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Down similarly to literally every other age group and still up from 2014.
Please get off social media.
These aren't even hard numbers to find: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N
Good god.
Maybe grab those first, though.
Which says nothing about whether they ought to be, or whether our healthcare is better for having them. Needless imaging is a massive cost drain in the industry.
Let's please stop using healthcare examples when we don't understand healthcare.
But go off about guillotines and cold lunches or whatever.
It is still a market (and a single-payer one, ultimately) in these places, but it is not a government service. It is the best solution: the government funds the appropriate cost of care, the provider group is financially responsible for meeting it, and they are incentivized directly to get it right.
The left needs to stop shrieking about Medicare-for-all and the right needs to stop pretending like it can even spell healthcare. There are good solutions.
> but also encourages just refusing to treat people.
It categorically does not. It would be foolish to do so.
Value-based care, e.g. Medicare Advantage.
The idea is that the government gives you $X for the care of a patient, with multipliers on risk factors. The government's goal is for that to be basically exactly what care costs. The provider is incentivized to treat you for less. Which sounds perverse, but if they, for instance, deny all care, a patient will end up in the hospital and cost exponentially more than they would have through proper preventive care. It is not perfect, and it should be broader, but it is a strong optimizer for providing the right care to keep a patient healthy, without providing hundreds of unnecessary tests (and especially imaging) that are medically unnecessary.
It is absolutely a system that should be rolling out to more and more patients.
Do you think everyone with poor blood test indicators is aware of how unhealthy they are? How quickly they need to reverse course? Or do think there might be some possible validity to discussing your results with an actual doctor and understanding how acute your symptoms actually are? Do you think there are no side effects to statins and everyone should just be on one at all times, forever? Do you think there might be some value, for those patients, in discussing GLP-1s? Or nah, everyone can just like, go run 10 miles tomorrow because some 20 year old in SV said so?
I'm always deeply confused by people who think all medicine is "just repeat whatever ChatGPT said as if it's profound, like, duh - I'm smart and invincible and can't quite figure out that other people aren't me", in spite of them not knowing anything about medicine in the first place.
Amen. Prepare for a disaster tomorrow by planning for it today. The specific implementation might be mediocre, but we should be pushing for more, especially vis-a-vis pushing for anyone in the company who knowingly was involved in fraud to go to prison.
I need to know that you recognize the irony, here.
Just stop clicking things you're not interested in. It's a self-solving problem if you're not intentionally going out of your way to be a jerk about things for meaningless internet validation.
Perhaps some introspection would be more useful/valuable than the sneering bullshit.
1 - https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-tax-stats-at-a-...
It doesn't - author outright states his title and premise were complete clickbait.
Perhaps in some places. In a large number of US cities, it is remarkably easy.
> If you're looking in a suburb, exurb, it's 100% going to be an HOA.
This is just categorically nonsense. Have you ever bought a house? Have you ever looked at houses outside the 20mi surrounding wherever it is you've always lived?
Sorry, this reads like a typical teenager-on-Reddit comment - deeply convinced that you know everything about everything, everywhere because you overheard your parents talking about it at the dinner table.
What do you think "virtue signaling" means?
Did you read the article and understand the author's dislike, or did you just come here to whine that if I think AI is a bad choice in one context, I can never complain about it in any context? I assume you're aware that is a trivially silly and childish position.
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> Communism ruins everything.
The absolute irony here aside, when, specifically, was communism involved in anything in this country? When, specifically, did it "ruin" anything, let alone "everything"?
Surely you're not just repeating bumper stickers? Right?
Absolute, unadulterated nonsense.
> There's a cultural reason why "look how ignorant and stupid Americans are" has been staple Canadian comedy since the latter half of the 20th century.
It's been a staple of American comedy, too. Did you think this youtube clip was insightful or additive?
> Game of Thrones reminded us "the wolf does not concern himself with the opinion of sheep".
Ah, yes. That staple of actual, real, human geopolitics. Game of Thrones. Another brilliant analogy that has a lot to do with the real world. Clever and well thought out. Glad you shared.
That isn't, at all, what GP said, and the perpetual seeking of fake victimhood by y'all is so deeply boring and performative.
But hey, if 40% of people are dumber than the median, then I guess you've uncovered basic statistics. So that's something. Come on, give me a nice 'but what about' now - keep to the script. We all know nothing original or insightful is coming.
What, specifically, do you think this means? Do you think they're trying to install a new government without a vote?
Or is "disregard democracy" just word salad nonsense that you're repeating for some reason?
Similarly, at some point people should wonder what else might come out of a partnership aside from raw spending dollars and whether there is value there, instead of simply parroting stupid domestic bumper stickers as if they have value or add insight.
I guess you needed some validation today.