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xphos 11mo ago
You need downvotes for this kind of behavior haha. Maybe I need to be more important for that feature :) The parent thread is right though medicare for all would definitely be cheaper. Larger pool to spread the risk. But more importantly we make every N healthcare provider work with M insurence. NxM complexitiy is scaling the cost of healthcare. There are simplifications but the the M insurence providers are the producer of all complexity not the N healthcare providers so basically all that bueracractic overhead also kill costs. Arguablly that wasted bueracracy equals quite a few healthcare insurence employees which I think politically complicates M4A in a stupid way.
tomhow 11mo ago
WTF? We can't have you sneering at/about fellow community members like this, no matter how much (or little) karma they have. This comment breaks multiple guidelines, notably: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. Please don't post shallow dismissals... Someone doesn't get to 400k karma (almost double the second-ranked user) without contributing a lot of value to the community over a long time. It's fine to disagree with someone, of course. There'd be nothing to discuss otherwise. But we need you to engage with the substance of the comments you're replying to, and not sneeringliy attack somone's character or motivations like this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46119115 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46119115 and marked it off topic.
- tptacek 11mo ago
  I mean, you get to 400k karma by having a problem. But you're directionally right! I'm definitely not karma farming. I wish it was that intentional. ;)
  - tomhow 10mo ago
    ”Someone is wrong on the internet” can get you surprisingly far.
    - tptacek 10mo ago
      ISWYDT.

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xphos 11mo ago

You need downvotes for this kind of behavior haha. Maybe I need to be more important for that feature :) The parent thread is right though medicare for all would definitely be cheaper. Larger pool to spread the risk. But more importantly we make every N healthcare provider work with M insurence. NxM complexitiy is scaling the cost of healthcare. There are simplifications but the the M insurence providers are the producer of all complexity not the N healthcare providers so basically all that bueracractic overhead also kill costs. Arguablly that wasted bueracracy equals quite a few healthcare insurence employees which I think politically complicates M4A in a stupid way.

tomhow 11mo ago

WTF? We can't have you sneering at/about fellow community members like this, no matter how much (or little) karma they have. This comment breaks multiple guidelines, notably: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. Please don't post shallow dismissals... Someone doesn't get to 400k karma (almost double the second-ranked user) without contributing a lot of value to the community over a long time. It's fine to disagree with someone, of course. There'd be nothing to discuss otherwise. But we need you to engage with the substance of the comments you're replying to, and not sneeringliy attack somone's character or motivations like this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46119115 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46119115 and marked it off topic.

tptacek 11mo ago
I mean, you get to 400k karma by having a problem. But you're directionally right! I'm definitely not karma farming. I wish it was that intentional. ;)
- tomhow 10mo ago
  ”Someone is wrong on the internet” can get you surprisingly far.
  - tptacek 10mo ago
    ISWYDT.