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by tptacek 44 days ago
That's not an argument; it's just vibes. Whenever we get actual numbers to look at, your arguments fall apart.

Again, I want to be clear: I'm not here to defend the American health system. It's a disaster. It's just clear to me you don't have a bead on why that is. (The answer is artificial scarcity of practitioners, overprescription, and lack of price transparency).
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ceejayoz 44 days ago
> That's not an argument; it's just vibes.

So is “insurance doesn’t have any externalities that might hide in my very broadly categorized numbers”.

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tptacek 44 days ago
Non-falsifiable argument is non-falsifiable. I could literally present you evidence that 2.2T of our medical expenditure is due to a price-fixing ring in syringes, and you'd still be able to use the same argument.
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