Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen
Existing Medicaid beneficiaries may be denied preventative care available to new Medicaid beneficiaries. That means wealthier enrollees will get more benefits that poorer enrollees.
Currently there are no physical tests to determine whether a patient has most mental disorders.
“White House has known for months ObamaCare implementation wouldn’t work and is only now publicly admitting it.”
It took that long to figure out how to “spin” it. Are we hearing “the implementation delay is good because…” yet?
Of course there will be two sides to the story, so of course there have been arguments on why it’s a good decision..
But would anybody argue that the delay is better than having the whole thing implemented according to the original timetable?
Surprise! The government is inefficient and slow.
“As far back as March, a top IT official at the Department of Health and Human Services said the department’s current ambition for the law’s new online insurance marketplaces was that they not be “a Third-World experience.” Several provisions had already been abandoned in an effort to simplify the administration’s task and maximize the chances that the new systems would be ready to go live in October, when customers are supposed to start signing up for insurance.”
I didn’t tactfully know there was an Alzheimer’s test.
“These tests don’t offer the certainty of, say, a pregnancy test. Some people who test positive for the Alzheimer’s-linked proteins show no outward signs of the disease.
But a positive result, in combination with symptoms like Jones experienced, is a pretty definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, Greicius says.”
It would be interesting to know how a positive diagnosis effects the development of a mental disease. If you are showing warning signs (and know it) I would assume that you would try to be vigilant in exercising your brain or eschewing behavior that could further it’s development.
“Currently there are no physical tests to determine whether a patient has most mental disorders.”
Let them evolve through scientific research. We need to be careful not to let the government jump and “fix” this by mandating some half-brained method.
Currently there are no physical tests to determine whether a patient has most mental disorders.
You could argue most mental conditions are mere variations in what we consider normal behavior. If you have variation too far from the mean — say, two standard deviations — you are judged to be a nutcase. Certainly there must be a pill for that!
I agree in spirit that it is dangerous to define mental conditions as necessarily bad, although there has to be some point that that is true, right?
“White House has known for months ObamaCare implementation wouldn’t work and is only now publicly admitting it.”
It’s hard to tell politically how and when politicians will admit to glitches in policies they implement or champion.
“White House has known for months ObamaCare implementation wouldn’t work and is only now publicly admitting it.”
Common sense usually prevails