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The Citizen's United Supreme Court decision was possibly the worst decision in the history of the court. A serious stretch of logic that was strained nearly to the breaking point. It is unclear what can be done about that one. A Constitutional Amendment would fix the problem, but the 1% will surely kill any chance of it. It looks like we are stuck with a bought and paid for government controlled by a psychopaths.
And now, we have a bad decision from the left. The Affordable Care Act isn't going to do much to deal with the health care in the US. Insurance companies will quickly adjust to the new landscape and collect fat premiums for very weak coverage. And big hospital chains will maybe see fewer write offs. A hard fought piece of legislation that will not substantially improve health care for the middle class and poor.
I had great health care that is starting to fail. My primary care facility is a well equipped clinic. They have pods of clinicians (can remember what they are really called) with one doctor and 3 or 4 nurse practitioners. i think this is a good model as long as you purse the incompetent and the clinic isn't doing that part. Stacey has been seen by three of them for a sinus infection that has been going on for five months. And they are saying things like "The antibiotics are having a placebo affect" when she gets almost well by the end of the course. The problem is this: The NP are not being supervised closely enough. And partly that is because at least one of the 2 or 3 doctors at the clinic is a out and out quack with no understanding (or care, for that matter) about drug interactions.
Really. Nothing in the last year has done anything but reinforce my opinion that people are stupid, lazy, irrational, and incompetent. Just look at the sheep willing to vote in the Republican slaughter house.
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And now, we have a bad decision from the left. The Affordable Care Act isn't going to do much to deal with the health care in the US. Insurance companies will quickly adjust to the new landscape and collect fat premiums for very weak coverage. And big hospital chains will maybe see fewer write offs. A hard fought piece of legislation that will not substantially improve health care for the middle class and poor.
I had great health care that is starting to fail. My primary care facility is a well equipped clinic. They have pods of clinicians (can remember what they are really called) with one doctor and 3 or 4 nurse practitioners. i think this is a good model as long as you purse the incompetent and the clinic isn't doing that part. Stacey has been seen by three of them for a sinus infection that has been going on for five months. And they are saying things like "The antibiotics are having a placebo affect" when she gets almost well by the end of the course. The problem is this: The NP are not being supervised closely enough. And partly that is because at least one of the 2 or 3 doctors at the clinic is a out and out quack with no understanding (or care, for that matter) about drug interactions.
Really. Nothing in the last year has done anything but reinforce my opinion that people are stupid, lazy, irrational, and incompetent. Just look at the sheep willing to vote in the Republican slaughter house.
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