Political quote
I don't discuss politics much here, but regardless of anyone's stance on health care, I'd think any rational person should agree that some of the doom and gloom rhetoric has been downright silly (or would be, at least, if not for the extra dosing of threatened violence). So in that spirit:
"So after I signed the bill, I looked around to see if there were any asteroids falling or some cracks opening up in the earth," [Obama] said to laughter and applause. "Turned out it was a nice day; birds were chirping, folks were strolling down the mall, people still had their doctors."
quoted from FirstRead
Comments
Moving away from politics... Good to hear your experiences with the e-reader. I was just talking to a friend the other day who'd bought a Sony for her teenage daughter. Maybe I'll take a look at that sometime and see how it feels to me. She was lamenting the lack of e-library resources that she'd found--the local library isn't part of any of the groups in OverDrive, so there are silly hoops to jump through to participate there...and even then, most of the books are audiobooks, not ebooks. But oh well, hopefully that kind of thing will expand in the next few years.
Certainly more will need to be done to bring in more primary care docs, and my hope would be that that entails restructuring the balance of the pay for primary care vs. specialists, which would also work in my wife's favor, of course. Specialists will howl, though. It'll likely also involve increased numbers of mid-levels (PAs, NPs, etc.), which is fine, and probably a good way to keep costs from rising too fast.
I'm mostly pleased with the plan, especially just the fact that it's finally passed and we can move on, but I agree it isn't perfect at all, and a more progressive (which is to say socialist ;) ) bill would have done much more to rein in costs.
Hah =)