California

[300UGUY]

Kaiser Industries was in just about everything at one time... ship building, auto manufacturing, minerals, metals, aerospace, etc...

A very small after thought way back when was a Healthcare system for employees... fast forward and it is the engine that drives Kaiser Permanente.

Kaiser is still paying pensions to folks who worked in Willow Run Michigan, the last car produced was in 1953!! The Willow Run plant was built by Ford in the 40's to build B24 bombers. After Kaiser, it was bought by GM, to become transmission plant, until 2010, when it was closed. Part of it is being converted to a museum about the bomber days.

 

[California]

Kaiser Industries was in just about everything at one time... ship building, auto manufacturing, minerals, metals, aerospace, etc...

A very small after thought way back when was a Healthcare system for employees... fast forward and it is the engine that drives Kaiser Permanente.

Kaiser Permanente has been cited as a model for various national health care plans. They have managed to control costs across large populations by an emphasis on preventive medicine - annual checkups, immunizations, pre and post-natal care etc, based on the premise its less expensive for them and kinder to the customer to identify problems hopefully long before they require urgent care. Doctors are salaried so this lessens the incentive to propose costly and drastic treatments. Records are now computerized so it doesn't matter which office you visit. While some individuals can pay more for medical care and arguably get better care, Kaiser's methods serve as a model for controlling the cost of healthcare across large populations. This is of interest to employers who pay the health care for their employees, and can be an example of how to administer taxpayer-paid health care where the emphasis is on controlling cost.

 

[ultrarunner]

Kaiser has come a long way from the 60's and 70's where people often were ashamed to admit they had Kaiser...

I tried to get it as an option where I work and it would have saved a few bucks... Admin was dead set against it.

 

[jerrybob]

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[dickfoster]

From:
North Beach tenant's rent increased from $1,8 to $8, a month - SFGate

A North Beach tenant recently received notice from his landlord that the rent on his North Beach apartment was going up from $1,800 a month to $8,000, ABC 13 reports.

Last year, Bernal Heights tenant Deb Follingstad made headlines when she posted a notice from her landlord on Facebook stating that her rent is jumping from $2,145 to $8,900.

I don't know why anyone would want to live in that cesspool anyway much less pay that kind of money. Of course if they don't have it already the landlords are begging for rent control and then they'll piss and moan like some kind of wounded animal. All while they brought it on themselves. It's stupid, really, really, stupid to piss in your own soup like that.

 

[downsizingnow48]

When we bought a place in Mendocino County a while ago I studied the last several years of building permits to get an idea what was going on in construction. About half were to replace existing electrical panels with 300 amp units. That is to run back yard (or bedroom) growing operations. It is very lucrative to get a medical prescription then grow a lot more plants than allowed. I have family in Nevada County and Calaveras County where growing has also grown rapidly. From what I have seen many growers are generally opposed to full legalization because it would reduce their profits.

 

[houstonscott]

Most of those who built California left long ago. HS

 

[ultrarunner]

Kaiser killed my best friend back in the 90's due to a terrible mis diagnosis. His nephew was an attorney....took the case and won a big multi million dollar lawsuit for his wife. Tragic event!

I did not want to go into details but this is the reason my administrator refuses to allow Kaiser... she said they nearly killed her father and said Kaiser will never be an option.

So then I related my story to her...

I was best man at my friends wedding... years later he developed two brain tumors... the prognoses was not good... he had the top people in Kaiser working on it... the head for neurology said there was an experimental procedure using a Gamma Knife in Sweden that showed real promise.

Kaiser sent him to Sweden for the treatment and 21 years later he is doing great...

Hard to imagine but true.

 

[ultrarunner]

The problem with grower in Calaveras as related by my friends and from what I saw is they basically camp at the grow site... have dogs for protections and erect makeshift security... there are also numerous cases where water has been diverted and clear cutting...

 

[ultrarunner]

This weekend I went to check on several listings down in the Gilroy area... farms and ranch property.

It was never less than 100 degrees and the are looked like a fire waiting to happen... single roads into box canyons and everything tinder dry.

I want over the hill towards Watsonville and the temps dropped 20 degrees and all the farms were in full production and lush and green...

Living near the coast is sure comes with benefits...

 

[dickfoster]

This weekend I went to check on several listings down in the Gilroy area... farms and ranch property.

It was never less than 100 degrees and the are looked like a fire waiting to happen... single roads into box canyons and everything tinder dry.

I want over the hill towards Watsonville and the temps dropped 20 degrees and all the farms were in full production and lush and green...

Living near the coast is sure comes with benefits...

I always liked the road between Salinas and Monterey, Hwy 68.
Beware the coastal commission. They're constantly up your backside with a microscope. I have a friend with a house in The Carmel Highlands and they drive him nuts. He couldn't even cut down a dead tree. Property owner has no rights.

 

[ultrarunner]

With the decriminalization and easy medical exemptions... I thought anyone could grow now?

Not a day goes by without the smell of weed in the air... people openly smoke and just this morning, stopped at a red-light, the smoke was wafting from the car next to me.

I wonder how many have contact highs from proximity?

I'm very much a live and let live person...

That said, I don't want more impaired drivers on the road.

Don't overlook the kids that are raised in this environment... they are helpless for the most part...

 

[ultrarunner]

I always liked the road between Salinas and Monterey, Hwy 68.
Beware the coastal commission. They're constantly up your backside with a microscope. I have a friend with a house in The Carmel Highlands and they drive him nuts. He couldn't even cut down a dead tree. Property owner has no rights.

True... which is how it is in my city too.

I need a permit to remove a tree except for Eucalyptus... the permit fee is refunded for dead trees.

 

[dickfoster]

True... which is how it is in my city too.

I need a permit to remove a tree except for Eucalyptus... the permit fee is refunded for dead trees.

When I have a dead tree on my property, down it goes and it's only my business. In fact I can cut them all down if I want to. After all they are my trees on my property.