The cost of health care is a subject of concern to many (most) citizens and it is a subject high on the agenda of the Democrats. I don't hear too much about it from Republicans and I think they may be missing the boat. Many billions of dollars have been spent over the last few decades to improve health care and I would like to suggest that Senator McCain put in his platform a proposal to spend a couple billion (or some number that seems reasonable to the medical establishment and the bean counters) to research ways to lower medical costs, i.e., develop lower cost equipment, procedures and medicines that will do the job as well.

Hospital Beds

This may seem like one of the more mundane subjects I'm likely to comment on, but, having been hospitalized three times this fall, it's something that I am quite serious about.

One would think that, having spent billions upon billions of dollars and euros over the past few decades on improving medical equipment and procedures, they would invent a comfortable bed.

Part of the problem, of course, is that, with needles in your arms, it's not possible to sleep on your side. Beyond that, there has to be a better design for the bed.

I really see this as a serious problem for the medical community. Being so uncomfortable can have a negative effect on one's desire to live. I have to concede that the opposite effect is also present: It causes one to want to get out of the bed as soon as possible, but ...

Introduction

Those who know me consider me to be a very opinionated person. I consider that my primary function in life has been and is that of an observer.