Why Is Boulder Snobbish, Cliquish, And Racist? (Denver: new home, university)

[dreamboatannie953]

Hi Tom, I know Flagstaff can't be perfect because I can't think of anywhere that is. But I'm thinking more about Sedona/Flagstaff than Boulder. I really hate Seattle (we live in Auburn).
We just can't take the rainy weather here anymore, we are getting older (I'm 55). I am a vegetarian by choice but I completely agree with what you are saying about some people an't do vegetarian due to a need for animal protein. Our problem is Hubby needs a job as a driver, he is CDL class A. You know of any driver job out there Flagstaff way Tom?

[ZAYTON]

I just wanted too know is boulder racist cuz i wanted too move there for college i have been doing research & found a story where this black student at boulder university was sent racist letters thru her email & i always wanted too move there too colorado but racism is something i don't have time for & 21 tryna get a education but wonna know if the town is racist against black people

[Huckleberry3911948]

bek they have failed to accept somebody?

[subsound]

Originally Posted by Bideshi

Thus my assertion that doctors that do not accept new Medicare patients are not worthy of the respect traditionally accorded physicians. They are focusing on their bottom line and not in treating the sick and needy. Respect them as you would a divorce lawyer or the Governor of Illinois.

So what you are saying is that a physician should push themselves into bankruptcy in order to treat the sick and needy? I can't think of any physician that really wants to turn people in need away (save plastic surgeons), but if treating said patients puts your practice out of business and makes it so you're unable to feed your family...it doesn't make me lose respect if they turn them away.

[Josseppie]

I will be honest the title of this thread caught my interest but I did not go back and read all of the posts so if i say something that has been already posted I apologize.

I think Boulder is more snobbish partly because they are anti growth and limit the amount of growth the city can have. Thus it makes is more expensive to live there and only a certain class of people are able to live there creating the snobbish feel that they have.

I am from Pueblo and we are a democratic city as well, in fact we are known as the states democratic strong hold and the most important democratic city out side the Denver metro area. But Pueblo is the manufacturing center for Colorado thus we are more open to diversity and culturally diverse then Boulder. Just as a comparision.

[Shuffler]

I love going to Boulder to observe all the megalomania on display. It's good entertainment watching people trying so hard to 'be' Boulder. You've got the frumpy, nappy-haired neo-hippies, the urban-chique 'nouveau riche' set, the fat, pale-skinned tourons, college students, and all the usual poseurs and pinheads who wear Chez Guevara t-shirts but most likely don't even know who the guy was.

I love to hate Boulder...it's why I live in Longmont.

[cpm725]

I've lived in Boulder my entire life. Yes, there are snobby and cliquish people here, but then again, where isn't there people like that? Depends on who you associate with and who you partake in activities with. All my friends aren't like that, but I do know some who are.

[CCCVDUR]

Originally Posted by subsound

So what you are saying is that a physician should push themselves into bankruptcy in order to treat the sick and needy? I can't think of any physician that really wants to turn people in need away (save plastic surgeons), but if treating said patients puts your practice out of business and makes it so you're unable to feed your family...it doesn't make me lose respect if they turn them away.

This is not a political board, however, yes, I do feel that those docs in their plush offices "deserve" to go bankrupt *IF* they aren't willing to take what Medicare gives them. For whatever reason, Medicare pays physicians enough to own million dollar homes in my previous locations of Vegas and Seattle, but apparently not over there in Boulder or Santa Fe, or here in Flagstaff. I think there should be federalized Medicare ("Medicare For All"), as radio talk host Jay Diamond has been talking about for quite some time. I am not a socialist, but I see no reason why doctors expect to make 10 times as much money as teachers. In my own admittedly contrarian liberal/libertarian views, everyone is equally entitled to economic opportunity and personal safety via the following: 1) free medical care 2) free health screenings of all diseases 3) free education through college 4) free speech 5) gun rights, and 6) virtually unrestricted private property rights.

[dreamboatannie953]

Good on you Tom, I ditto you on healthcare. So only wealthy people should live and be healthy? What kind of crap is that? My mother passed away on medicare here in the Seattle area from just aweful care. Everytime I complained of how badly she was treated I was told "It's not in our budget". My mother's life wasn't in their budget. I still have nightmares of how she died due to bad healthcare. She passed away on my birthday 9/30/05.

[subsound]

Though off topic, I would like to see millionaires treating just medicare patients (esp APC rates)...I see the medicare financial reimbursement tables every day, it's what I do. I don't like medicare patients getting treated like crap, but considering the massive expenses both the doc (for education) and the facility (for equipment, insurance, and backoffice) I can see it. Doctors don't spend years in education (7+ with rotations, residencies, internships that demand perfect performance), hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans, and work in a high stress environment that demand perfection in doing their job or a person dies to make a fast food works salary. We are losing nurses, family practice docs and internists because the compensation is already so low, people are specializing in fields that make more.

Hospitals that due treat more Medicaid and Medicare patients are embattled at their bottom line, including a bankruptcy casualty in Chicago (Chicago hospital must find buyer or close - FierceHealthFinance - Health Finance, Healthcare Finance).