“The doctor asks the patient some form of the following: “So, what is wrong?” (or, in my case, my doc always asks “So, what are your concerns?”). The doctor listens for an average of 9 seconds, then intervenes with a prognosis. The amount of time the doctor is willing to listen before intervening has gone down over time, presumably as health insurers have pressured doctors to increase throughput and as they have greatly increased the amount of paperwork required of doctors. In other words, it is in the name of efficiency. The efficiency fairies are at work in the doctor’s office to eliminate all that wasteful time spent in creating a doctor-patient relationship.” DoctorsHealthcareInsuranceNprNot ListeningMmtStatistic Author:L. Randall Wray
“The evidence is plain to see all around us: in an era of multiple pandemics that threaten the continued existence of human life on planet earth, we are stymied by imaginary constraints concocted by economists.” MacroeconomicsEcoomics Book:Modern Monetary Theory: Key Insights, Leading Thinkers Source: Modern Monetary Theory: Key Insights, Leading Thinkers
“A half century of neoliberalism has brought the world to the brink of collapse. Only concerted effort and cooperation by the world’s governments provides any chance of survival. Understanding MMT does not make this easy. But it helps us to recognize what the true constraints are: resources, initiative, politics, imagination.” PoliticsEconomicsMacroeconomics Book:Modern Monetary Theory: Key Insights, Leading Thinkers Source: Modern Monetary Theory: Key Insights, Leading Thinkers