As I said...get creamed if you don’t want to get hip.
There is enough fiscal information being passed around everywhere. I do it daily, I’m sure thousands of FReepers do the same...and we are just a tiny corner of the blogosphere.
High gas prices are making people ask questions. And “The bleeping oil companies and speculators” is not a satisfactory answer. Neither is “soak the rich.”
The time I spent with some hospital staffers yesterday gave me a jolt of optimism. The awareness level was EXTREMELY high.
It may be Medicare "rationing" under the Obama/Berwick model, or it may be "case management" by the HMO's that will run under the Ryan plan, or it may just be a huge reduction in doctors and hospitals who will take Medicare, if the solution turns out to be whacking provider payments.
The golden age of unlimited Medicare (hip replacements and ICD's for nonagerians, ten weeks stays in the ICU for clearly terminal patients) paid for by the next generation of workers is over, repeat, over.
I'm not at all surprised that hospital employees understand this completely.
That hospital has been a hive of anti-Obamacare sentiment for over a year; I find that the attitude is carrying over to other issues now.
The place could easily start its own tea party. That’s how conservative it has become.
Somebody is doing some thinking. I email stuff to some of the nurses daily but there is a whole lot more to it than that. They see the writing on the wall.