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Funny because I feel the opposite. Health care is so broken with all the politics, insurance, bureaucracy, financialization, etc that the vast majority of peopl

Funny because I feel the opposite. Health care is so broken with all the politics, insurance, bureaucracy, financialization, etc that the vast majority of people are not able to reap the rewards of progress. Even the science is perverted because of bad incentives and only potentially lucrative research is funded.

aprilthird2021 2y ago
I was about to say we pay for all this super modern progress by making healthcare so expensive it's out of reach of the vast majority of people in the world (and in the US).
- throwaway5959 2y ago
  https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-281.html https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-28... Over 92% of Americans have health insurance. The vast majority DO have access to healthcare.
  - cacois 2y ago
    I wouldn't say having some type of insurance == access to healthcare. The increase in deductibles and decrease in % coverage throughout the course of my career has been shocking.
  - kaba0 2y ago
    Until the “wrong” ambulance comes to your door.
wddkcs 2y ago
It couldn't exist otherwise. The privileged will always be the ones to push the boundaries of any endeavor, medicine included. Have hope that those rewards continue to work their way down, even though the process is long and arduous.
- KingMob 2y ago
  > It couldn't exist otherwise That's just a failure of imagination, no? Endless sci-fi stories tell us a better world is possible, including wild genetic treatments curing deafness. Why should that apply to tech, but not society?
  - wddkcs 2y ago
    Name one story where privilege doesn't flow from the top down. That's not a story, that's a fever dream.