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Topic	what would happen if hospitals competed like other businesses
Fam_Fam 11/20/18 12:15:07 PM #45:	Balrog0 posted... 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. our system now is horribly inefficient, and costs are ridiculous for what you get. Health care is basically a luxury nowadays. And yes, there will always be shitty doctors, even in the current system, but we have ways of relaying that information, and reading up on techniques that people are using. it's not a complete crapshoot. and i'm saying we SHOULDN'T do things the way we always do them, we should change them so that people aren't buying into a shit system that is built for profit of insurance companies. they don't have patient quality of life high in their priority lists. it's all about money for them. and we should put a stop to that. <cite>Fam_Fam posted [p:912738811] in what would... [t:77221079]...</cite> <quote><cite>Balrog0 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Fam_Fam posted...</cite> <quote>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?</quote> 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? <cite>Fam_Fam posted...</cite> <quote>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?</quote> 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.</quote> our system now is horribly inefficient, and costs are ridiculous for what you get. Health care is basically a luxury nowadays. And yes, there will always be shitty doctors, even in the current system, but we have ways of relaying that information, and reading up on techniques that people are using. it's not a complete crapshoot. and i'm saying we SHOULDN'T do things the way we always do them, we should change them so that people aren't buying into a shit system that is built for profit of insurance companies. they don't have patient quality of life high in their priority lists. it's all about money for them. and we should put a stop to that.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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