have you ever asked a doctor or nurse (not dentist) what a procedure will cost before consenting to it?
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my hypothesis about this is that in the US the economics of health care are enormously distorted because it is taboo to ask about costs up front because this violates the sacredness of life, which we must pretend is not a question of money
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Replying to @chaosprime
sacredness of life seems pretty universal not just US - but there’s something there shielding medicine from being a true market
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Replying to @literalbanana @chaosprime
why allude to a mysterious "something"? we know with absolute certainty what the thing is: the insurer payment model.
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me, an idiot: "I bet I get sick" insurer, a genius: "I bet you don't, pay me $7000/year for counterparty risk premium"
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
does it also apply to other insured things? the level of fucked upness seems peculiar to medicine
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*nodnod* i'm poking around other things because i suspect there are yaks to be shaved here, insurance is obviously a bad model for the domain that has been driven by perverse incentives into greater heights of dysfunction, but i feel like there's a structure of factors
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