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by mwerd 5y ago
Oh well in that case, you would have to have a totally different conversation about bundled payments. The price (chargemaster) that the hospital might list for all of the a-la-carte care you're provided is totally separate from how the
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by mwerd 5y ago
Can't speak to aspirin specifically, but I think generically you're pushing a false assumption. It is not easy for the rest of the health industry to provide stable pricing of drugs, especially for the types of rarer drugs that ar
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by mwerd 5y ago
They have the transparency to supplier costs but it's so variable and granular that it's not meaningful to discuss. Drugs in a clinical setting are priced on a per unit basis (which might be per mL), usually with a flat markup ove
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by mwerd 5y ago
Easy. Now try it at a rural critical access hospital for rattlesnake antivenom with a short shelf life, so it usually expires unused. They are required by law to stock it or they cannot have their emergency room open. Estimate the revenue g
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by mwerd 5y ago
Not trying to be rude but he already told you the answer. You really should look up 340b. It's a federal program to rebate drug costs for certain types of patients and is a legal form of price discrimination. When you provide a drug in
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by mwerd 5y ago
I logged in to post this exact suggestion. A couple of templates like [married home owners] and [single renter] that would jumpstart the process would be nice.
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by mwerd 5y ago
It would be easier for me if I could start with a template. Having a few buttons for representative simulations like "married high income" and "single FIRE" that you could then adjust to your scenario instead of starting
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by mwerd 6y ago
D.C.'s population has gone down since the 1950s and it still faces affordable housing and homeless issues. I don't think population growth or decline is a clear driver.
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by mwerd 6y ago
It was over 300 of miles from the white sands missile range. The plane had just flown over the western edge of Oklahoma, in the far northeast corner of new Mexico. It was closer to the air force academy in Colorado Springs than it was to wh
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by mwerd 7y ago
The financial accounting standards board updated their guidance in late 2018 to require calculating the present value of expected future SaaS agreement payments and adding that to the balance sheet, so it’s still CapEx in most cases.
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by mwerd 7y ago
Their net income swing is almost entirely attributable to a ~1 billion change in investment returns. Their operating income only fell 20%, because they had 8% increase in operating expenses without a commensurate increase in revenue. It&#x2
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by mwerd 8y ago
This won't help consumers. The prices (both charges and what Medicare pays) are already effectively public: https://data.cms.gov/Medicare-Physician-Supplier/Medicare-Pr... The problem, as some other comments point
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by mwerd 8y ago
>The SEC appreciates the assistance of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Options Regulatory Surveillance Authority. As Matt Levine at Bloomberg is fond of saying, if you don't want to get caught insider trading, do
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by mwerd 8y ago
No, the argument in the book is that upbringing matters through ~college graduation but the probability of success (which I think caplan roughly defines as the ability to support an average American family) reverts to genetic probability by
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by mwerd 9y ago
It's laid out pretty clearly in his annual budget posts that he doesn't need to do any of that to live. He and his wife simply like doing those things. That's a big difference and I think you're being disingenuous not to
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by mwerd 9y ago
It can be helpful to enlighten an ignorant person though. Take the bastardization of the word "literally", or even "peruse" if you want a less inflammatory example. If one person uses the word in its original meaning and
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by mwerd 9y ago
Seems a bit convenient to his point of view. Western democracy is much more strongly associated with Greek city-states like Athens and the ancient Greek leagues than Judeo-Christian theology.
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by mwerd 9y ago
Poor bats. They also get their lungs exploded by the pressure differences created near wind turbines: https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2016/09/27/wind-turbines-are...
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by mwerd 9y ago
SLC has worse air pollution than LA for the weeks it's inverted (approximately 6 weeks a year). Climate change is adding to the problem. http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=3799747&itype=CMSID
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by mwerd 9y ago
Automatic license plate readers + warrant database + notify law enforcement that their fugitive is traveling x direction at y time. Not so absurd as this already happens to some degree http://prospect.org/article/licens
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by mwerd 9y ago
Yes, if it was noteworthy or somehow remarkable and written to the standard of the NYT, I would. There was a fantastic piece that toed this line on This American Life not too long ago ( https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-
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by mwerd 9y ago
I dunno, I think it's pretty trivial to back into life expectancy and genetic risk factors from publicly available ancestry information combined with death certificates. We have ~200 years of pretty good records here in the US and many
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by mwerd 9y ago
Absolutely absurd argument. Do you use toll roads? They're a business. Criminals and even "child rapists" use them too. Can't believe you would further their ability to move about our society and evade law enforcement by
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by mwerd 9y ago
13F filings are at best deceptive for a fund like medallion. That is, for any fund that is not primarily a net long equity fund, a 13F filing shows only a small subset of their position. Medallion could hold any number of other positions in
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by mwerd 9y ago
It likely makes the scores higher on tests, though not necessarily because they've learned the material better. Anecdotally, I've seen recent immigrant children struggling to understand user interfaces (that I would argue were po
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by mwerd 11y ago
Journalists with a publicly verifiable track record who had a history of adversarial journalism. He chose them for their principles, not their charisma. It seems like you're grasping at straws here. How is an embedded contractor with h
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by mwerd 11y ago
I think part of the Sandra Bland story is the apparent escalation of the encounter BY the officer. Asking sarcastic, passive aggressive questions when you have the trust of the community and a gun at your waist is abusive. Its outrageous to
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by mwerd 11y ago
This is actually the case in at least one public example[1]. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in federal court in Philadelphia against Bonan Huang and Nan Huang, saying the analysts used the nonpubli
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by mwerd 11y ago
I don't think the SPLC is really in the same league as the ACLU. SPLC is entirely politically motivated. The SPLC is famous for their "hate group" list. The problem is, a hate group is whatever the SPLC says it is. Their crit
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by mwerd 12y ago
I've always heard this called mosaic theory, not trade secrets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_theory_%28investments%2...

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