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If we were able to socialize healthcare to a greater degree, we could regulate it on a regional basis as we do with districts for education. The same way we pro
by orky56 11y ago
If we were able to socialize healthcare to a greater degree, we could regulate it on a regional basis as we do with districts for education. The same way we provide standard curricula to teachers and administration & then evaluate/incentivize them based on the performance of their students, there must be a similar method we could use for health and wellness.
We have superintendents responsible for arbitrary school districts, post offices for zip codes, etc. If we had a public health official or body in charge of a region, they would be responsible for the health of their constituency. They could administer the right combination of food & drugs to ensure that wellness was being achieved.
At the end of the day, we know CO2 is something that affects everyone so it needs to be regulated. We are at the point where public health & preventive epidemics such as childhood obesity do affect everyone and society at some level, even just due to the interconnected nature of the cost of insurance, drugs, and various externalities.
- wisty 11y agoThere's problems with top-down incentives, if they aren't well thought-out - http://highered.blogspot.hk/2009/01/well-intentioned-commissar.html http://highered.blogspot.hk/2009/01/well-intentioned-commiss... Optimisation can be a literal genie, even when it's humans doing the optimising.