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What do you mean by left leaning areas?
Probably they mean most cities, look at the voting statistics in various somewhat recent elections. If you don't buy the left/right dem/repub mapping, you can look at the various stances of the actual local officials elected.
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People are rarely satisfied with this answer but its demonstrably true and was proven time and time again at the facilities ClearHealth managed. 1) Feverent, almost religious, adherence to hand washing. 2) No neck ties or dangly sleves whatsoever in buildings that house patients. 3) Change from stainless steel hardware for doors and travel touch surfaces back to "brass/copper". Those are simple, virtually free, thing…
> Those are simple, virtually free, things that have a very meaningful impact on outcomes. Some of the most viscous fights I've had with hospital boards were over what amounted to the "uglier look" of copper/brass. Am I the only one who finds copper/brass much more aesthetically pleasing than plain and boring stainless steel?
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Not people who live in dense cities with good subway systems and a walkable infrastructure. Driving is one of the most dangerous things humans do. The argument that all health care should be private– the perspective this comment addressed– would not make such a consolation simply because it's common.
> Not people who live in dense cities with good subway systems and a walkable infrastructure. Yeah, so almost everyone. > Driving is one of the most dangerous things humans do. The argument that all health care should be private– the perspective this comment addressed– would not make such a consolation simply because it's common. Car deaths are about 1% of deaths. Heart disease and cancer are each around 15x as likel…
CDC: Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death in the U.S.1, with over 100 people dying every day. 2 More than 2.5 million drivers and passengers were treated in emergency departments as the result of being injured in motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2015.1 The economic impact is also notable: for crashes that occurred in 2017, the cost of medical care and productivity losses associated with occupant injuries and deaths from motor vehicle traffic crashes exceeded $75 Billion."
American Society of Civil Engineers infrastructure report card says only 45% of the US population has no access to public transit.
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No, they're worried that single-payer would increase healthcare costs and/or decrease quality. They might be wrong, but that's not why they'd be worried.
There's a large web of insurance companies, hardware and chemical companies, provider networks, and universities that benefit too greatly from the current inefficiencies to ever move away from private insurance. Hardware and chemical companies like LifeSys have contracts with insurance companies and provider networks that state the insurance will only pay for things if the tests or treatment are done with that suppli…
Just picking this point out - how can lobbying stop something? As in it's worth too much lobby money to politicians to change it?
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... what in the blue hell...?
I got a little excited, that's all I can say about the flow. But there is an undercurrent of betrayal, there absolutely is, undermining everything, only visible if you get trapped in it, if not it looks like a meaningless whoopsie.
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> Not people who live in dense cities with good subway systems and a walkable infrastructure. Yeah, so almost everyone. > Driving is one of the most dangerous things humans do. The argument that all health care should be private– the perspective this comment addressed– would not make such a consolation simply because it's common. Car deaths are about 1% of deaths. Heart disease and cancer are each around 15x as likel…
The US is a big place but most people live in cities. Few car accidents are fatal. CDC: Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death in the U.S.1, with over 100 people dying every day. 2 More than 2.5 million drivers and passengers were treated in emergency departments as the result of being injured in motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2015.1 The economic impact is also notable: for crashes that occurred in 2017…
Motor vehicle crashes are slightly outside the top ten causes of death. Those 100+ deaths are coming out of about 9300 total deaths.
> The economic impact is also notable: for crashes that occurred in 2017, the cost of medical care and productivity losses associated with occupant injuries and deaths from motor vehicle traffic crashes exceeded $75 Billion.
Productivity losses are outside the scope of medical costs, but even if we include those dollars that's $75B out of $4100B in health care spending.
So I stand by my statement that it's a pretty small impact.
> American Society of Civil Engineers infrastructure report card says only 45% of the US population has no access to public transit.
And most of the other 55% still need cars.
You said "good subway systems and a walkable infrastructure" and that's what I responded to. We can go ahead and remove the word "subway", but the fraction of people with access to good public transit systems is pretty small.
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???? NASA brought us SpaceX and other competitive private space companies... can't blame them when Obama got rid of the budget for these wasteful things then they had to back peddle because of politics ... "jobs" lost in all those states... basically a socialist program for those workers to have a job. "Over the he past 50 years they have held back any economical progress in access to space." without NASA there would…
You don't know that.
USA Healthcare is 19.5% of GDP. Canada + Australia + UK + (a few similar countries) average 10.5% of GDP. The USA healthcare price gouges via run away prices. Healthcare corporations corrupting congress is the fuel that forces this on people (and breaks a free market).
My current assumption is that private healthcare/insurance is to blame, because countries without that or with less generally have better outcomes at less cost. Looking for evidence to the contrary