http://denver.yourhub.comThe latest story posts in The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.comen-usnews@yourhub.com(c) 2009, YourHub.com5Fragment #2-Healthcare system needs lean beef. An excerpt from the forthcoming book Healthcare 2050: The 13th Strategy by Francis M. Miller. Published a fragment at a time on YourHub.com/Parker * * * * * Colorado's Blue Ribbon Health Care Commission has done us all a favor by engagi...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~369679.aspx9/28/2007 5:55:45 PMFran Miller The Ipod Nano "1234" Girl Every once in awhile I am magnetically attracted to a song playing in the background while I grind out YourHub pieces. The recent Apple I-Pod Nano commercial that has a song beginning with the lyrics "1234" and it really grabbed me. Who is that woman? Well, it tu...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Archive/Entertainment/Music/Story~370026.aspx9/30/2007 12:21:14 PMFran Miller Fragment #3-How we are taxed to pay for other's health care. An excerpt from the forthcoming book Healthcare 2050: The 13th Strategy by Francis M. Miller. Published a fragment at a time on YourHub.com/Parker There they stood, defiant and unapologetic, the Partnership for a Healthy Col...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~370083.aspx9/30/2007 4:44:27 PMFran Miller Forgive me for being jaded, but I have come to the conclusion that all of the political rhetoric about reducing our dependence on fossil fuels is disingenuous. Take for example, a recent study released by none other than the Road & Transportation Builders Association who joined the chorus...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~370849.aspx10/2/2007 10:00:13 AMFran Miller Fragment #4-The hidden costs of 7 common chronic diseases An excerpt from the forthcoming book Healthcare 2050: The 13th Strategy by Francis M. Miller. Published a fragment at a time on YourHub.com/Parker * * * * * In a previous column I went out on a limb and suggested that before w...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~371528.aspx10/3/2007 10:08:39 AMFran Miller Fragment #5 from the forthcoming book: Healthcare 2050-The 13th Strategy by Francis M. Miller, to be published in 2008. According to some people, there is this group of people out there called the " un-insured " who are the root cause of rising health care costs. It is believed that t...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~372055.aspx10/3/2007 8:48:49 PMFran Miller Note: This article can be freely quoted to satisfy homework requirements for K-12 and college courses . For the first time, this column is targeted to young people of high school and college age. It is about a secret that adults refuse to tell their kids and most do not find out until late...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~372318.aspx10/4/2007 11:39:26 AMFran Miller Midnight the Kat is coming back and he's still black. As previous readers know, Midnight had the opportunity to become the spokesman for Oasis mouthwash, which turned out to have been some kind of paint solvent tasting product made for the Chinese. Anyway, he has breached his contract and...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Pets-and-Animals/Story~372755.aspx10/4/2007 8:03:44 PMFran Miller Recently, the 208 Health Commission held a public hearing in Boulder. One by one people got up to testify on behalf of a Single-payor system. The only exception was one gray-beard in his 80's who said the un-sayable, questioning whether the whole affair was essentially window-dressing. On the fac...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~373103.aspx10/5/2007 1:21:58 PMFran Miller Getting Things Done by David Allen The opening picture was blatant entrapment, meant to lure those with a prurient bent to read this article. Hope it "meats" all your expectations. * * * * * I have spent my thirty-plus business career reading books on time management and searching for t...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Archive/Reviews/Books/Story~373304.aspx10/5/2007 7:13:41 PMFran Miller A recent Denver Post piece about a study of Health Savings Accounts by the Bell Center, a non-profit think tank, was more revealing about their liberal leanings than revealing about HSA's. Health savings accounts were part of a multi-pronged strategy to reintroduce consumer choice and market ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~373485.aspx10/6/2007 3:23:28 PMFran Miller You are reading Fragment #8, excerpted from the forthcoming book; Healthcare 2050 by Francis M. Miller, to be published by White Dwarf Communications in 2008. The work in progress is available as a print on demand book at: www.withregardsto.com * * * * * In 1963, a former Bible salesman,...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~373584.aspx10/7/2007 10:32:47 AMFran Miller I am writing about David Kilcullen, an Australian Lt. Colonel who is one of the primary consultants to General David Petraeus with regards to counter-insurgency and the Iraq War. You will find what follows very interesting. First, a little prelude. Over the years I have become unabashedly addic...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~373680.aspx10/7/2007 6:06:46 PMFran Miller Note to the reader: Parker used to have a railroad that came through town. It had a depot and there was an attempt to resurrect it back in the 1980s when there was talk or extending RTD trolley car service to Parker. Franktown had always been a stage-stop from its founding in 1859. In the lat...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/News/Story~373921.aspx10/8/2007 9:56:01 AMFran Miller You wake up in the morning, sleep-deprived with low energy levels. A cup of coffee, the morning commute and a donut and you're now returning text messages. Mid-morning you take a break and decide to work on your personal finances. As you are looking at your needs and desires something begins to d...