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I worked on the tech-side of healthcare informatics with researchers and healthcare economists. What you say is correct. The cost/benefit ratio of hospital admi
by RIDDLERTHIS 6y ago
I worked on the tech-side of healthcare informatics with researchers and healthcare economists. What you say is correct. The cost/benefit ratio of hospital admittance and hospital stays has been quantified to an alarming degree. Not that we shouldn't be looking at such costs, but I feel as though it should involve some level of humanity.
The other, often overlooked angle of healthcare in the U.S. is the dynamic at play between for-profit and non-profit hospitals. Both of which require and actively seek profit of course.
As others have stated - we need a complete overhaul of the healthcare system here. Something that would require a Teddy Roosevelt-esque stature of a man (or woman) to get started.
- bitdizzy 6y agoIt won't be a great person who saves us.
- Judgmentality 6y agoCan you elaborate?
- jollofricepeas 6y agoPoliticians are often not great especially Teddy Roosevelt - a war-mongering, braggard focused on making a name for the himself and furthering the ‘forward race’. Change if it comes at all will come by... 1. a populist demagogue with unchecked power 2. Or when the market wills it more than likely via technological disruption of some kind Things must get worse before they get better as with all major advancements in human history.
- cercatrova 6y agoLooks like you're saying that they won't be good (a moral quality), not that they won't be great (a performance measurement); Alexander was Great, as well as the Great Khan Genghis, shaping the world as we know it, yet neither were good.
- ShroudedNight 6y agoThese are not the only ways society changes for the better. Every once in a while you get someone like Tommy Douglas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Douglas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Douglas
- Tarsul 6y agowow, great guy. For those not clicking: responsible for single-payer health care in Saskatchewan (60s); voted greatest Canadian 20 years after his death. And Kiefer Sutherland is his grandson, yeah ;)
- jollofricepeas 6y agoSo what you’re saying is that we need more Baptist preachers in politics? ;)
- bitdizzy 6y agoChange comes from a great many people acting for it.