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He's right about giant corporations becoming stifling to innovation, but I disagree about Norway. There is no reason why Americans should need to pay over twic
by mncolinlee 16y ago
He's right about giant corporations becoming stifling to innovation, but I disagree about Norway. There is no reason why Americans should need to pay over twice as much per capita to provide the same barely adequate health care for their employees!
Startups are even more vulnerable to high monthly startup costs than they are to lack of financing. You can get by on credit cards working out of your garage, but not if you rent a large unit in an office park and not if you need to shell out hundreds per month per employee for health insurance.
Right now, college students are creating most startups. That's not only because they know the newest technology. They have no responsibility to pay for or protect a family. The single greatest innovation that would prompt the formation of more mid-career American startups would be any reform that takes the cost of health insurance off of corporate balance sheets. It seems most likely that would be some kind of "Medicare-for-All" system, though other innovations may be possible.
- mncolinlee 16y agoBy "barely adequate" health care, I mean that we should focus much more on nutrition and lifestyle and less on drugs and prosthetic organs. It doesn't matter how many surgical robots a country has if we make food choices that amount to poisoning ourselves and lifestyle choices like we're trying to turn ourselves into veal. Forcing people to pay cash on the barrel-head for health care won't improve that because humans make emotional, not rational decisions.
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