Kindle has the web browser removed for international version according to wifinetnews. Sadly this means I will be waiting for a next generation ebook reader or software update that includes a browser as I live in Europe currently.
Why didn't they plaster a few of these on the roof to run it on solar power during the day? above the clouds so great power generation. It probably doesn't make sense to only have enough to power everything and waste weight on batteries and extra power to store. Still this doesn't seem very futuristic to me.
just a plausible example..
http://www.siliconsolar.com/flexible-solar-panels.html
What you said was slightly contradictory. Human medical study is really hard, but not too hard that they area beating away people with a stick(test)?
You noticed that a lot of people wanted to go into medicine when their government is willing to chuck out a ton of money and make the incentives better. That created a problem of having the field flooded and then they had to limit who could become a doctor? Let the market do that on its own. The only things the government needs to do is make sure that practicing doctors are of a certain standard.
I also have the opinion that if you could somehow bring down some of the downsides it couldn't hurt. Such as simplifying insurance (examples off the top of my head) through standardization and simplification of things such as how they present their policies and how their billing works. Also standardization of medical records would greatly simplify things. An independent organization would probably be better than the government at this. The government could offer incentives for standardizing though. I think that would be a better return on the governments money than subsidizing it, which would end up having so many scary issues.
Yes I know that they could pick a standard that isn't the best. Sometimes the good standard is better than motley greats.
In the US we do have an MCAT, but that is not there to limit the people that enroll. The reason the MCAT is there is because we have a limited amount of people willing to teach our next generation of doctors as they get paid well in their field and we don't want to waste those resources on drop-outs.
Dunkelfalke,
You have hit on the demand, but you forgot about supply. If i saw doctors making millions a year, I would want to be one. So would everyone else, so more people would become doctors. Then in order to get more business the doctor would have to charge less in order to both take customers away from other doctors and try to grow the demand. Yes you would eventually see that the best were able to charge more. However if all doctors are of a" certain minimum standard" that means that eventually everyone could afford cheap health care that is of that standard, but the rich could still get better if they so chose. The key is providing a minimum standard and then the market will balance itself out between the reward of being a doctor vs the cost of being a doctor.
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Kindle has the web browser removed for international version according to wifinetnews. Sadly this means I will be waiting for a next generation ebook reader or software update that includes a browser as I live in Europe currently.
Why didn't they plaster a few of these on the roof to run it on solar power during the day? above the clouds so great power generation. It probably doesn't make sense to only have enough to power everything and waste weight on batteries and extra power to store. Still this doesn't seem very futuristic to me. just a plausible example.. http://www.siliconsolar.com/flexible-solar-panels.html
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What you said was slightly contradictory. Human medical study is really hard, but not too hard that they area beating away people with a stick(test)? You noticed that a lot of people wanted to go into medicine when their government is willing to chuck out a ton of money and make the incentives better. That created a problem of having the field flooded and then they had to limit who could become a doctor? Let the market do that on its own. The only things the government needs to do is make sure that practicing doctors are of a certain standard. I also have the opinion that if you could somehow bring down some of the downsides it couldn't hurt. Such as simplifying insurance (examples off the top of my head) through standardization and simplification of things such as how they present their policies and how their billing works. Also standardization of medical records would greatly simplify things. An independent organization would probably be better than the government at this. The government could offer incentives for standardizing though. I think that would be a better return on the governments money than subsidizing it, which would end up having so many scary issues. Yes I know that they could pick a standard that isn't the best. Sometimes the good standard is better than motley greats. In the US we do have an MCAT, but that is not there to limit the people that enroll. The reason the MCAT is there is because we have a limited amount of people willing to teach our next generation of doctors as they get paid well in their field and we don't want to waste those resources on drop-outs.
Dunkelfalke, You have hit on the demand, but you forgot about supply. If i saw doctors making millions a year, I would want to be one. So would everyone else, so more people would become doctors. Then in order to get more business the doctor would have to charge less in order to both take customers away from other doctors and try to grow the demand. Yes you would eventually see that the best were able to charge more. However if all doctors are of a" certain minimum standard" that means that eventually everyone could afford cheap health care that is of that standard, but the rich could still get better if they so chose. The key is providing a minimum standard and then the market will balance itself out between the reward of being a doctor vs the cost of being a doctor. Idayen