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Fam_Fam posted...

people don't know a good watch from a bad one, who knows what goes into it? you just get told a rolex is good. who can tell you why its worth thousands more than a $50 seiko watch? and what difference do those differences make?

I'm not sure what your point is. I've watched I, Pencil, dude. I'm not saying that consumers need to be experts on the supply chain management required, the exact specific technical details of the product, etc.

I'm saying that if the goal of health care is to improve health outcomes, we have good reasons to doubt that would happen because of pressure from consumers for better health care.

Watches are status symbols. The point of them is to look good or signal something about yourself. Not comparable at all.

So like I asked before, what's an actually good comparison?

Fam_Fam posted...

Same thing with computers. many, many people don't know shit about the quality of the parts in there. they just see bigger numbers and think things are better. can they tell you why? and what the bigger number actually means?

No, and we have tons of inefficiencies in computer technology because of it. Qwerty is inferior to Dvorak and we use it just because we use it and always have. Is that the kind of medical system you'd like? When we treated health care that way we were using leeches and bleeding people and people paid for it because something was better than nothing.
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