US Healthcare Costs
Discussions focus on the high and rising costs of healthcare in the US, debates over causes like mismanagement, for-profit models, cost disease, and comparisons to other countries or sectors.
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You forgot about healthcare costs.
How is quick, consistent, low-cost health care a bad thing?
Human healthcare is pretty affordable when it's not absurdly misinsentivized and mismanaged.
People get good quality healthcare and spend less doing it?
It's not so much about the quality of healthcare as it is the price.
Healthcare costs grow faster than inflation, which is unsustainable.
Healthcare isn't expensive enough?
> besides for healthcareIgnoring people's actual health in exchange for more expensive things seems like a backwards metric.
Now seems like a good time to bring up Considerations on Cost Disease!https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...
Why is that so rarely mentioned in discussions of high healthcare costs in the US? It seems like it could explain everything!