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posted by Robin Cook on March, 06 ]]> /author_blog_posts/16031531-hi-everyone-here-is-a-really-short-post-as-soon-as-i-stand-up-from-my Sat, 18 Nov 2017 12:42:35 -0800 /author_blog_posts/16031531-hi-everyone-here-is-a-really-short-post-as-soon-as-i-stand-up-from-my
This past week there have been two stories in the news, which I feel obligated to comment on. The first is that the Trump administration is thinking of reversing the progress that has been made in moving away from fee-for-service medicine, one of the prime instigators of the relentless rise in healthcare costs. The idea was to base payment more on outcome (meaning quality of care) than the mere provision of care irrespective of outcome. Under fee-for-service doctors and hospitals actually benefitted when a patient's condition worsened instead of improved. Fee-for-service has also been a prime cause of 'over utilization', encouraging healthcare providers to do more rather than less even in those circumstances less might be better for everyone. Obviously reverting to fee-for-service will not help bring down healthcare costs and the premiums required to support them. The other issue that has come up is that the Senate Republicans are adding a repeal of the healthcare insurance mandate in the 'supposed' tax reform bill. Those of you who read my previous healthcare posts will know that the mandate is one of the three provisions that make health insurance work. It is like a three legged stool. Take one away and the whole thing collapses. The other two are: (1) the acceptance of people with pre-exisiting health conditions and (2) government support for people of limited economic means to pay the premiums. The irony here is that the Senate Republicans are supposed to be acting in the general publics best interest.

That's it! Now you have to agreed this was short post for me. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Now I have to get back to plotting my next book after I push Primo out of my seat. All the best, Robin Cook





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posted by Robin Cook on January, 07 ]]> /author_blog_posts/15946812-hello-everyone-time-for-another-post-i-promise-to-make-this-one-truly Sun, 17 Sep 2017 10:52:21 -0700 /author_blog_posts/15946812-hello-everyone-time-for-another-post-i-promise-to-make-this-one-truly
With this post, I am going to include some links to articles that those of you who have read CHARLATANS might find interesting. I’m also going to include the FACEBOOK profile page of Gail Shafter, which I think might bring a smile to the faces of those of you who have read CHARLATANS, as it lends a fun but charlatan-like authenticity to the CHARLATANS� storyline!

As a final point I wanted to say a few words in reference to my last post where I talked about the challenges of going from a book to a movie as I am struggling with it in relation to the CHARLATANS screenplay. Now many of you probably have your own preferences as to cases where the transition has worked well and you liked the movie as well as the book or even better, although most often people feel the book is better as it depended on ones� own imagination rather than the movie director’s or screen writer’s. It is easy to google ‘best book to movie adaptions� which will include the usual like THE GODFATHER, GONE WITH THE WIND, STAND BY ME (actually adapted from a Steven King short story), GOODFELLAS (book was WISE GUY), and the Harry Potter books to name a few. But I want to introduce you to one that you will not find on these ‘google-able� lists. And that is the movie THE AFRICAN QUEEN with Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn. It is an old black and white movie, of course, but I loved it and didn’t even know it was also a book by C.S. Forester until I ran across the book in the room of a Bed And Breakfast. Just for fun, I read the book and also loved it so much that I went back and watched the movie again. After loving the movie just as much for the second time, I went back and reread the book and liked that just as much also. In other words it is the only time I haven’t been able to decide which one is better! So…I challenge you people to give THE AFRICAN QUEEN a try or tell the rest of us in a comment if there is another book-movie combination that you cannot decide which is better.

So that’s it…I confess the post is not as short as I intended, but as I explained before, I am a novelist or I am trying to be a novelist lol All the best to every one, Robin Cook

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