I Was Wrong

BY KIM BELLARD The New York Times had an interesting set of op-eds last week under the theme “I Was Wrong.”  For example, Paul Krugman says he was wrong about inflation, David Brooks laments being wrong about capitalism, and Bret Stevens now fears he was wrong about Trump voters.  Nobody fessed up about being wrong about healthcare, so I’ll volunteer.   I’ve been writing regularly about healthcare for over a decade now, with some strong opinions and often with some pretty speculative ideas.  I’ve had a lot to be wrong about, and I hope I will be wrong about many of them (e.g., microplastics).  Some of my thoughts (such as on DNA storage or nanorobots) may just be still too soon, but there are definitely some things I’d thought, or at least hoped, would have happened by now. I’ll highlight three: I thought we’d care more about our health   Twenty plus years ago I was an evangelist for what we’d now call digital health.  Give people more, better health information and some useful health tools, then certainly they’d  use them to improve their health. If I’d known about smartphones or wearables I’d have been even more sure. But, it turns out, not so much. Yes, we’re all pretty good about googling health information, many of us have health apps on our phones, and wearables are cool, but we’d be hard pressed to pinpoint exactly how our health has improved, generally speaking.  Our epidemics of obesit...
Source: The Health Care Blog - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tags: Health Policy Public Health Martin Shkreli New York Times Pandemic Source Type: blogs