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Re: Why YC went to DC

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Post by Auracle »

gbacon wrote: post #367
lol768 wrote: post #341

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Radical suggestion (maybe I'm too British): health insurance not being tied to employment or work whatsoever?

Here’s a radical suggestion: stop calling welfare-for-doctors insurance. If you want insurance, those are known as major-medical policies under which the sniffle visits are still the patient’s responsibility — just like how insured car owners pay for their own oil changes. With “health” “insurance,” neither side has price sensitivity. Patients ask whether it’s covered and if so, back the truck up to get as much as po…

Ding ding ding. You could fix our pricing woes practically overnight if everyone was put on a (very) high deductible plan.

Re: Why YC went to DC

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Post by willhslade »

dghlsakjg wrote: post #375
robertlagrant wrote: post #258

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> If you want the proof of it, remember that a huge majority of Canadians live close enough to drive to the US for health care, but don't I don't understand this point. Obviously Canada offers healthcare, and what it offers is no doubt good. That doesn't mean that it offers everything that can possibly be done. People just won't be aware of what can be done, and/or don't have US health insurance to pay for what can b…

My point is that one of the arguments against universal healthcare in the States that gets trotted out is that Canadians have waits so long or that the healthcare is so restricted that they are dying or that they can't get care. If people were actually having to wait that long that their health was seriously threatened, they would likely be engaging in medical tourism on a much bigger scale. If you needed surgery or…

I mean, normal Canadians also likely can't afford the cost of American surgery. And I can think of at least 1 time a prominent Canadian went to the USA for medical procedures that weren't available in Canada.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/william...

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2016-08-...

Might be worth a quick Google before posting.

Re: Why YC went to DC

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Post by biztos »

Mumps wrote: post #316
biztos wrote: post #289

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For us, the application process was a big help in getting focus and better defining what we propose to build. And not getting in has led us to find some other, potentially much better programs which we will apply to. We don’t regret the effort at all. My only complaint is that keeping everyone hanging on until May 29, ready to clear our plates in June, and then giving absolutely zero feedback for the rejection, was t…

Out of curiosity, would you mind sharing some of those potentially better programs? I've also been trying to compile a thourough list, but the options don't seem better (in fact, all are plan B..Z) e.g. Entrepreneur First ( especially their EU and UK offering), Founders Factory, Haatch, Seqouia Surge, ...

PearX is probably more selective than YC but at least if you're in the SF area, seems to be more of a real accelerator. (And not just for "get more money before demo day.")

https://pear.vc/

AI Grant investment is probably going to give you way better access and actual tangible assistance:

https://aigrant.com/

There are others but these are the things that really stood out. We will go directly to investors too, hopefully someone in our network sees the potential and is willing to throw us some pre-seed to get it started.

I don't think the YC Standard Deal is bad, and I might try again next time, but there are things about the program that I think are not worth the time/money, and I'm not at all sure "access to their network" is any better than (even as good as) the same access from a different set of VCs.

Re: Why YC went to DC

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Post by bowsamic »

temp20240604 wrote: post #376
bowsamic wrote: post #354

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Yes it does, just purely logically

I took the “them” to mean the 50000 in which case it doesn’t. If it is the 500 and the 50000 are not all “AI related” then that tells us something.

Yeah I took it to mean that the specific 500 they chose of the 50,000 are AI related and that the 50,000 may or may not be

Re: Why YC went to DC

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Post by robertlagrant »

dghlsakjg wrote: post #375
robertlagrant wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you want the proof of it, remember that a huge majority of Canadians live close enough to drive to the US for health care, but don't I don't understand this point. Obviously Canada offers healthcare, and what it offers is no doubt good. That doesn't mean that it offers everything that can possibly be done. People just won't be aware of what can be done, and/or don't have US health insurance to pay for what can b…

My point is that one of the arguments against universal healthcare in the States that gets trotted out is that Canadians have waits so long or that the healthcare is so restricted that they are dying or that they can't get care. If people were actually having to wait that long that their health was seriously threatened, they would likely be engaging in medical tourism on a much bigger scale. If you needed surgery or…

> despite the alternative being a quick drive away

What does this mean? It's not free as long as you can drive to it.

Re: Why YC went to DC

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Post by eru »

siliconc0w wrote: post #9

If you need more things to fix: * Software R&D Amortization - taxes on make-believe profits * Patent law - protect small businesses from patent trolls * Automate government-driven compliance standards - enable small businesses to sell into large companies/government entities, automatic certification when using pre-approved cloud solutions. * Healthcare insurance - employees of SMBs automatically get access to medicar…

> * Healthcare insurance - employees of SMBs automatically get access to medicare

Perhaps better decouple healthcare insurance from employment status? (Perhaps remove the tax dodge where companies can buy health insurance cheaper than individuals can?)

Re: Why YC went to DC

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Post by CalChris »

rayiner wrote: post #244
luma wrote: post #101

Why should healthcare be tied to employment? "Quit fucking around" and institute a national, single-payer plan that covers everyone, like every other modern industrialized country.

Most developed countries don’t have single payer healthcare. Obamacare is actually modeled on the system used in the Netherlands. And why is “national” a criteria? California doesn’t get single payer unless Montana also gets it? Neither Californians nor Montanans want that. It’s just political games.

No, Obamacare was modeled after the Heritage Foundation market based proposal, Assuring Affordable Health Care for All Americans, which was trialed in Massachusetts by Mitt Romney.

https://www.heritage.org/social-security/report/assuring-aff...

Re: Why YC went to DC

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Post by rayiner »

CalChris wrote: post #388
rayiner wrote: post #244

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Most developed countries don’t have single payer healthcare. Obamacare is actually modeled on the system used in the Netherlands. And why is “national” a criteria? California doesn’t get single payer unless Montana also gets it? Neither Californians nor Montanans want that. It’s just political games.

No, Obamacare was modeled after the Heritage Foundation market based proposal, Assuring Affordable Health Care for All Americans , which was trialed in Massachusetts by Mitt Romney. https://www.heritage.org/social-security/report/assuring-aff...

That’s more of a political talking point than a fact: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2016/02/15/where-di...

But you’ve got a point, it’s probably fairer to say that the ACA and the Dutch and Swiss systems are all modeled on common ideas regarding managed competition: https://jacobin.com/2016/02/gaffney-single-payer-sanders-hea... (“The 2006 Dutch reforms were based in part on a school of health policy thought associated with the US economist Alain Enthoven, a man who got his start analyzing military strategy for the Pentagon before becoming the foremost proponent of competing private-sector health plans (so-called ‘managed competition’). Outside the Netherlands, Enthoven’s ideas have influenced health reform efforts in both his home country — first under Bill Clinton, then President Obama.”)

Re: Why YC went to DC

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Post by esbranson »

zer00eyz wrote: post #82

> And finally, we need more steps like the FTC’s recent move to ban all employee noncompetes (no carve outs, no limitations, no exceptions). YOU need to be out there beating the drum for a major exception to this. With out laws to ban raiding (and we dont have those on the federal level) this is a bad policy. It means that google doesn't have to aquire-hire your team, they can just poach all of them wholesale. > Seco…

> With out laws to ban raiding … this is a bad policy.

"At will" employment explicitly allows raiding.

"If you liked it then you should have put a ring on it." (IOW otherwise use an employment contract.)

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