Posted by Gary Schwitzer in Health care reform
It’s been a long week. Time to end with some humor on two hot-button health care terms. We are confident you will be amused, if not better informed, after watching these:
Cynical most definitely – if it wasnt unfortunately true then it would be funny. Health care should be a governments priority – without the concern for saving money at the expense of others who need it!
As a primary care doctor, the absurdity is a bit too close for comfort…
Great. I can see the the Doc’s and patient side. I guess the hospital ownership makes me a little fuzzy? Has their business model changed from profiting at full bed days? Is the model turning like agriculture policy where the government pays for empty fields?
This story focuses on a family that may have a rare genetic mutation that increases their risk of heart disease. Unfortunately, the “rare” part wasn’t mentioned until 1,600 words into this 2,100 word story.
While this story adequately addressed 7 of our 10 criteria, the 3 on which it missed were significant omissions, yet could have been easily addressed.
Solid medical conference reporting, with many expert interviews and good context provided. Goes far beyond the conference presentation itself.
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Alan posted on May 20, 2011 at 1:54 pm
Sounds like the NHS except in the UK if you asked for an MRI scan they’d say we don’t have a machine here so you can’t have one even if we wanted to give you one, which we don’t.