security, encryption, and healthcare

[Josh Coffman]

I don't know that having the BS helped me or not after I had a few years of experience.
It sounds like a BS alone isn't enough to be taken seriously in Security. Dont really know.

It is my understanding that the Baby Boomers were called such because they were a big population jump following ww2.

I think nationalized (aka socialized) healthcare has more issues than population changes.
Personal opinion, but I'd trust a collective influence of individual decisions more than a centralized generalization by a few pushing influence
over the rest of a society. Stated another way, I trust my own opinions for my own life and my family's rather than handing it over to someone
in DC who doesn't know me and only really cares for continuing their pay and power with no responsibility.

Admittedly, both ways have their issues.

-j


----- Original Message ----
From: Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com>
To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1:16:15 PM
Subject: Re: security, encryption, and healthcare

On 2/27/07, Josh Coffman <josh_coffman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Excellent, Josh!
> Guessing my Math B.S. doesn't get me anywhere, and I'd understand that.
> It's just a B.S.; and I was too tired of being poor to accept the masters program offer. d'oh!
> Sounds like some other certifications would be helpful. Personally, I don't think I have the time. :(

  It is a telling sign that a B.S. no longer gets you anywhere...

>
> So Healthcare is growing, but how does that affect IT?

  Well, where the money goes, IT goes... but that is not necessarily
going to change things for IT people.  I would think that some
background in healthcare would be marketable, but health agencies
manage things in the same way as any other type of organization and IT
people typically arent directly involved in the administration.  One
thing I have found is that managers will sometimes view domain
specific knowledge negatively, because it is threatening to their
position.  Typically managers want highly technical people who are
just simply going to fulfill technical requests and don't have the
possibility of getting involved with the actual administration of the
particular business.

> I think it will become a bubble, and a big one...
> The large, aging sectors of our society will create an increased demand for health services. (Also, seems
> like so many people of various ages have 2-3 prescriptions for misc things.)

  so they say, but the problem is that the younger working people are
going to pay for it.  Health 'insurance' is not really insurance in
the classical sense, its a financial scheme that promotes the sale of
certain types of services, and allows for creative payment structures.
 Im not really sure why we have any more of an 'aging population' than
we have ever had( did the older generation have less kids? ).  It
always seems like healthcare hooplah to me.  Its not hard to figure
out why the Healthcare industry wants to promote this future of
millions of old people hooked up to expensive devices and taking
costly medications.  These are the types of issues that prohibit
national health care plans...  jmz










 
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