Re:Walmart Gets Into Health Care
by bhupy on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @08:41PM
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Excellent point.
Medical care can be difficult to compare, but is that necessarily true across ALL medical care? There exists a high degree of fungibility in most preventive care: routine treatments like annual physicals, bloodwork, antibiotic prescription, flu shots, diagnostic imaging, etc.
The next question is: is there the same degree of fungibility for more major care, like tonsillectomies and appendectomies? Perhaps brain surgery and oncology is less fungible — but they are also perfect candidates for insurance coverage since they're catastrophic.
Re:Walmart Gets Into Health Care
by cdspub on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @10:47PM
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Same is true for food. I also wonder how affinity analysis can be applied to medical care. And - can the question of market vs government allocation be analyzed using "baskets"?
Medical care can be difficult to compare, but is that necessarily true across ALL medical care? There exists a high degree of fungibility in most preventive care: routine treatments like annual physicals, bloodwork, antibiotic prescription, flu shots, diagnostic imaging, etc.
The next question is: is there the same degree of fungibility for more major care, like tonsillectomies and appendectomies? Perhaps brain surgery and oncology is less fungible — but they are also perfect candidates for insurance coverage since they're catastrophic.