“We take it back,” Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, two of America’s most prominent health economists, declare in a new book, We’ve Got You Covered, their blueprint for reforming our health care system. After years of preaching “the gospel” that “patients must pay something for their care,” they’ve now abandoned the message.
Instead they propose tax-funded “basic” health coverage—without copayments, deductibles, or other forms of “cost-sharing”—for all Americans. Almost simultaneously, three other leading health economists—Katherine Baicker, the provost of the University of Chicago, who served on George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, and Amitabh Chandra and Mark Shepard of Harvard—outlined a similar proposal in the Journal of Economic Perspectives. This may signal an encouraging shift in elite opinion, at least among economists, in the debate over health care reform.
Copays and deductibles do more harm than good for most healthcare
Duh, copays and deductibles = less people going to the doctor for preventative care = more people sucking up more resources and money by seeking care reactively, often when things are too far gone and costs skyrocket. If we encourage more people to seek preventative care by not making it cost a fortune, we save a ton collectively in the long run.
I took a panoramic so you can hopefully get an idea. We are in the middle of painting.so please excuse the mess and the ladder. When done, it’s all going to be the color of the dining room.
The room is gigantic. No picture can capture the real size of this room. The fireplace is weirdly placed… You want a room with no good place for a TV, this is it. We don’t watch during the day. We can’t.
You could try the corner to the left of the fireplace. That’s what I tried to talk my wife into, arguing that it makes it easier to orient furniture around than having the TV and fireplace on perpendicular walls, which basically mandates an L-shaped couch
But given the doorway next to your TV I don’t think it would work, because I’d probably butt the couch up against that wall. Tough one
Aren’t these organs vastly different in size? I think people sometimes have spleens removed, but I don’t think liver ever gets removed except maybe transplant. I guess I should probably read the article.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, the typical human spleen is roughly the size of an avocado, and the typical human liver is roughly the size of a football.
Sounds like a major screw up, but it’s a legal complaint, so it’s supposed to. Still, apparently not a good set of facts for the dr/hospital. However, when something sounds crazy there’s often at least a partial explanation.
Got this setup in the corner of my bedroom. Don’t think it’s too high since the bed is higher than a couch. Also glad there ended up being enough room for desk and monitor since that didn’t come until the pandemic.
“Shaknovsky had made a similar mistake in 2023, removing portions of a pancreas instead of an adrenal gland, in a case that was settled privately, Zarzaur said.”
A big recommendation for “the checklist manifesto”
Author is a surgeon whos whole thing is the power of simple lists of really important stuff
Like
“Check you have the right patient”
“Check you have the right body part”
I’m going to piss off TVTOOHIGH but I’m going with above the fireplace. It’s not the primary entertainment spot so I’m going get a Samsung Frame tv so it’s not just a blank tv.
Down with the haters and the tv location cult. I’ll post a pic in 3 month when it’s done so you can laugh at my decision.
