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By: Nurses With “Do Not Disturb” Signs: Government-Directed Health Care - Better Health

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:00:39 +0000

[...] Pick any two. [...]

By: Tim Hulsey, MD

Tim Hulsey, MD — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:00:26 +0000

Actually, there is a fourth dimension: Total coverage. That’s really all Obama wants to think about. He wants to be able to say that everyone is covered! He really doesn’t give a care about the other three points. As with most things “government,” they just want to be able to say, “We have a program for that.” Whether it works or whether you can actually talk to the government about it is unimportant!

By: When Nurses Wear "Do Not Disturb" Signs | Blog by Dr. Wes

When Nurses Wear "Do Not Disturb" Signs | Blog by Dr. Wes — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:49:15 +0000

[...] Pick any two. [...]

By: ali

ali — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:03:47 +0000

love this-thinking i’ll put it up at work!

By: WhiteCoat

WhiteCoat — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:40:52 +0000

Dx is right – we are not talking about absolutes.
But it is interesting that two people chose free and quality. That system exists in many other countries right now in the form of socialized medicine. People in such systems who can afford to do so are going elsewhere to get their health care faster.
http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=2748.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070914/belinda_Stronach_070914/20070914

By: Kat

Kat — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:48:33 +0000

Simple! Free and quality medical care. Because if the care has quality, then it would be quick; The “free” comes as an asset!

By: Dx:Ddx

Dx:Ddx — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:16:43 +0000

The paradigm isn’t that you have to pick only two, but that if you push in one direction, the other two suffer. Fast costs more, good costs more, cheap isn’t good, etc. Actually, the way I have sen this stated( Everett Koop in the 1990′s) was the three, cost, accessibilty(?=fast), quality, and you could only maximize two of the three.
I agree with the concept of balance. I do not believe the market is a balancing force…

By: Dethl

Dethl — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:08:17 +0000

Personally, I would like it good and cheap. I don’t really want to have a poorly done surgery that would leave me crippled in some way for life, and I doubt anyone wants to pay large amounts of money to be healthy. Speed isn’t exactly that important to me. I wouldn’t schedule anything dreadfully important right after a appointment, and I doubt I would care much about some sort of appointment if I was feeling sick and going into the ED on the spur of the moment. Only if I was stuck in a surgery wait list for months upon months would I be cursing the health care system.

Also, hi.