This article is infuriating. Ok, so Medicare paid hospitals $106k-182k to train doctors in 2015… and as someone who graduated from residency in 2014, we were making $40k-55k. So the hospitals were pocketing 60-75% of the payments, and doctors are supposed to feel grateful?
The solution is obvious: if you want psychiatrists to take Medicare, pay them. CMS has already shifted payments toward primary care because they know it’s necessary, but are dragging ass on psychiatry. They could easily fix the shortage of psychiatric services for low income patients by actually incentivizing it, if they actually wanted to.
Replace the “social contract” with an actual contract and you’ll see results.
I hate the concept of a social contract. I didnt sign any such thing. And how da fuck is it the fault of doctors that america is thw worlds greates third world country.
Big pharma undermined its own credibility by pushing opiates and other flawed medicines. The conspiracy theorists brought a tiny spark to a huge pile of debris and now there's a tire fire burning forever. I hope the short term gains and wholesale loss of lives were worth it for these sick individuals.
Perhaps I’m unusual but I am only speeding because everyone else disregards the speed limit in my area, and it would put myself and my family at increased risk if I didn’t go with traffic.
I’d much prefer to go slower for the fuel economy.
I rarely check the speed limit. I always go with the flow in order to avoid accidents. It's downright dangerous to drive the speed limit in some highways.
I usually go slightly faster or slower than most everyone else. It ensures i dont do my entire drive stuck in one of the packs that everyone seems to get caught up in. I'd much rather have half a mile of space between me and the next car than go the same speed as everybody else.
This doesn't work in cities, or other states, but i spend my longest drive times going between cities in texas anyways.
This right here is what defensive driving is supposed to look like. If you have the option to distance yourself from the other cars on the road, that’s always best.
It baffles me seeing a group of cars on the road all bunched up with less than a second between them going 75. If there’s a hazard on the road that the cars behind don’t see, they’re all going to crash into each other when the guy in front slams his brakes.
Driving is all about awareness and predicting what others might do. I just assume at any point, anyone could need to suddenly brake hard. Plan accordingly and position yourself defensively.
Not disagreeing at all, AVgas is nasty, but it's only used by a small portion of planes that are prop driven. Jetfuel is arguably worse, as it's insanely carcinogenic.
I’ll tell you that Iive under the flight path of an airport and even though I rarely notice the planes during the day I definitely notice them at 5am when my body wakes up because of the rumbling I can’t even hear.
While the headline itself isn’t much of a surprise, I’m somewhat bewildered to see diabetes listed among the illnesses. Then again, I know nothing about diabetes.
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