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Even in a fully public, NHS-like system, they do. Come to X hospital, no need to go to [big city] for your [surgery] when you can have it here - well, if they d
by devilbunny 3y ago
Even in a fully public, NHS-like system, they do. Come to X hospital, no need to go to [big city] for your [surgery] when you can have it here - well, if they don't do this, people will go to the [big city], and if it goes on long enough, the NHS-like system will cut their funding and possibly reassign surgical specialists away due to lack of activity. That leaves the smaller city with less access to healthcare, even if it's free to the user at the point of service.
[EDIT: my karma is now 667. Would someone please remove their upvote just for a bit? A screenshot of "devilbunny (666)" from HN would be a great little digital memento.]
- shepherdjerred 3y agoHere's a downvote :)
- devilbunny 3y agoThanks, but two other people found something else I wrote worthy in the meantime. Urgh. I mean, I could lose points easily, the hard part is only losing one or two, not forty. Um, emacs and vi are both pretty useful editors and there's really no big difference when you get used to one of them? I mostly like pico for editing? [karma whirring up and down could power a small city]
- jerven 3y agoJust use the browser dev tools to change it to what ever you want. And then take the screenshot.
- devilbunny 3y agoCheating. And I'm actually not a developer, so I had to look up how to open dev tools.
- rqtwteye 3y agoThe only marketing a hospital should do is by publishing quality metrics and cost. That’s all patients need to know.
- devilbunny 3y agoWhile outcomes will be better, each interaction will be more painful. Taking your parent to an appointment need not take a full day, but if it is two hours’ travel each way….