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Tue Oct 17 03:15:33 UTC 2017
More "Basic Economics".
Falling behind the planned pages-per-day. Hopefully I'll catch up on some flights starting this Sunday.
In any cases, "Basic Enconomics" has brought up a common argument against socialized medicine in this chapter (Chapter 4: An Overview of Prices). Well, two common arguments:
- Socialized medicine ends up more expensive
- Socialized medicine has longer wait times
For 1, to be fair, he says "more expensive than anticipated", instead of "overall more expensive for society". That's just a nature of doing things, it's almost always more expensive than anticipated. Things are complicated.
But, as it stands, the United States spends more on healthcare than any other nation. I'llneed to refind my sources, and also make sure those sources aren't playing with numbers to get to this conclusion, I also will need to see how the US fared pre-ACA, but considering the fact that the ACA was super pushed for, I wouldn't be surprised that healthcare spending was spiraling out-of-control before its inception.
As for 2, I will also need to refind my sources, but as far as I can tell it simply isn't true. Wait times vary for the large variety of different kinds of medicine appointments from country-to-country with generally little correlation with that country's method of paying for healthcare.
Further, many of the studies that measure "wait times" measure from the setting of the appointment to its proper execution. These studies simple do not count people who need medical care but can not set an appointment due to cost. Those people's wait times are essentially inifite.
But, again, this is something I'll need to refind sources on, properly vet those sources, and maybe even make a more formal bit of writing for my argument there.
In any case, still this book only ever mentions the government mucking up the economy. I wonder if it'll ever mention other forces breaking the economy. My understanding of this book as libertarian propaganda makes me think it will not.
Note: I still find a lot of the arguments and concepts within these books well written and valid. It's just clearly missing additional details necessary for rounded economic thinking, I think. My lack of rounded economic education may make that assertion unfounded, however.
There are lots of solid things to quote that I agree with in this chapter, is what I'm trying to say. I'm just not going to because I went on a tangent and am out of time for today. If future me does more with this book's writing, and uses my notes here as future reference, make sure to point out that the writing on "systemic" vs "individual" causes are really greate (and the logic therein could be applied to a great many things).
Tue Oct 17 03:31:11 UTC 2017
Time to walk home.