The Health System We’d Have if Economists Ran Things

By artappraiser on Mon, 02/17/2020 - 6:34pm |

Various ideas to cut costs in Medicare and Medicaid have been proposed in recent years. Health economists generally oppose those changes. https://t.co/aHBtJ4Vm0S
— NYT Health (@NYTHealth) February 17, 2020

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/upshot/health-system-economists-survey.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-upshotnyt

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AOC knows how to compromise? Who woulda guessed.

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5e4ca74dc5b65f25da512ce3

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 02/19/2020 - 1:22pm

A wise commenter said, "Sorry AOC, there is room for only one Bernie in Bernie World'"

by NCD on Tue, 02/25/2020 - 3:00pm

Algorithms...

I’m so thrilled to be launching @themarkup with my favorite topic: price discrimination. Big data and predictive algorithms can enable the ability to tailor prices to individuals on a massive scale, just the way that online ads are now micro-targeted. https://t.co/bblefA1iA0
— Julia Angwin (@JuliaAngwin) February 25, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 02/25/2020 - 12:17pm

Ah thank you for more proof of what many of us have long felt in our gut.

Ya know, I always felt that the holy texts got it wrong about money lenders being the scum of the earth. Insurance companies: far more evil protection racket, gambling on death, disease and destruction with other people's money.

by artappraiser on Tue, 02/25/2020 - 5:53pm

Those are Biden's friends, no?

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 02/25/2020 - 6:11pm

You made me think about some of the ad copy they use and how Uncle Joe does the same memes. Farmers Insurance: We know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. Allstate You're in good hands....

by artappraiser on Tue, 02/25/2020 - 6:20pm

Delaware Insurance industry has his back.

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 02/25/2020 - 7:52pm

I know, but I suspect credit card cos. even more so. Which brings us back to the holy book issue: are the usurers worse than the insurers?

It's a sort of pie-in-the-sky abstraction to think that all the health insurance cos. and the related jobs could possibly be made disappear in the next four years by presidential fiat. Not gonna happen. Even Hillarycare single payer was all set up to phase in over years and years. Nice abstraction to talk about.

Anyone with a sense of reality can see that if Dems have more power in Congress that what's going to end up happening is a public option that will be phased in by age.

"Medicare 4 all" is just a sales meme about ideological approach. Fighting for it doesn't mean it's gonna happen tomorrow if you elect the person. We are talking about a huge part of the whole economy, growing yuger all the time.

by artappraiser on Tue, 02/25/2020 - 8:30pm

It's a topic of the debate right now and this addresses it. One can judge for oneself, don't have to take "Adrianna's" interpretation:

I hadn't read last week's Lancet paper on M4A, but thought I would today since Bernie cites it in his newish-mostly-old set of pay-fors. https://t.co/EXN9DfZaAA

Now that I've read it, I wonder—quite sincerely—how this article got past peer review.
— Adrianna McIntyre (@onceuponA) February 25, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 02/25/2020 - 8:20pm

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submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

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You don’t get it.
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