May
04
To the Editor:
Re “Shortage of Doctors Proves Obstacle to Obama Goals” (front page, April 27), about a lack of primary care providers :
As those of us responsible for delivering health care know, the battle between specialists and primary care doctors has been going on for years, and one side has been winning.
The marketplace has rewarded specialists financially, and like any other special interests, they are amply financed for this conflict. Still, I don’t fault them. They have studied and worked hard, and are responding to market incentives, like good red-blooded Americans.
What we really need is a European-style single-payer system, with primary care doctors who emerge from their training with European-style debt loads: zero.
Georganne Chapin
Tarrytown, N.Y., April 27, 2009
The writer is president and chief executive of the Hudson Health Plan, a not-for-profit managed care organization. Read more..
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Apr
06
The Bronx: coming to an automotive garage near you
The mighty mayhem-mongers in The Bronx have canceled their show Wednesday night at Boulder’s Club 156. The reason? “Van trouble,” according to promoter Scott Campbell. Strong men also cry—and, it seems, are prone to bad weather and shitty transmissions. The Bronx’s tourmates, fellow California punk group Trash Talk, have also canceled. But fear not: Both will be playing Thursday at the Larimer Lounge, the second night of the bands’ scheduled ransacking of Colorado. Tickets, though, will not carry over; those holding tix for the Boulder show will need to get refunds at the point of purchase and buy fresh tickets for the Denver gig (or pony up at the door of the Larimer, a venue world-renowned for its stoned, affable doormen). Now that’s what we call pure rock ‘n’ roll fucking chaos.
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Feb
06
Chazz Palminteri retraces his long, tough road home
If Chazz Palminteri had never met Irving “Swifty” Lazar, none of it might have happened.
The encounter between the actor and the late career-making talent agent took place in Los Angeles in the late 1980s. Palminteri, a native New Yorker, had recently moved to California and landed small parts in Hill Street Blues, Dallas, Matlock and several other television series. Lazar was a powerful force who could boost him to the next level.
As it happened, the two did not convene in an office or over lunch on some sun-splashed Beverly Hills terrace. Instead they crossed paths outside a Los Angeles nightclub, where Palminteri, whose luck had gone south, was working as a doorman. Not recognizing Lazar, he barred the agent from entering.
“He said on the spot he would get me fired,” Palminteri recalled recently, “and he was true to his word. I left and went home to my apartment in North Hollywood and sat on the edge of my bed. ‘What the hell,’” he wondered, “‘am I going to do?’” He had $187 to his name at the time. Read more..
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Nov
05
They’re from L.A. They’re called The Bronx.
And on Tuesday night, while Americans coast-to-coast voted Barack Obama into the White House, singer Matt Caughthran (pictured) and guitarist Joby J. Ford stood on wet steps behind The Opera House and thanked their lucky stars.
“We’re feeling pretty safe,” Matt joked. “It could be a dangerous night in the States.”
“But hopefully things work out the way they should.”
The Bronx boys wouldn’t say who they voted for (they mailed in ballots while on tour this fall). But regardless of how the election unfolded, things are definitely working out for the west coast rockers these days. Read more..
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