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mapremap

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    Comment #35129878

    The guy got off because he was legitimately acting in self-defense.

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    Comment #34714606

    If the cost is 100 for 10 cases, then it's going to be 10 for 1 case. Cost per person is still the same. You need fewer doctors, nurses, and medical devices to treat fewer people.

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    Comment #34701410

    Ok, I see where the problem is. The 10 people requiring the 100 treatment in your example will cost 1000. That's one dollar per person, not one tenth. For the group of 100, 1 perso…

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    Comment #34689200

    It does make sense. A smaller group will have a correspondingly smaller number of people who will end up needing treatment, so the expected value for an individual's cost doesn't a…

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    Comment #34679168

    A risk pool being split among multiple companies doesn't actually increase the average amount that each group would have to pay. For the group of 100 in your example, only one tent…

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    Comment #34675811

    D and E are simply the result of healthcare consumers choosing to spend their money on care that wouldn't even be available under a public system. Taking that into consideration, "…

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    Comment #33132099

    What an empathic viewpoint you have there.

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    Comment #32906158

    How is that policing the police? Are disparities supposed to be evidence of something nefarious going on? Given that there are fundamental distinctions between members in different…