Interesting. I was curious what a single-payer healthcare system like the NHS has in comparison. The NHS is good for this because it has generally good data ava

Interesting. I was curious what a single-payer healthcare system like the NHS has in comparison. The NHS is good for this because it has generally good data availability. Here’s the summary for autism: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/autism-statistics/october-2023-to-september-2024 https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/sta... Based on this, I think the truth is that most societies are going to struggle to care for these people. We face a problem with a workforce expanding too slowly and increasing rates of these mental conditions. We’re going to have to either ration care or let something else go. At this point, we have 1% of the federal budget dedicated to dialysis. Over time, I expect that we will allocate similar quantities of money to other chronic conditions that we have no means of escape from. Certainly some of the tools we use incentivize bad behavior (like the flat payment structure described in the article) but the fact that healthcare in another country is facing the squeeze indicates this isn’t the broad trend motivator. If we do not accept the reality of rationing care, we must accept the reality of letting go of something else: pensions, our ability to patrol foreign waters, incentivize businesses or so on. It’s an interesting thing. I would not have expected one of these things to have been a Precipice for our society.