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Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in U.S. (2016)
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#32And a sizeable portion of that medical error is due to poor device UX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XJbwN6EZ4I
This is a fantastic video that I'd never seen before (as a programmer who largely focuses on building user interfaces!) Thanks.
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#33Or maybe not: https://youtu.be/Jbsy7VObyyM
He’s apparently so important and busy that he has to make these videos while driving in his super car from point A to point B. 15 years ago, this “content” would have been a blog post, which we could have skimmed in 30 seconds to get the gist of the counter argument. Now it’s a 10 minute video with no notes, buried behind 2 ads. Next time, give us a 2 sentence summarization of the argument you’re linking.
Can you spare the rest of us and give the aforementioned two sentence summarization?
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Medical insurer's profits are limited to a percentage of their gross income, so, more expensive medications and procedures are preferred to less expensive ones in order to preserve overall income.
I don't understand. If you pay $5000 a year for your medical insurance, but it paid $10k for your medication, how have they made money? If they could purchase the same medication for $2000 instead, surely it would be more profitable for them?
> If they could purchase the same medication for $2000 instead, surely it would be more profitable for them?
If the 60% profit margin is illegally high, then no, it's worse. They'd be better off paying more money for the same thing.
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#35And a sizeable portion of that medical error is due to poor device UX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XJbwN6EZ4I
Thank you Tesla for replacing hardware buttons with menu driven touch screens and autopilot that will drive you home safely. Additionally thank you for causing such a hype that other car manufacturers feel like they missed the boat and are copying these brilliant features. /s
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let the market decide!11! Mark Cuban's project of selling off-brand medication for cheap is great - insurance companies don't want to work with them, but if said insurance companies still require their customers to pay for medication and that project is even cheaper than that, they'll get competed out of the market. Also that free market thing is a lie, it's in the medical industry's interest to keep prices high and…
>> Mark Cuban's project of selling off-brand medication for cheap is great It's great and going to help a lot of people. But it's still not cheap compared to a lot of other countries which either provide free medication or medication for a fixed fee per item (usually around $10-20, varies by country).
As someone who lives in a country where medication is "free", I always like to clarify that "free" in these kinds of contexts means "free at the point of delivery" - we're all perfectly aware that they are paid using money from taxpayers.
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#38And a sizeable portion of that medical error is due to poor device UX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XJbwN6EZ4I
This is a fantastic video that I'd never seen before (as a programmer who largely focuses on building user interfaces!) Thanks.
Agreed. The actual real cases start at 9:00 and its blatant.
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I don't think "age" is a valid cause of death. Old people are more likely to die than young people, but they still die from particular causes that should be distinguished and recorded.
For people of any age it's not obvious how to record a combination of circumstances or a cascade of conditions. For example, a very common fate for old people is to fall, break a hip ("neck of femur"), be admitted into hospital, and then die from pneumonia a week or so later. I think the bone breaks easily in old people often because of vitamin or calcium deficiency. In one case the fall was also indirectly caused by a preceding stroke, so the cause of death was ...?
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
> insurance companies don't want to work with them I'm not familiar with the peculiarities of the US healthcare system, but why wouldn't insurance companies work with off-brand medications? If it costs less it's good for them, no?
Medical insurer's profits are limited to a percentage of their gross income, so, more expensive medications and procedures are preferred to less expensive ones in order to preserve overall income.
Wow what a perverse incentive.