Post-apocalyptic life in American health care

Re:Post-apocalyptic life in American health care by EvanAnderson on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @03:52PM (#16055502)

More and more I am becoming convinced "killing people" is an intended "feature" rather than a bug. I'm sure it's not an explicit goal of any but a tiny fraction of participants in the "system", but, cynically, I am becoming convinced it is somebody's goal.

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Re:Post-apocalyptic life in American health care by jfoutz on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @03:56PM (#16055544)

I don't think it's on purpose. It's decomposing a monolith down to microservices, without any verification. Since each player is only responsible for their little corner of the world, no one actually has any sort of responsibility to ensure the overall system still works.

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Re:Post-apocalyptic life in American health care by faitswulff on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @04:34PM (#16055932)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

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Re:Post-apocalyptic life in American health care by dolson on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @05:19PM (#16056349)

Emergent behaviour.

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Re:Post-apocalyptic life in American health care by i_feel_great on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:35PM (#16056959)

I feel it is due to its complexity. The complexity is caused by rent seeking behaviour. I see shades of it here in Clay Shirky's essay: http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex...

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Re:Post-apocalyptic life in American health care by xkcd-sucks on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @11:42PM (#16058465)

Well yeah, if something bad happens one can complain about it or figure out how to profit from it

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