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Opinion/Im-Mad-About/Story~373939.aspx10/8/2007 10:15:52 AMFran Miller You are reading "fragment #1" of a book, Health Care: 2050: The 13th Strategy , that I am writing about the U.S. health care system. It is the culmination of thirty years of involvement in health care at many levels as a management consultant and policy analyst. So, why me? What could anyo...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~376208.aspx10/11/2007 3:49:27 PMFran Miller The other day I wanted to enjoy the fall colors and headed up to Castlewood Canyon to my favorite "observation-point" in life. Perched on a rock ledge I could look up towards the Palmer Divide and down towards Parker. I soon drifted off and had dreams about it all. The first thing I notic...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~376585.aspx10/12/2007 11:41:35 AMFran Miller Meant to be non-partisan " tongue-in-cheek" satire, folks!!! Just think, eight years ago Al & Tipper Gore had loaded the container with all their belongings and were on the verge of having the truck drop it off at 1600 Pennsylvannia. A sudden turn of events and they find themselve...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~376969.aspx10/12/2007 7:43:51 PMFran Miller Professions achieve legitimacy over very long periods of times. Physicians have striven for centuries to rise above the shaman and the barber-surgeon. As recent as 1890 health care had little more to offer than snake oil. It took modern X-ray, drugs and surgery to elevate healthcare to the top ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~377616.aspx10/15/2007 9:00:10 AMFran Miller From my Aunt Pat in Calgary, Alberta, Canada Dear Nephew Fran: I saw on the news up here in Canada where Hillary Clinton introduced her new health care plan. Hey. Something similar to what we have in Canada. I also heard that Michael Moore was raving about the health care up here...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~377994.aspx10/15/2007 3:25:45 PMFran Miller An old Italian Mafia Don is dying and he calls his grandson to his bed. "Lissin-a me. I wanna for you to taka my chrome-plated 38 revolver so you always remember me." "But, Grandpa, I really don't lika guns. Howz about you leava me your Rolex watch instead?" "Shuddup an'a lissin. Somma da...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Archive/Creative-Writing/Jokes/Story~378295.aspx10/16/2007 8:29:35 AMFran Miller You are reading an excerpt from the forthcoming book: Healthcare 2050: The 13th Strategy , by Francis M. Miller, Parker, Colorado. It is available as a work in progress, in its entirety, on the website; www.withregardsto.com * * * * * Sitting up here on my ledge in Castlewood Canyon, w...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~378336.aspx10/16/2007 9:31:48 AMFran Miller You are reading a fragment of a book I am writing: Healthcare 2050; The 13th Strategy , by Francis M. Miller, to be published in 2008. It will soon be available as a work in progress on the website www.withregardsto.com * * * * * Back in the late 1970s, I volunteered to serve on the boa...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~378414.aspx10/16/2007 11:39:55 AMFran Miller This California English teacher has a take on illegal immigration that the grandees of Douglas County might appreciate. Tomatoes and Cheap Labor. CHEAP TOMATOES? "As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Letter-to-the-Editor/Story~378455.aspx10/16/2007 12:35:25 PMFran Miller This recently came to me via a reliable source, but I was hoping some of you could help me vett it before I send it into the Denver Post. One wants to be sure of things in this day of inaccurate punditry and news chicanery, not to mention yellow journalism, law and politics. * * * * * One...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/News/Nation-World/Story~378500.aspx10/16/2007 1:23:40 PMFran Miller You are reading an extra-large, double helping of a fragment from the forthcoming book, Healthcare 2050:The 13th Strategy, by Francis M. Miller, to be published in 2008. It will soon be available as a work in progress on the website; www.withregardsto.com. * * * * Introduction In mo...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~378937.aspx10/17/2007 9:19:07 AMFran Miller The Letter to the Newspaper Section called Answer Man is as follows: Dear Answer Man: I hope you can help me here. The other day I set off for work leaving my husband in the house watching the TV as usual. I hadn't gone more than a few hundred yards down the road when my engi...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Archive/Creative-Writing/Jokes/Story~379037.aspx10/17/2007 11:53:11 AMFran Miller You are about to read a fragment from a forthcoming book, written daily and posted in snippets. It is Healthcare 2050: The 13th Strategy by Francis M. Miller, of Parker, CO. It will soon be available as a PDF work-in-process on www.withregardsto. com for print on demand. * * * * * In a...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~379305.aspx10/17/2007 7:46:45 PMFran Miller With regards to Diet and Exercise: Q: I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life; is this true? A: Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that's it... don't waste them on exercise. Everything wears out eventually. Speeding up your heart will not make you live lo...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Archive/Creative-Writing/Jokes/Story~379951.aspx10/19/2007 9:16:54 AMFran Miller Two recent books have been published by partisans on the left from the Clinton days. The first is Supercapitalism by Robert Reich and the second is Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman. Both men were highly esteemed academics before they became liberal activists. In the case of Reich, ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~380663.aspx10/21/2007 1:28:00 PMFran Miller