Sarah Kliff had a nice follow-on piece in the Washington Post that elaborates on my chart and some possible explanations for why consumers are so much less cost conscious in health care.
There are so many parent-less children in the world that need to be taken care of, and so many childless couples out there that could help to change this.
So the less we know about something we care deeply about, the more likely we are to freak out about it.
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So this deal was far less about a vision of health care than about economic pragmatism.
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So the patient will try to avoid unnecessary care, and look for less expensive care and alternatives for what he does need.
So health care is likely to turn into a mess, and the less Republicans are implicated in the disaster the better for them.
The more they give away to help the poor, the less anybody else will care that the rich have so much money in the first place.
"What a wonderful thing to make health care so low in cost and so convenient that we consume more of it, not less, " Christensen says.
What I'm trying to do is figure out how do we bend the curve of costs so that we're getting more and more efficient care, higher-quality care, at less cost per person?
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So maybe the most significant failure of the Ryan budget is its omission of less sweeping health-care reforms that could lead to marginal improvements in the interim.
The Leicestershire study also found that, as nursing has become more high-tech, there is less physical contact with patients, so nurses are using massage to compensate and to demonstrate care for patients.
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