Caduceus
Shared on Mon, 04/07/2008 - 11:47Neurotic Gamers @ Kotaku
This follows on the heels of "do you finish every game you get" from last weekend. The comments are telling, in my opinion.
I don't have a 360 and like to think that I wouldn't obsess over getting achievements, but now they're coming to the PS3, so I guess I'll see how much I freak out about points and such.
How much OCD do you have about your RPG experience? Do you reload after every fight or save ammunition for the "good guns" and never even use it? Do you have to get through the game without dying at all?
I find as I get older, I care less about these things, where as a young adult some of the issues discussed would have bothered me more. I guess I can stop the Paxil now.
Hospital Capacity Drives Cost
From AP, for chronically ill patients in their last two years of life, Medicare spends an average of $59,379 in New Jersey but only $32,523 in North Dakota. The difference is primarily a result of patients getting more hospital care, but not necessarily better care, according to a new report.
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You can read for yourself, but the crux of the discussion is that chronically ill patients in higher-populated areas/larger hospitals tend to spend more time as inpatients without necessarily any improvement in outcomes. This causes more tax dollars to be spent in "futile" care that nets no benefit for the patient or family, but take up beds and resources.
I don't mean to sound callous, but these are issues that will need to addressed, especially as the health care crises worsens. The number of elderly patients will continue to blossom as the Baby Boomers pass through retirement age. There was an estimate that I read that within the next forty years there will be over a million Americans that are over one hundred years old.
This follows on the heels of "do you finish every game you get" from last weekend. The comments are telling, in my opinion.
I don't have a 360 and like to think that I wouldn't obsess over getting achievements, but now they're coming to the PS3, so I guess I'll see how much I freak out about points and such.
How much OCD do you have about your RPG experience? Do you reload after every fight or save ammunition for the "good guns" and never even use it? Do you have to get through the game without dying at all?
I find as I get older, I care less about these things, where as a young adult some of the issues discussed would have bothered me more. I guess I can stop the Paxil now.
Hospital Capacity Drives Cost
From AP, for chronically ill patients in their last two years of life, Medicare spends an average of $59,379 in New Jersey but only $32,523 in North Dakota. The difference is primarily a result of patients getting more hospital care, but not necessarily better care, according to a new report.
---
You can read for yourself, but the crux of the discussion is that chronically ill patients in higher-populated areas/larger hospitals tend to spend more time as inpatients without necessarily any improvement in outcomes. This causes more tax dollars to be spent in "futile" care that nets no benefit for the patient or family, but take up beds and resources.
I don't mean to sound callous, but these are issues that will need to addressed, especially as the health care crises worsens. The number of elderly patients will continue to blossom as the Baby Boomers pass through retirement age. There was an estimate that I read that within the next forty years there will be over a million Americans that are over one hundred years old.
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