Healthcare Update Satellite — 02-03-2015

Thanks for the patience in putting up with my lack of regular posting. Life has been challenging lately. Still working on it. When government pays for your care, government may try to force its values on you. Learning-disabled mother of six children in England deemed at “grave” risk if she has any more children. Now the government wants to forcibly remove her from her home and sterilize her. A lawyer representing the woman stated that sterilization was “therapeutic.” This process will come to medicine sooner than you think. Just watch. Uber drivers now get to rate their passengers after a ride. When passengers get lower scores, some drivers no longer want to deal with them and they have to wait longer for a ride. “1 star for passengers does not do them any harm. Sensible drivers won’t pick them up, but so what?” One expert interviewed for the article stated that “It’s inevitable that these review systems are coming. What I’m worried about is whether they’re accurate enough. Otherwise, we’re going to get a disinformation economy.” The disinformation economy is already happening with doctors via Press Ganey and its ilk. Wait until it happens with patients and they can’t find a physician willing to care for them. Then watch it happen to hospital administrators as the ratings follow them around after they destroy the morale at one hospital and try to bring their destructive ways to another facility. What’s the sex positio...
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