Healthcare is driving America's economy(www.ft.com)
16 pointsby kamikazeturtles5 hours ago3 comments
  • alphawhisky4 hours ago
    "Technology adoption will be a huge part of managing the cost curve"

    Just tell people they're getting robot nurses before single payer healthcare.

    • jazz9k3 hours ago
      The problem we have now is that there is no accountability in spending. Insurance companies over-charge for everything.

      Single-payer just exchanges the insurance companies, for the government. There's still no accountability on cost and there's the added bonus of turning you down for life-saving care, if they feel you don't need it (there are many examples of this in the UK).

      • muwtyhg3 hours ago
        > there's the added bonus of turning you down for life-saving care

        Can insurance companies not already do this?

  • lowbloodsugar2 hours ago
    Because there’s nothing else. We don’t make anything. We produce value. All that’s left is to harvest the wealth of boomers. America is trying to stay alive by drinking its own piss.
    • ViktorRay2 hours ago
      Bruh what are you even talking about? Trying to save the lives of old people is not about harvesting wealth. What the hell?
      • kgwxdan hour ago
        Trying to save the lives of old people is not what the healthcare industry does.
      • nobodyandproudan hour ago
        Not the OP but I get it. We don’t produce anymore.

        What we do is produce ideas, then sell the idea to a few wealthy groups; which has lead to a very distorted economy.

        It’s also no secret that “wealth extraction” has been an ongoing best practice for the past decade or two by those in this circle, and the financiers are eyeing ways to get to the retirement accounts legally.

        We already see this with cryptocurrency “normalizing” as investments and SpaceX bundling itself with questionable AI companies pre-IPO (index fund manipulation).