $262/ft, it’s at the very low end of current listings. I suspect it’s a short sale. NOD was filed about 6 weeks ago.

[SK in CV]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
You’re right about it not being Boston PD, but, rather, Cambridge PD (tony suburb in MA). However, you failed to note that Sgt. Crowley (the arresting officer) was flanked by a Hispanic officer and a black officer during the altercation and they both support his contention that Gates was verbally abusive to Crowley throughout.

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A transgression which, by the way, Sgt. Crowley was attempting to figure out. Like it or not, Cambridge is largely white and affluent and Crowley had two black men in a darkened house. He had no way of knowing their intentions and was following procedure, which calls for a police officer to bring the subjects or suspects into the open or outside where he can determine if they’re armed and pose a threat to him.

As far as Gates being arrested because he was black and displayed “contempt of cop”, that’s utter bullshit. That particular offense, as far as cops are concerned, knows no color. You act like a dipshit and attempt to humiliate a cop in front of his peers and bystanders, well, you’re gonna get hooked up, and not in a good way.

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Being verbally abusive to a cop is a good reason to be arrested? Seriously? Two black men in a house in a white neighborhood is worthy of investigation? You really think that “cop humiliation” is a crime? Should be a crime? Felony assholishness?

(And no I don’t hate cops. My brother is a cop, as is his wife. This particular cop needed a cooler head.)

[SK in CV]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
You’re right about it not being Boston PD, but, rather, Cambridge PD (tony suburb in MA). However, you failed to note that Sgt. Crowley (the arresting officer) was flanked by a Hispanic officer and a black officer during the altercation and they both support his contention that Gates was verbally abusive to Crowley throughout.

snip

A transgression which, by the way, Sgt. Crowley was attempting to figure out. Like it or not, Cambridge is largely white and affluent and Crowley had two black men in a darkened house. He had no way of knowing their intentions and was following procedure, which calls for a police officer to bring the subjects or suspects into the open or outside where he can determine if they’re armed and pose a threat to him.

As far as Gates being arrested because he was black and displayed “contempt of cop”, that’s utter bullshit. That particular offense, as far as cops are concerned, knows no color. You act like a dipshit and attempt to humiliate a cop in front of his peers and bystanders, well, you’re gonna get hooked up, and not in a good way.

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Being verbally abusive to a cop is a good reason to be arrested? Seriously? Two black men in a house in a white neighborhood is worthy of investigation? You really think that “cop humiliation” is a crime? Should be a crime? Felony assholishness?

(And no I don’t hate cops. My brother is a cop, as is his wife. This particular cop needed a cooler head.)

[SK in CV]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
You’re right about it not being Boston PD, but, rather, Cambridge PD (tony suburb in MA). However, you failed to note that Sgt. Crowley (the arresting officer) was flanked by a Hispanic officer and a black officer during the altercation and they both support his contention that Gates was verbally abusive to Crowley throughout.

snip

A transgression which, by the way, Sgt. Crowley was attempting to figure out. Like it or not, Cambridge is largely white and affluent and Crowley had two black men in a darkened house. He had no way of knowing their intentions and was following procedure, which calls for a police officer to bring the subjects or suspects into the open or outside where he can determine if they’re armed and pose a threat to him.

As far as Gates being arrested because he was black and displayed “contempt of cop”, that’s utter bullshit. That particular offense, as far as cops are concerned, knows no color. You act like a dipshit and attempt to humiliate a cop in front of his peers and bystanders, well, you’re gonna get hooked up, and not in a good way.

[/quote]

Being verbally abusive to a cop is a good reason to be arrested? Seriously? Two black men in a house in a white neighborhood is worthy of investigation? You really think that “cop humiliation” is a crime? Should be a crime? Felony assholishness?

(And no I don’t hate cops. My brother is a cop, as is his wife. This particular cop needed a cooler head.)

[SK in CV]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
You’re right about it not being Boston PD, but, rather, Cambridge PD (tony suburb in MA). However, you failed to note that Sgt. Crowley (the arresting officer) was flanked by a Hispanic officer and a black officer during the altercation and they both support his contention that Gates was verbally abusive to Crowley throughout.

snip

A transgression which, by the way, Sgt. Crowley was attempting to figure out. Like it or not, Cambridge is largely white and affluent and Crowley had two black men in a darkened house. He had no way of knowing their intentions and was following procedure, which calls for a police officer to bring the subjects or suspects into the open or outside where he can determine if they’re armed and pose a threat to him.

As far as Gates being arrested because he was black and displayed “contempt of cop”, that’s utter bullshit. That particular offense, as far as cops are concerned, knows no color. You act like a dipshit and attempt to humiliate a cop in front of his peers and bystanders, well, you’re gonna get hooked up, and not in a good way.

[/quote]

Being verbally abusive to a cop is a good reason to be arrested? Seriously? Two black men in a house in a white neighborhood is worthy of investigation? You really think that “cop humiliation” is a crime? Should be a crime? Felony assholishness?

(And no I don’t hate cops. My brother is a cop, as is his wife. This particular cop needed a cooler head.)

[SK in CV]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
You’re right about it not being Boston PD, but, rather, Cambridge PD (tony suburb in MA). However, you failed to note that Sgt. Crowley (the arresting officer) was flanked by a Hispanic officer and a black officer during the altercation and they both support his contention that Gates was verbally abusive to Crowley throughout.

snip

A transgression which, by the way, Sgt. Crowley was attempting to figure out. Like it or not, Cambridge is largely white and affluent and Crowley had two black men in a darkened house. He had no way of knowing their intentions and was following procedure, which calls for a police officer to bring the subjects or suspects into the open or outside where he can determine if they’re armed and pose a threat to him.

As far as Gates being arrested because he was black and displayed “contempt of cop”, that’s utter bullshit. That particular offense, as far as cops are concerned, knows no color. You act like a dipshit and attempt to humiliate a cop in front of his peers and bystanders, well, you’re gonna get hooked up, and not in a good way.

[/quote]

Being verbally abusive to a cop is a good reason to be arrested? Seriously? Two black men in a house in a white neighborhood is worthy of investigation? You really think that “cop humiliation” is a crime? Should be a crime? Felony assholishness?

(And no I don’t hate cops. My brother is a cop, as is his wife. This particular cop needed a cooler head.)

[SK in CV]

[quote=flu][quote=sobmaz]
Afterall, rather spending time as a President of the United States, he’d rather be an arbitrator between an African American professor and a cop who arrested him on suspicion of burglary.

Of course, our esteemed “unbiased” president decides to take a local matter into in own hands, all while calling the Boston PD stupid, inciting the general public about “racism”. Maybe his goal is to beat every caucasian into a domicle submissiveness to never question his authority..
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Maybe you’re being a bit too defensive. And exagerating the facts to support that defensiveness.

Nobody was arrested on suspicion of burglary. It was for disturbing the peace, before the charges were dropped. They were dropped because, as a practical matter, it is not illegal to disturb the peace inside your own home. He was arrested for being an uppity black man to a cop. Obama hasn’t taken a local matter into his own hands, there is no remaining local matter, the case was dropped. He didn’t call the Boston PD stupid. (The Boston PD wasn’t even involved.)

If Obama’s very sparse words on the subject, leaves you feeling that you are being beaten to submission, can you imagine how virtually every black man, every man and woman of color feel every day in this country? The poor white man. Always the victim. Of course you want to drop the conversation about race. It’s not comfortable.

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