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I've been informally notified that I've been accepted for the MSc programme and should be getting the formal acceptance (and the first of many bills :-) shortly.

:-)

weird dreams

I've had some strange dreams lately.

One involved being somewhere (not quite sure where) having a friendly chat with redactrice's parents. That was followed by running into someoen I knew in high school and quietly talking to and making out with her (as our 1980s selves, not who we are now--I've not even seen her for donkeys').

Then the night before last I had a dream in which I was back at my parents', and I was about to put the kettle on, asked around, and my father said he didn't want any tea. At the time, in the dream, I recall saying "That's how I know this is a dream--if this were real life, you would *never* refuse a cup of tea!"

quackers

( medical stuff )

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Thanks to blueingenue for a link to an excellent article in the Atlantic about healthcare. In particular, the author highlights one of my greatest reservations about the discussion of *insurance reform* now going on:

...fundamentally, the “comprehensive” reform being contemplated merely cements in place the current system-—insurance-based, employment-centered, administratively complex. It addresses the underlying causes of our health-care crisis only obliquely, if at all; indeed, by extending the current system to more people, it will likely increase the ultimate cost of true reform.

We need health *delivery* reform as well as health *process* reform and health *insurance* reform.

Edited to fix link error.