For Medicare, too, a higher eligibility age and means testing will be proposed. Democratic resistance will derail most of the longer-term reform efforts, for now. In time, though, some of the changes will have to be put into place to avoid major cuts in benefits.
Thus critical thinking has a creative component: to produce a better product of thought And creative thinking has a critical component: to reshape thinking in keeping with criteria of excellence. Critical thinking without a creative output is merely negative thinking. Creative thinking without a critical component is merely novel thinking. It is easy to be merely negative or novel in oneâs thought.
Critical thinking is that mode of thinking â about any subject, content, or problem â in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully taking charge of the structures inherent in thinking and imposing intellectual standards upon them. (Paul and Elder, 2001).