Hits and Misses
Is Paul Krugman a shameful floccinaucinihilipilificator?
PCPs are opting out: choosing less rigorous work for hospitals, concierge practice and retirement.
3D printing breakthrough: Surgeons replace entire skull.
At least three states with their own ObamaCare exchanges may let healthcare.gov take over.
Ontario, Canada’s largest province, moves to outlaw all gifts from drug-makers to doctors.
“PCPs are opting out: choosing less rigorous work for hospitals, concierge practice and retirement.”
But wait, what about all these insured people now, especially that it’s now so “affordable”, where will they get care?
“Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ranks each county’s health using 13 factors – only two involve the health-care system.”
Good point. Access and quality of healthcare are important, but there are many other significant factors contributing to health that need to be considered.
“floccinaucinihilipilification.”
I had to Google that one.
I thought it was a typo…
I thought they fell asleep at the keyboard…
The author is finds an alternate way to say something that might be perceived as insulting and thus uses the aforementioned words. He wants to show that he is an enlightened individual capable of utilizing fancy and elaborate vocabulary to express his thoughts. I think that the author masterfully uses advanced vocabulary as a response to Krugman’s claims of the author’s incompetency.
Doctors visits are going to be much more difficult to come by if primary care doctors leave for less strenuous work. Especially under ObamaCare.
Care is going to become not so affordable anymore, and more scarce. This isn’t a good time to a sick person who consumes more health care services.
3D printing is a fascinating technology. The opportunities are endless in the future.
Especially in regards to healthcare. One day they can print out a new skull, its only a matter of time before you can print out new organs. The cure for diabetes will be new pancreases for everyone.
“Canada’s largest medical regulator would bar doctors from accepting almost any gift from a pharmaceutical company under a proposed new ethics policy.”
Can’t say this is a bad idea. Pharma reps have been buying gifts and dinners for doctors and other healthcare professionals for years to get their product out there.
“A few U.S. states whose newly created Obamacare insurance exchanges were stalled by technology failures may join the federal government’s HealthCare.gov marketplace for next year.”
Do they possibly think it will work that much better?
None of the online exchanges work very well. If you wanted an online marketplace for health insurance, you can’t do much better than ehealth.com
“Republicans have sought to defund it, even shutting down the government last year in an attempt to do so.”
The Republicans shut down the government last year because of ObamaCare. That’s a little biased, no?
The author that utilizes floccinaucinihilipilificator creates a sound argument about Krugman’s new perspective to the field. He criticizes the destructive stance taken by Krugman to push his ideals forward. Instead of a scholarly debate, he is inciting “dog fights”. Krugman is not giving arguments to support his claims and is not respecting arguments from opposite sides, which are giving a negative connotation to the debates. Nothing good can come from a fight in which both parties are focused on attacking the other individual (not his ideas, the attacks have become personal). Krugman attitude is harming the field of economics, and is despising the high honor that is to be a Nobel Laureate.
I am surprised about the 3-D print. a young man is transplanted most of his bones by this technique.
Is Paul Krugman a shameful floccinaucinihilipilificator?
That is where my handle came from.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ranks each county’s health using 13 factors – only two involve the health-care system.
I checked and of the two factors that involve the health care system (quality and access to care), one is very relevant (quality) and the other has taken on a political element. When public health advocates talk about access to care, what they generally mean is: 1) care free at the point of services? is health insurance provided socially? are patients insulated from having to reach for their wallets during a medical encounter? It all the above aren’t answered with a “yes”, our system is rated lower than countries where these questions are true.