Public health care

Hello everybody!

Let me tell you what I think about public helath care.

Public health care

Austria has public health care, meaning that essential health services are paid by the government. What services are regarded as ‘essential’ is always being debated. It is not always clear if a surgical procedure is really needed and should be paid by the government. My first example, which I will give you is a tattoo which the patient says is causing him mental distress. I think such a tattoo can be really a heartache, but I’m against payment by the government, if it hasn’t to be removed immediately because of health reasons. If you decide yourself for a tattoo you have to be aware of the consequences, especially when you don’t like it anymore. Let me give you another example, which is a breast reduction on a 13-year-old who is being teased in school because of her breast size. In this case I think a breast reduction should be paid by the government, because this girl isn’t able to do something against it. This is also true for, cosmetic surgery on an actor’s large nose, which she claims is haring her career. It’s not her fault. She earns her life as an actress and if she won’t get a nose surgery, her job would be affected. In my opinion the government should also pay for this surgical procedure.

What do you think about this topic? Please let me know what you think about it.

Regards,

Jakob

Businessweek

Hello everybody!

Today I’d like to tell you about my business week.

Last week I worked at the company Meinhart. It is a cable business. The company is located in St. Florian (Austria) and employs about 150 employees.

Every day I started working at 7 o’clock am and finished at 4 o’clock pm. It took me about 20 minutes to drive to work. At 12 o’clock I had a short lunch break for 30 minutes. There is the possibility to go to the cafeteria where you can buy tasty food that is really affordable.

My main tasks at internship were to process all important freight documents and to coordinate the transport of the goods from the company to the customers.

For me it was a really good possibility to see the everyday work and I was able to collect a lot of new and interesting impressions for my career choice.

Regards

Jakob

Autonomous cars

Hello everybody!

I was reading an article the other day in the online edition of The Economist and it talks about autonomous cars.

I thought you might be interested because we all might drive autonomous cars in the near future.

Cars have already changed the way we live. They are likely to do so again. For decades, humans have dreamed of driverless vehicles.

Meanwhile, a variety of driver assistance technologies are appearing on new cars, which will not only take a lot of the stress out of driving in traffic but also prevent many accidents. More and more new cars can reverse-park, read traffic signs, maintain a safe distance in steady traffic and brake automatically to avoid crashes.

It also says that self-driving cars are no longer a futuristic idea. Companies like Mercedes, Google and Tesla are working on concepts allowing cars to cruise along on the highway without driver intervention. They also promising technology that detects pedestrians and cyclists.

The idea about automated cars is that they would eliminate human error that means no accidents from drunkenness and sleepness. Computers brake faster than humans. And computers can sense when cars ahead of them are breaking.

The biggest benefits of self-driving cars are that they will help to make roads safer and people’s live easier.

What interested me most was that it will be possible for all of us to buy a car which can drive without human activity in the near future.

On the one hand there are a lot of advantages for autonomous cars, but on the other hand there are still many disadvantages, for example: many taxi and lorry drivers will be unemployed. In my opinion, this would be catastrophic for the economy.

What do you think about autonomous cars?

Regards

Jakob