The Case for Degrowth

Re:The Case for Degrowth by WalterBright on Thursday August 11, 2022 @03:16AM (#32422506)

The American health care system before the 1960s. And also:

"How American Health Care Killed My Father"

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-ame...

compares the free market section of the health care system with the rest of it.

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Re:The Case for Degrowth by selfhoster11 on Thursday August 11, 2022 @05:55AM (#32423543)

OK, but... the 1960s were literally 60 years ago. The world looks very different, and so does healthcare. Is it really comparable?

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Re:The Case for Degrowth by WalterBright on Thursday August 11, 2022 @01:26PM (#32429054)

Is economics different from the 1960s?

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Re:The Case for Degrowth by selfhoster11 on Friday August 12, 2022 @07:40AM (#32436997)

I was alluding to the progress in medical tech, and the corresponding rise in the cost of specialised medical equipment. While we developed fancy tools like accurate MRI machines that let us treat patients better, they also cost more to buy. My intuition tells me that in the 1960s, treating people was cheaper because we just didn't have any machinery to spend more money on.

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Re:The Case for Degrowth by WalterBright on Friday August 12, 2022 @09:57AM (#32438712)

Read the article, where Lasik surgery got cheaper and cheaper while MRIs got more and more expensive.

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