Criminal Justice Careers, Salaries and Job Descriptions

What exactly is a career in criminal justice? It depends on whether you want to be involved in an enforcement organization of the federal government, a local police force or the court system. Depending on whether or not you wish to be a front-line professional in the dangerous area of drug enforcement, an attorney or a scientist who analyzes evidence from crime scenes, there are a whole lot of different criminal justice careers out there where people are still being hired in big numbers in spite of the weak economy.

Bachelor in Health Science Degrees - What's The Upside

A bachelor in health science degree is flexible - so flexible that it's a bit tough to tell what kind of job it will land you. Some paramedics and other medical technicians get the degree to move into a more managerial position but keep a direct connection to patient care. Others take this degree into desk jobs in hospital administration or working for an insurance company. Here's a little more on the bachelor in health science degree

GM's Health Cost Problem - Soon To Be Your Health Cost Problem

General Motors has a product problem and a financial problem. I won't touch on the first: the fact that their products either are junk or are simply perceived as junk, depending on who you ask. But everyone agrees what the top problem in GM's financial structure is: the huge cost of covering health care payments for aging retirees.

GM is variously mocked for being stupid, shortsighted, backwards and all sorts of other nasty things for having made deals with the unions over the past 30 years that saddled the company with this impossible financial burden. But lost in the media coverage about the automakers is this fact: take a look at General Motors' problems and you get a pretty good preview of what's going to happen to the entire U.S. financial system once health care is nationalized.

The Obama camp's line of chatter that we are going to cut health costs by pouring billions more into insurance coverage reminds one of the silly word games of the Bush administration, who made a profession of pasting titles like "Patriot" on laws that nothing whatsoever to do with patriotism.

We're going to discover a couple of things about health care once we go to a nationalized system. First: the problems with U.S. health care don't revolve only around insurance coverage. Anyone who has shepherded a parent through the late stages of life in an American hospital knows that, even with great health insurance, the quality of patient care is being ruined by disorganization, competing physicians who do far too many treatments in the name of avoiding lawsuits, and compensation - yes, even from Medicare - that's often completely out of whack for the services provided. I'll never forget my aunt Flo, a nurse by profession, who was interested enough to look at the details of her heart surgery bills even though they were all covered by Medicare. One physician walked into her room each day, looked at her chart and said nothing to her, and then walked out. Total time of visit: 20 seconds. Total Medicare reimbursement per visit: $160. The government's involvement in medical care to date has done allot more to increase inefficiency and waste than to curtail it, based on what I've seen.

Second, I'll bet that one of GM's problems is that when you cover everyone's health costs, those retirees have a funny way of running to the doctor's office every time they sneeze. What's a health insurer to do? Well, if you're the government, you can restrict access. Take a good look at Ireland, England and a host of other European health care systems, and you'll find long lines of patients waiting to be treated and outright refusal to offer some services. And oh yes, most of those governments happen to be even more bankrupt than our own right now.

So before you laugh at GM, take a look at the "cost saving" health care plans you're going to be paying for before long.