{"id":1102,"date":"2008-11-21T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T23:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/21\/if-you-want-more-of-something\/"},"modified":"2009-01-10T07:16:23","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T14:16:23","slug":"if-you-want-more-of-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/if-you-want-more-of-something\/","title":{"rendered":"If you want more of something&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8230; <em>subsidize <\/em>it.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/medica-plan.jpg\" title=\"Campus Map\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/medica-plan.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Campus Map\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/medica-sat-image.jpg\" title=\"Sat view\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/medica-sat-image.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Sat view\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Medica Trade Show has 4400 exhibitors on a massive campus in Dusseldorf.\u00a0 It is the largest medical trade show in the world.\u00a0 If you conservatively estimate that the field of view below contains 100 exhibitors, this would be 2.2% of the total.\u00a0 The value of worldwide health care wealth represented at this trade show is probably measured in trillions in whatever currency you want to imagine it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sdim0268-copy.jpg\" title=\"Medica 2008\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sdim0268-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Medica 2008\" height=\"211\" width=\"513\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and another 2 or 3%<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sdim0270-copy.jpg\" title=\"More exhibitors\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sdim0270-copy.jpg\" alt=\"More exhibitors\" height=\"253\" width=\"511\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One exhibitor actually brought an ambulance helicopter into the hall to be a backdrop on a performance art set with the part of Death being played by a white-faced mime on stilts.\u00a0 I kid you not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; subsidize it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health-care","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}