francolettieri
francolettieri's JournalConservative ideology drastically slows down scientific/technological innovation
Everyone agree with me? Conservative ideology slows down innovation by many ways....
1. Drastically cutting funding directly to research and development
2. Screwing up education through spending cuts and teaching religious ideology instead of science
3. Cutting government funding to Embryonic Stem Cell research
When innovation slows down, it impacts our economy and we start to depend more on other countries that don't have the conservative religious and economic hang ups this country has.
I have come to believe that potential groundbreaking lifesaving treatments for devastating diseases such as Cancer/Aids/Diabetes/Muscular Dystrophy....will be take far longer to be discovered the more conservatives hold power.
And on a slightly different topic, it ticks me off to hear the George W Bush Library raised 500 million dollars as opposed to only 165 million dollars for Bill Clinton's library. Sick!!! what a waste of money.
major upcomming shortage of Doctors who except medicare/ medicaid--offer free training
All I keep reading is that its hard to find doctors who except medicare/ medicaid, and its expected to get much worse once the Affordable Healthcare Act takes full effect. One solution I have that I wish they would talk about....People who want to become doctors should be able to get all their schooling for free, with a few catches and only if they pass a bunch of tests similar to how military pilots can get their training for free. The catch should be, in exchange for their free training, they agree to treat nothing but medicare/ medicaid patients for a fixed amount of years....10 or 15.....So aspiring doctors have a choice, pay your own way and treat only patients with private coverage, or get free schooling/ training and treat the elderly/poor for a fixed amount of time. They need to start such a program, and fast!!
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