Healthcare is driving America's economy

(ft.com)

20 points | by kamikazeturtles 21 hours ago ago

8 comments

  • kamikazeturtles 21 hours ago ago
  • alphawhisky 20 hours ago ago

    "Technology adoption will be a huge part of managing the cost curve"

    Just tell people they're getting robot nurses before single payer healthcare.

    • jazz9k 19 hours ago ago

      The problem we have now is that there is no accountability in spending. Insurance companies over-charge for everything.

      Single-payer just exchanges the insurance companies, for the government. There's still no accountability on cost and there's the added bonus of turning you down for life-saving care, if they feel you don't need it (there are many examples of this in the UK).

      • muwtyhg 19 hours ago ago

        > there's the added bonus of turning you down for life-saving care

        Can insurance companies not already do this?

  • lowbloodsugar 18 hours ago ago

    Because there’s nothing else. We don’t make anything. We produce value. All that’s left is to harvest the wealth of boomers. America is trying to stay alive by drinking its own piss.

    • ViktorRay 18 hours ago ago

      Bruh what are you even talking about? Trying to save the lives of old people is not about harvesting wealth. What the hell?

      • nobodyandproud 17 hours ago ago

        Not the OP but I get it. We don’t produce anymore.

        What we do is produce ideas, then sell the idea to a few wealthy groups; which has lead to a very distorted economy.

        It’s also no secret that “wealth extraction” has been an ongoing best practice for the past decade or two by those in this circle, and the financiers are eyeing ways to get to the retirement accounts legally.

        We already see this with cryptocurrency “normalizing” as investments and SpaceX bundling itself with questionable AI companies pre-IPO (index fund manipulation).

      • kgwxd 17 hours ago ago

        Trying to save the lives of old people is not what the healthcare industry does.