It's silly that believing more government intervention will solve the problem, given that a big reason healthcare became tied to employment in the first place was wage freezes by the government, from which employer sponsored health insurance was exempt.
We're not going to solve it by constraining the supply of healthcare by regulating every aspect of it, and then subsidizing the demand.
It’s not constraining care. It’s a single payer system. Think of there being one insurance company.
This isn’t theoretical. Medicare already has been supporting the most frequent users of the system for decades. It’s a proven system with low overheads.
Yes there’s probably abuse but overall it has high satisfaction from its stakeholders.
I'm talking about the regulatory capture of everything related to health care: medications, credentialing, insurance, etc.
Any regulation imposed on the production of a good or provision of a service is a constraint on the supply. Reducing supply increases costs. I fail to see how the imposition of one insurance company (a monopoly) would improve that.
When Medicare was created, medical care accounted for less than 7% of GDP. It's around 20% now[1]. If you extrapolate life expectancy from before Medicare to now, has that massive increase in spending changed the trajectory at all?
You see the same phenomenon in higher education: we subsidize demand through government-backed loans, and costs and administrative overhead skyrockets.
you mean artificially colored canola soy extrusions, with an unspecified (i.e. very small) quantity of chemically replicated salmon cells? how about counterfeit biohazard salmon?
I had PRK 15 years ago. I also woke up multiple times last night because my eyes felt like they had a bad sunburn (eyes so dry they stick to your eyelids + REM sleep.)
Some unsolicited advice: wait for widespread adoption, and review data on long term side effects from sources without a conflict of interest before you have a procedure like this. I went from 20/150 to 20/15 for a few years (which was pretty cool) but they're 20/40 now so I wear glasses/contacts when I leave the house anyway. Glasses and/or contacts aren't that bad.
If it makes you feel better, your dry eye is more likely caused by genetics than it is PRK. Many people end up with dry eye without having had any kind of laser eye surgery. I highly recommend putting some Hylo-Night / VitA-POS gel in just before bed. It lasts well into the next day.
Yeah it's probably a combination, which might explain why my experience isn't the norm. Ever since I had it done, any poke, foreign objects like sand, etc. is much more painful than before, so the pain from dryness gets amplified. I've used eye drops and gels, but the most effective thing is just avoiding things that mess with electrolyte levels, like alcohol, medications, and certain foods.
Having worked across startups and international consulting companies, usually there is a direct correlation between org size and use of cheaper less skilled offshoring development teams.
I don't know anyone since I don't live in the US, but statistics[1] show that gun ownership among democrats is at 20% compared to 45% among republicans. It's substantially lower but still in the same order of magnitude.
