Re:I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to
by creakingstairs on Thursday July 07, 2022 @07:01AM
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I’d argue that the underlying system that makes the regulation in US is broken. So you aren’t going to end up with many good regulations without changing the system. Which looks nigh impossible until some black swan event.
Re:I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to
by throwaway0a5e on Thursday July 07, 2022 @09:37AM
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>But in reality, good regulation is good, and bad regulation is bad.
No one brick in the road to hell is bad. But you can definitely pave a road to hell with the accumulation of "positive" changes. People tend to define positive over too short a timeline or too narrowly.
Re:I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to
by ClumsyPilot on Thursday July 07, 2022 @03:25PM
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No one square meter of nature is bad. But you can definitely doom people to horribly die because there is a natural swamp between them and the hospital. People tend to define 'natural' too narrowly, forgetting that 'things that are natural' includes cocaine, tapeworms, rape, birth defects, the Plague and cancer
Re:I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to
by throwaway0a5e on Thursday July 07, 2022 @03:40PM
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Are you implying that individual regulations all have some inherent goodness on their own?
They're just rules we make for ourselves. There's nothing special about them. Opinions like that are why we can't fix messes like this.
Re:I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to
by nopenopenopeno on Thursday July 07, 2022 @03:45AM
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It sounds silly because it is silly. Interested parties prioritize various policies with varying degrees of priority.
But in reality, good regulation is good, and bad regulation is bad.
It sounds silly written out because it's a tautology, but if more people internalized it we could have much more productive conversations. Instead of going back and forth on whether regulation is good or bad, we should try to figure out which regulations are good and which are bad, and then try to get rid of the bad ones and pass more of the good ones.