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by avalys 2y ago
What do you think is a reasonable way to do business in an industry where every patient feels very strongly that they should get the best and most expensive treatment available regardless of their ability to pay? Do you think insurance comp
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by avalys 2y ago
Does an oncologist "directly profit off of human misery"? Are cancer patients not miserable? Do oncologists work for free or for minimum wage?
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"It's a write-off Jerry, they just write it off!"
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> Healthcare should not be for-profit, full stop. Do you think doctors should work for free? Do you think doctors should work for minimum wage? Why are doctors entitled to "profit" from their work in healthcare, but a CEO who s
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by avalys 2y ago
Are the politicians not accountable for the decisions they make? Who has a greater moral accountability to the public - politicians or corporate CEOs?
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The guy who was killed, with annual compensation of $10M, is one of the richest and most powerful people in the country? There are FAANG ICs making more than that.
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This is such a great representative example in this debate.
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What role did the CEO who was killed play in that debate 15 years ago? Why are you still shifting blame from the politicians who created this system? They didn’t have to listen to the healthcare industry. They are accountable to the public.
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by avalys 2y ago
I think reducing healthcare costs in the US is an important problem with no right answers, and this sometimes involves denying care that people think they need.
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by avalys 2y ago
How much profit do you think they make, exactly? How much do you think they should be entitled to make? If the answer is zero, why would anyone invest in a company that can’t make money? If the answer is that healthcare should be run by the
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by avalys 2y ago
The CEO who was killed was paid about $0.20 per patient last year. Do you think those patients would have been better off with that $0.20 still in their pocket, and a less qualified CEO running the company?
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by avalys 2y ago
Do you dream of one day working on important problems and making hard decisions with no right answer?
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The people that should be blamed are the politicians that created this mess in the first place, not the people administering the broken system that they can’t change unilaterally.
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I guess "I work only on useless stuff that no one cares much about" is a valid response, sure.
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> Police revealed that finding the 26-year-old was a complete surprise, and that they did not have his name on a list of suspects prior to today. "I'd rather be lucky than good!" Impressive that they do seem to have found
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by avalys 2y ago
Is this a health insurance company or are you providing property insurance?
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How do you avoid losing money due to fraudulent claims, claims for services outside the scope of what you're insuring against, claims for ineffective resolutions to the claimed damages, etc.? Am I supposed to know what a "scale-up
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by avalys 2y ago
Without the black box, no one gets any medical treatment at all!
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1. Who decides what care is "needed"? Everyone is going to die eventually. I have a relative who believes they "need" ivermectin to prophylactically safeguard against contracting covid. Are insurance companies obligated
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by avalys 2y ago
So you are subject to a looser standard of ethics and morality since you didn't go into healthcare, but you are entitled to demand that the people who did go into healthcare practice a higher standard of ethics than you would hold your
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by avalys 2y ago
United Healthcare is a publicly-traded company which makes a 6% profit margin and pays a dividend, which means that those profits ultimately benefit people's retirement accounts, pensions and middle-class investments. The person who wa
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by avalys 2y ago
By this same logic, you are responsible for the death of every person who could have been saved by you donating all of your income beyond basic living expenses (your personal "profit", if you will) to pay for their medical care. Y
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by avalys 2y ago
Lancets? What is the exact market problem you are proposing affects lancets?
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How are they storing the key, I wonder?
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For what it’s worth - my comment was more about my frustration over what a useless article it was and how low our journalistic standards and expectations are that no one involved in writing or editing it bothered to ask the very obvious que
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[0] is kind of a useless article because it doesn't provide a graph and it doesn't provide per-capita statistics. If the US population has doubled since 1980, then it wouldn't be surprising that some population-level statisti
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by avalys 2y ago
It seems more likely that this guy / this company did something shady and is trying to claim "political persecution" to distract attention from his actual misdeeds, than that the FBI is actually persecuting him, on behalf of
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by avalys 2y ago
Huh? You will spend exactly as much time in the Robotaxi as you do in a vehicle you buy for yourself. If people are willing to pay extra for comfort and style already, why would they stop? I feel like so much of this discourse is dominated
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by avalys 2y ago
Hey Tesla, where's the Roadster 2 you announced in 2017 and took $50,000 deposits for? Oh, that's right, it was a stunt to boost the stock price, not a real product you intended to sell. Just like this.
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by avalys 2y ago
Nonsense. The major difference is that port operators would be free to choose a _different_ company if they were unhappy with the terms offered.

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