Re: David Cross on Health Care

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Karl <[email protected]> wrote:
> " And since some of us don't want to be deprived of *anything*, no matter how
> expensive it is, others do without even the basics."
>
> How do you mean this?

I mean there appears to be *no* cost/benefit analysis. So we have
*very* expensive procedures being done that have mixed benefit but
which raise all prices for the rest of us.

**ah.  So this wasn’t addressed from a sense of class necessarily?


No one wants to play "lifeboat" and say that it's not worth doing
such-and-so for a person with only a couple months to live, but we
make value judgments by default when doing everything for everyone
raises prices and makes stuff like neonatal care too expensive for
some families.

**well, I don’t necessarily think that in all cases the two are connected.

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