McKinsley blames technology for our health care woes

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Give us old folks the little blue pill: No, not Viagra.

Samuelson is obviously one of the more
affluent of us as we move toward old age.
Quite happy to increase costs of medical
care and reduce expensive services for
those on Medicare.

Might as well just give us the "little blue
pill" (as my late mother-in-law would say)
and be done with us.

While I'm not firm believer in spending a
fortune to keep some one alive an extra
day or two I do believe in moving
medicine forward, not backward.

That means continual investments in
things like organ and bone marrow
transplants, actually using imaging
technology that;s currently available and
caring for patients as if they were a
member of your family.

As far as us old folks go - hey, we've paid
our dues. Paid gas taxes since we were
16 and you have a lot of roads to drive on
because of that. Same with schools and
other bits of infrastructure younger folks
take for granted.

Sometimes it appears to a layman that a
test isn't really needed. Like a CT scan for
a sore back. Looks like a waste of time,
unless you're one of those patients that
suddenly have a Dx of bone cancer, or a
tumor that has spread from prostate
cancer.

The more medicine advances the more
people of all ages can benefit. There is a
huge social benefit in ensuring that
everyone has access to basic medicine -
even when the definition of "basic
medicine" continues to expand. We've
been that way for a long time, which is
why we don't need rows an rows of iron
lungs in the hospital basement like we
used to have.; Posted by: Ken_z Posted on: 01/12/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use