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And that is the claim I was contesting. You seem to have an odd intuition that a line of argument that does not reduce to a computing problem is "emotional". Even if one does not b…

Well you yourself said it reflected the same kind of "emotional thinking" that led to millennia of "torture and abuse". What I am trying to show is that there are plenty of good re…

You're missing the point because you don't understand the gravity of the crime. A minimum wage fast food worker is constantly observed by a phalanx of cameras that will incriminate…

This is absolutely correct and should not have been downvoted. It is the abuse of a position of trust that aggravates this crime relative to that of a simple outlaw street dealer. …

Right, it's not easy and there are adverse selection issues when you start incentivizing doctors to avoid complex cases that are more likely to involve complications. And the scien…

"Not all that much" is not how I would describe a chart like this: http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/medicalpubs/diseasemanag... And lung cancer is not the only cancer caused by …

> Even beyond that the absolute rate of cancer deaths in the US peaked in 1990 216 per 100k vs 2015 at 158 per 100k. Which is a massive drop even over 1950's pre screening and youn…

Treating infectious disease than can cause cancer (H. pylori, HPV) has nothing to do with cancer treatment. Treating, for example, thyroid or prostate cancers that would not have k…

"People cared" maybe plays a bigger role than you realize here. There were stronger social norms back then about the role of medical care in society. Most hospitals were community …

>Heath care has gotten vastly better over time. Look at 5 year cancer survival rates for example. No. These rates are affected by more screening procedures. Some nipped a potential…

>Maybe some sort of system where if the provider states that something is medically necessary then they are on the hook if insurance denies the claim Not only should a provider be …

Nice idea, but how realistic is it? Most patients are not scientifically-literate, some are flat out incapacitated. For all the stories about heartless insurance companies denying …

But genetics may or may not be the "base truth" in regard to disease risk. It's difficult to tease out the effects of genes as opposed to environment. When your model has thousands…

C'mon people...this is not science, this is fortune telling. They are just doing a bunch of huge multiparameter curve fits, which are going to pick up signal from all sorts of thin…