Libraries also function in this role, but for different types of problems.
What do you mean?
The ER has become a sanctuary for society’s unmet needs
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#12On the flip side.. as someone who pays their bills, the ER has become the #1 priority to avoid. I'd prefer not to pay 5000 or 6000 total - $3000 to a hospital and $3000 to an ER doctor agency for a small 2nd degree burn or small cut requiring stitches, or any other issue I may have been taken there in the past for. I'll sew my child up before I take them to a pediatric ER and I'll order the antibiotics from India or…
It is robber baron type stuff. It is absolutely nuts. I completely understand people escaping ambulances to avoid a $10K Aspirin. I avoid going to the US on the off chance that I might need medical care.
Somebody has to pay for all the "free" care.
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#13When you don't spend the time and money on preventative care as a society, you end up spending much, much more on emergency care. I feel like this has been quantitatively demonstrated again and again, but it's somehow still a political football.
> "I feel like this has been quantitatively demonstrated again and again, but it's somehow still a political football." I am aware of a number of studies which looked for a negative correlation between preventative care spending and overall healthcare spending, but all (of which I am aware) failed to find it.
Preventive care and good founding probably overshoots the point of very diminishing returns by alot so that should not be too suprising. Correlation is linear.
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#15When you don't spend the time and money on preventative care as a society, you end up spending much, much more on emergency care. I feel like this has been quantitatively demonstrated again and again, but it's somehow still a political football.
This is like telling a tech monopoly to make a better product when they could just charge hundreds per hour for support calls.
When you allow lobbying this is the kind of issue that becomes rampant.
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#16There's a tech debt analogy in here somewhere.
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#18The second arm of this system is using the police on the front line of psychiatric cases.
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#19When you don't spend the time and money on preventative care as a society, you end up spending much, much more on emergency care. I feel like this has been quantitatively demonstrated again and again, but it's somehow still a political football.
This mentality applies not just to health care but all sorts of infrastructure. There's money to build it but never money to maintain it.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is robber baron type stuff. It is absolutely nuts. I completely understand people escaping ambulances to avoid a $10K Aspirin. I avoid going to the US on the off chance that I might need medical care.
There's expensive insurance products for a short term trip. They'll even fly you back to wherever you're from if it's serious enough.
I do get the extra insurance, it’s still a major hassle I’d rather not deal with. Plus I don’t trust insurance companies who have a strong incentive to weasel out of their obligations. A commonly known strategy is Deny, Delay, Defend. You have to make sure you have enough money saved to hire a lawyer for when you need to sue the insurance company to get them to pay. Which is an extra hassle I’d rather not deal with.