Music and healthcare 

How are these two topics related, you ask? Well, one makes you happy, and the other makes your head hurt, tells you to go to the doctor, where you pay, get a prescription, pay again, then receive a bill from your doctor saying your insurance company won’t pay, then you call your insurance company and they tell you, yes, your doctor was correct, they won’t pay, and now you have a headache again.

Okay, so they’re not related at all, except that this week I have been handling the health insurance renewal for our company and I discovered a new band I really like.

The band is Blitzen Trapper. They’re kind of like if you combined Van Morrison with early Beck and then threw in some classic brit rock and country…I feel like this would be a good place for a link to a free download or something, but my internet pirating skills fail me once again. Instead, I will go home and pick out a good song and iTunes-gift it to you.

Now, since it is timely in both a this-is-what-I’m-doing-at-work-today way, and in a current events way, here are some observations on health care:

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