How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater
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Re: How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater
#2I keep getting that feeling that something must be done.
Any suggestions HN readers?
Re: How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater
#3I keep getting that feeling that something must be done. Any suggestions HN readers?
Turn healthcare into a government bureaucracy. Because that's an effective way to combat waste, inefficiency, and overcharging
Re: How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater
#4I keep getting that feeling that something must be done. Any suggestions HN readers?
Turn healthcare into a government bureaucracy. Because that's an effective way to combat waste, inefficiency, and overcharging
at least all our patient data will be private. If we keep all of our private information in the hands of the HMOs and other corporations, the NSA might install a backdoor.
Re: How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater
#5I keep getting that feeling that something must be done. Any suggestions HN readers?
Turn healthcare into a government bureaucracy. Because that's an effective way to combat waste, inefficiency, and overcharging
Clearly, its a problem a free market will efficiently fix and prices will stay low.
Re: How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater
#6I keep getting that feeling that something must be done. Any suggestions HN readers?
Copy the health care system of any other rich country. They all get about the same results for half the price or less.
Re: How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater
#7I keep getting that feeling that something must be done. Any suggestions HN readers?
Copy the health care system of any other rich country. They all get about the same results for half the price or less.
We could kill about 9/10 of the population and get down to their size and ethnic homogeneity, as part of the copying process.
Re: How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Turn healthcare into a government bureaucracy. Because that's an effective way to combat waste, inefficiency, and overcharging
Clearly, its a problem a free market will efficiently fix and prices will stay low.
At least price transparency worked for surgeries in a hospital in Oklahoma: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6014794
Perhaps a similar approach could work for IVs.
Re: How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Copy the health care system of any other rich country. They all get about the same results for half the price or less.
We could kill about 9/10 of the population and get down to their size and ethnic homogeneity, as part of the copying process.
I'm not sure why the overall size of the population is relevant here. If it works for countries with populations of 5 million (Norway), 63 million (UK), 82 million (Germany), and 126 million (Japan), I think it's completely reasonable to at least try it in a country of 319 million.
Re: How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
We could kill about 9/10 of the population and get down to their size and ethnic homogeneity, as part of the copying process.
I'm not sure why the overall size of the population is relevant here. If it works for countries with populations of 5 million (Norway), 63 million (UK), 82 million (Germany), and 126 million (Japan), I think it's completely reasonable to at least try it in a country of 319 million.
Ethnic homogeneity is also an issue. If you think that an arab living in france gets the same quality of healthcare as a european french person at the same poverty level, you're kidding yourself. Not that the US doesn't have these problems. Ultimately, different ethnicities get different diseases, too, so the bureaucrats in charge of deciding what gets covered and to what extent are basically institutionalizing racial privilege.
However, naive grass-is-greenerism is more of what I was railing against.