dagblog - Comments for "Rural Hospitals Are Shuttering Their Maternity Units" http://dagblog.com/link/rural-hospitals-are-shuttering-their-maternity-units-35811 Comments for "Rural Hospitals Are Shuttering Their Maternity Units" en Yglesias is VERY correct here http://dagblog.com/comment/325369#comment-325369 <a id="comment-325369"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/rural-hospitals-are-shuttering-their-maternity-units-35811">Rural Hospitals Are Shuttering Their Maternity Units</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Yglesias is VERY correct here, mho!  It's <u><em>the combination</em></u> of a for-profit model with elaborate confusing wily-nily regulation with vague socialist goals that gives us a uniquely terrible result:</p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">This is a good analogy!<br /><br /> But in fact regulatory restrictions on the supply of doctors &amp; hospitals are an important driving of high prices for American health care services. <a href="https://t.co/ispOaWujsA">https://t.co/ispOaWujsA</a></p> — Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1637452384006709249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> </div></div></div> Sun, 19 Mar 2023 16:26:30 +0000 artappraiser comment 325369 at http://dagblog.com Here is an even worse fact.. http://dagblog.com/comment/325233#comment-325233 <a id="comment-325233"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/rural-hospitals-are-shuttering-their-maternity-units-35811">Rural Hospitals Are Shuttering Their Maternity Units</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Here is an even worse fact.. average life expectancy in USA has not increased more than a year since 2000. Healthcare spending, inflation adjusted, has gone up about 2.5-3x during same time period.</p> — PharmaHeretic (@Pharmaheretic) <a href="https://twitter.com/Pharmaheretic/status/1633710386078961664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> </div></div></div> Thu, 09 Mar 2023 14:28:27 +0000 PeraclesPlease comment 325233 at http://dagblog.com