What People Are Predicting, Favoring/Opposing, and Reading

The Good News is the Bad News is Wrong.

Title of Book, by Ben Wattenberg, 1984

January 12, 2012

News #1 – What People are Predicting (Intrade.com)

• Mitt Romney to win South Carolina Primary, 73.9%

• Newt Gingrich to win South Carolina Primary, 23.9%

• Rick Santorum to win South Carolina Primary, 5.0%

• Ron Paul to win South Carolina Primary, 1.3%

• Mitt Romney to win Republican Nomination, 86.5%

• Mitt Romney to be elected President, 42.8%

• Barack Obama to be elected President, 51.0%

News #2 – What People Favor/Oppose (RealClearPolitics.com)


• Obama Job Approval, 45.3%/49.8%

• Congress Job Approval, 13.0%/83.0%

• Direction of Country, Right/Wrong, 28.3%/65.7%

• Democrat/Republican, 43.2%/42.2%

• Obama-Democrat Health Plan, 37.8%/49.6%

• Repeal of Obama-Democrat Health Plan, 49.8%/41.7%

News #3 – What Medinnovation Blog Readers are Reading in 2012

• Power of Humanistic-Technology Integration,16%

• The Time Has Come: Physician Productivity and Telemedicine, 14%

• The ACO Divide: “Pioneers” Vs. Private Practitioners, 14%

• Is Practice Fusion’s “Free” EHR for Real?, 12%

• Humpty Dumpty, Alice, and the SGR, or, Waiting for the Dough,9%

• Difference between Health Care and Medical Care,9%

• CMS Suspends Prepayment Reviews,7%

• Health Care Bright for Nurses.Stinks for Doctors, 7%

• Health Care Polls: Does It Matter What People Think?, 6%

• Should Doctors Be “Parsimonious” About Health Care?, 6%

Tweet: Good News-people engaged politically. Bad News – healthcare going to hell. Things will be OK when economy recovers and we figure out what to do.