I agree with this. (Not necessarily the rest of the thread.) Task-shifting can make the basics of medicine cheaper and more accessible.https://twitter.com/wolftivy/status/1128350889335332864 …
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I'd also say that the *biggest* way to cut health costs is through "decisive technology", the kind of medical innovation like vaccines or antibiotics that fully eradicates diseases. As Lewis Thomas notes, these are invariably cheap.https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2015/10/04/simple-upstream-and-decisive-a-heuristic-for-medical-progress/ …
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Which fraction of health costs in the US is administrative overhead? And does the admin regulate for minimizing liability or maximizing efficiency? It appears to me as if the system is (perhaps deliberately?) set up in ways that prevent efficiency gains.
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https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199308053290606 … 25% in hospitals, probably more in the system as a whole.
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