Comments on: Healthcare on the Hill or in the Home /2011/05/21/healthcare-on-the-hill-or-in-the-home/ Health and Science Blog Covering Brain Topics Sat, 29 Dec 2018 04:00:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: NicholasA /2011/05/21/healthcare-on-the-hill-or-in-the-home/#comment-728516 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 01:13:55 +0000 /?p=6512#comment-728516 Great article overall, but I have to disagree with a few points. Our healthcare system simply is too expensive and needs to be revamped. End of story.

]]> By: Sara Huizenga /2011/05/21/healthcare-on-the-hill-or-in-the-home/#comment-604289 Mon, 23 May 2011 22:59:06 +0000 /?p=6512#comment-604289 My word I love these lines!

“And did I hear one more complaint that all they do in Washington is squabble? Maybe Washington is behaving closer to the will of the people than we give them credit for.”

So true!! Our country’s partisan divide issues seem to have only grown worse with time – how I long for the day when we’re able to stop getting in our own way.

Excellent article, Paloma!!!

]]> By: Isabel (retired ER/ICU RN) /2011/05/21/healthcare-on-the-hill-or-in-the-home/#comment-604283 Sun, 22 May 2011 03:52:13 +0000 /?p=6512#comment-604283 I should specify — when I say they’re far costlier, I’m talking about the cost/benefit ratio, not simply the upfront costs. My late dad, an economic development adviser, would have snorted beer out his nose at these figures.

]]> By: Isabel (retired ER/ICU RN) /2011/05/21/healthcare-on-the-hill-or-in-the-home/#comment-604282 Sun, 22 May 2011 03:48:36 +0000 /?p=6512#comment-604282 Only social entitlement programs are on the table. Corporate entitlements, which believe it or not are far costlier, remain stable or continue to grow.

For all the frightening figures attached to them, human infrastructure like education and healthcare are a vanishingly small proportion of the budget. It’s a wonderful distraction which effectively impedes real progress on fixing the damn budget and putting America in the position of having a future as a world leader again, instead of a dead weight.

Imagine watching someone eat a $3,000 cheeseburger which you paid for, while you complain about the 3 cents their extra ketchup cost.

I pull figures from the CBO every so often to do a sanity check, and this pattern is absolutely consistent.

So, um … Where’s the stuff on brain & neurology? You had some good articles about that at one point.

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