Docs, pox, Rox & Sox

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

By Bill Sniffin

While wandering around the country this past week, my mind went out for a wander on its own. I’ll give you a few examples.

Let’s start with doctors’ recruitment. Let’s hope the legislature can come up with a way to treat doctors better or we could see a worsening health care crisis here in Wyoming.
Luring new doctors to replace retiring doctors could become a critical pastime in our state if nothing is done about it. Three years ago, the voters in Wyoming narrowly defeated a measure that could have helped the situation. As a result, the son of a friend, a doctor who wanted to come back to Wyoming, ended up in Colorado where state laws allowed him to make $100,000 more. Actually, it cost him $100,000 less for malpractice insurance.

Down in Texas, the legislature enacted new malpractice laws. The latest report is that the list of established physicians waiting to get a license to practice there, according to the New York Times, is 2,500 new doctors long.

That last vote may have made our legislators gun-shy about dealing with the problem in the future, but doing nothing is not a good situation for the people of Wyoming.

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A pox on car thieves! The latest scourge in Denver and Salt Lake City are car thief rings that steal your car when you leave it parked at motels near airports. In an attempt to avoid the high prices of parking at airports, a lot of Wyoming folks stay in airport-area motels and shuttle back and forth. In the past year, however, there have been many cases where nice vehicles were stolen. Now that is an inconvenience!

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The Rockies melted down. One of my favorite teams has always been the Boston Red Sox (after the Colorado Rockies, of course). Watching the 2007 World Series, you could see the value of spending $150 million a year on a baseball team payroll by the Sox versus the $50 million spent by the Rox.

The Rockies will be back and will be favorites in the National League next year, but who can compete against the mighty Sox or the soon to be revitalized New York Yankees?
I watched the World Series in Colorado at my daughter’s house in Montrose. Folks down there were irate about the way Rockies’ management sold home tickets to the Denver games. By using the Internet instead of selling them locally, it allowed Red Sox fans from all over the country to buy tickets and fill the stadium. When you watched those first two games in Boston, you could not find a Rockies fan in the stands. In Denver, the grandstands were filled with faithful from the Red Sox Nation.

Perhaps this is just one of many things the Rockies management will learn from this Series – besides the need to have key hitting.
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