t0mpr1c3

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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
so there's this place called Europe
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Fraud Guarantee
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
It doesn't. You just don't understand the terminology.
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
One technique has nonzero bias and zero variance. Another technique has zero bias and nonzero variance. The title is misleading, but I guess "bias–variance tradeoff" was taken :/
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
Quoting from the paper you just cited: "Administrative costs have been estimated to represent 25% to 31% of total health care expenditures in the United States, a proportion twice that found in Canada and significantly greater than in
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
That's not accurate (in terms of obesity rates, USA ranks #18; Egypt is #17) and does not explain the lower life expectancy in the USA.
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My first child was born in the USA. My wife was lying on a gurney in a corridor for hours because all the operating rooms were full. By the time we got into the OR she was fully dilated and it was too late to get an epidural. It was complet
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
Enough sealioning. There are two charts. One is avoidable deaths. The other is treatable deaths. It doesn't matter which definition you use, USA is near the bottom of the table.
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
25 million Americans have no health insurance. Most rich nations would consider that unacceptable, and do something about it.
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
I've heard anecdotes. Diego Maradona. If it's anything like the regime Cuba is modeled on (Russia) treatment is good in the capital city where Prez lives, and non-existent in the regions.
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
That sounds about right, if you ignore disparity of access to treatment, and look narrowly at the quality of the treatment itself. 25 million Americans do not have health insurance. Looking just at treatable mortality (so not preventable de
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
25% is perhaps on the high side of estimates, but perfectly plausible. If you prefer citations from JAMA: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2785479
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
Yes, probably. There are plenty of comments here along the lines of "I have health insurance and lots of money, healthcare in the USA is fine".
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
Cuba has a totalitarian government that exercises total control over the media and does not allow independent validation of its healthcare statistics. But yes, based on the unverifiable numbers put out by the state media organs, healthcare
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
Incomes are sharply more unequal. Yes, tech professionals earn more in the USA. Plenty of people flip burgers or cut lawns, and 25 million or so can't afford health insurance. If you take any kind of look at disparities in health outco
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
If you look just at differences in treatment, ignoring preventable deaths, the disparity in mortality between the USA and other rich countries is just as evident. This is a long-standing fact. It's difficult to interpret without conclu
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The administrative overhead is not trivial: probably about 25%. Worse is the distortion of incentives for healthcare providers. The giant leaky insurance tit is there to be sucked on, creating corruption at every level. When you are billed
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
Mate, I don't know how long you have been here but you have another think coming. NHS services are free at the point of care. I worked in the NHS for a good few years. Never swiped anybody's credit card. In the USA, calling an amb
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
I forget who said it, but Obamacare is a Big Fucking Deal. The number of Americans with no health insurance dropped by more than 4 million between 2020 and 2024.
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
The problem we are discussing here is mortality, and statins definitely have an effect on mortality. Obesity can be prevented, can be treated, and its effects on health can be managed. We are actually living through something of a miracle i
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
Eagles fans riot when they win the super bowl (2022, 2025) and also when they lose the super bowl (2023). The issue is not that Americans are insufficiently violent.
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
What's new is that health insurance is about to become an even bigger problem. 24 million Americans are insured under ACA. The current president has issued several executive orders that undermine the provision of ACA insurance and incr
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
Healthcare insurance markets are fundamentally broken due to information asymmetry. The situation is aggravated in the USA by vertical consolidation among providers and regulatory failures. ( https://www.nber.org/papers/
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
> This is largely outside of the control of the medical system I assure you that preventative medicine does exist, even in the USA. Moreover, healthcare interventions for people with "lifestyle" diseases such as obesity have be
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
Correct. My comment is in reply to an assertion that is uninformative for exactly this reason.
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If you research "amenable", "avoidable", "preventable", and "treatable" mortality, you will find similar conclusions from studies that focus on specific aspects of the effects of healthcare on mortali
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Every country has for-profit elements in their healthcare system. The USA is uniquely dysfunctional in its governance. There is regulatory capture at every level.
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We're talking about the California state education system here. They do not have the option to restrict the provision of their services to a tiny elite. The concerns of "top schools" absorbs altogether too much oxygen.
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
True. COVID has set the entire cohort back, in terms of education but also every other aspect of personal development.
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by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
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