Fri March 22, 2019 6:50 pm
bune wrote:wtf is up with Maine? White wall or something?
Fri March 22, 2019 6:53 pm
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Fri March 22, 2019 7:55 pm
bune wrote:wtf is up with Maine? White wall or something?
Sat March 23, 2019 4:30 pm
bune wrote:wtf is up with Maine? White wall or something?
Tue March 26, 2019 12:12 am
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Mon April 15, 2019 7:10 am
bune wrote:
compared to insulin:
Mon April 15, 2019 12:27 pm
Mon April 15, 2019 1:24 pm
Green Habit wrote:I feel like I need to see healthcare costs split out between what didn't exist X number of years ago and what did to get a better understanding of it. The further back one goes, the more I speculate that healthcare was cheaper because fewer treatments existed, and life expectancy was shorter.
Mon April 15, 2019 1:35 pm
This seems fair, I just see way too many people chalk it up to entirely one or the other.McParadigm wrote:Green Habit wrote:I feel like I need to see healthcare costs split out between what didn't exist X number of years ago and what did to get a better understanding of it. The further back one goes, the more I speculate that healthcare was cheaper because fewer treatments existed, and life expectancy was shorter.
There’s certainly some significant cost involved in new technologies (an MRI machine costs $3 million to buy, $4 million to install/house, $100,000 a year to maintain, and can require on site salaried maintenance staff for larger hospitals).
Problem with this, though, is that US health care costs are anomalous among developed countries, but neither life expectancy nor range of treatments is better (or improving faster).