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Mostly agree. The point of my bringing up the Chinese story was to highlight how far medicine, and apparently only medicine, seems to diverge from common principles, and - expounding later - how this is coincident with its failures.

Something is up with healthcare, and I don't claim to know exactly what it is, or what the solutions would be.

Where I don't agree is your misinterpreting the analogy to self-serve. A cellphone that works as bad as cans on a string is analogous to the healthcare industry working as bad as accidents. No one should put up with either.

But with healthcare, we do.