Crash Gordon

Re: the Anthem anesthesia thing: Anthem's plan was to pay flat rates for anesthesia for given procedures, similar to auto mechanics using "book rate" for labor charges. It was not, as news reports tried to make it out, a situation where they would force anesthesiologists to stop providing services after a certain time. Instead, doctors might have to provide extra coding to be paid for all their services. Anesthesiologists argued, probably rightly, that there is sufficient variability in patient requirements to make this unfeasible.

I am an adult who has never had chicken pox. Every doctor I've told this to has assured me (without any testing) that I did have chicken pox; I and/or my parents just didn't notice. The prevailing medical opinion seems to be that chicken pox was universal in the 1950-1970 timeframe. Regardless, I got the Varivax shot as soon as it was available.