It's almost as if the market was the correct mechanism for making sure healthcare costs were reasonable... huh. who would have thought? 😂
https://blog.nateliason.com/p/crowdhealth
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hello
My take away on this piece:
- healthcare prices in usa are insane
- high cholesterol is not a health condition.
I wish this existed for non us citizens
💯 The cause of high prices was never the market itself. It was the distortion of that market by incentivizing both employers and employees with tax-exemptions so employers could offer cheaper than otherwise available healthcare insurance as part of their employees' compensation - effectively removing the agency of the individual employees from the healthcare insurance market.
One-size-fits-all plans, obscured healthcare pricing, etc. (and thus, ever-escalating prices) are all downstream from this lack of individual agency in the market.
Or socialized healthcare. Whatever the US has done has created the most bizarre, convoluted, offensively unethical monstrosity of "health care" that could only be conceived by the bastardization of corrupt politicians, lobbyists, and (regulated) capitalism.