Comments on: Newsflash: Office and ER visits surge http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/newsflash-office-and-er-visits-surge.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/newsflash-office-and-er-visits-surge.html#comment-76966 Anonymous Sun, 01 Jul 2007 14:36:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/06/newsflash-office-and-er-visits-surge.html#comment-76966 The article doesn't say that FFS is the driving factor--that is your belief. It cites what we have long been expecting to increase utilization at this point--aging baby boomers. <br/><br/>Baby boomers are NOT going to age gracefully. They are going to see ill health as an anomaly and not a normal part of the aging process and are going to take their narcissistic entitlement mentality into their senior years to the institutions serving the elderly wrecking havoc with their self-centered expectations just as they did with universities, the tort sytem, employment law, sexual morality, and family stability. The article doesn’t say that FFS is the driving factor–that is your belief. It cites what we have long been expecting to increase utilization at this point–aging baby boomers.

Baby boomers are NOT going to age gracefully. They are going to see ill health as an anomaly and not a normal part of the aging process and are going to take their narcissistic entitlement mentality into their senior years to the institutions serving the elderly wrecking havoc with their self-centered expectations just as they did with universities, the tort sytem, employment law, sexual morality, and family stability.

]]>