Back Next Week - Emptying the Nest

Posted on August 27, 2008
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DrRich will be preoccupied for the next week or so, packing, driving, unpacking, etc. his youngest child off to year 1 of college, then trying to come to terms with the utter strangeness of how quickly it all goes by.   Before too long, he hopes, he will come to see blogging as an aid in his recovery process, and at that point he will return.

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5 Responses to “Back Next Week - Emptying the Nest”

  1. Red Baron on August 28th, 2008 5:37 am

    A fond thought towards you and your little one from across the electronic ‘ether’.

    Regards

    :-)

  2. Dr. Val on September 1st, 2008 9:40 am

    Don’t forget your little nest of blog readers who need feeding! We eagerly await your return… :)

  3. Red Baron on September 1st, 2008 10:25 am

    I still can’t find a graph that displays a fractal analysis of healthcare spending over time.

    But I did come across this link, which makes a similar point in explaining why rationing is necessary in non-linear (fractal) systems.

    Regards

  4. dr. bean on September 2nd, 2008 6:17 pm

    Just read your book and found it very interesting and useful for interpreting and predicting the behavior of insurance companies and policy pundits alike. I thought your proposed solution interesting too. However, you did not address necessary rationing of DIAGNOSTIC services. We spend quite a bit on those (haven’t done any homework on how much yet) and I’d love your take.

  5. Red Baron on September 7th, 2008 4:23 pm

    dr. bean,

    Why not train mid levels & even art students to reading diagnostic studies (you know they would probably have better eyes than most radiologists!) I would certainly see this happen before I started rationing imaging; radiologists would just need to oversee their quality like pathologists oversee lab techs reading pap smears.

    There is lots we can do to lower the costs of diagnostic studies before we started rationing them.

    Break the specialty monopolies

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