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>There are countries with private healthcare that works

list them?
I’m here to make a buck for myself, not help the organization raise shareholder value.
I definitely know about gron. I maintain the Chocolatey package[1] for it for all us Windows slobs.

[1] https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/gron
With the bike shortage the last two seasons, used bikes in OK condition can be almost more expensive than a new bike (since the new, unused bike is sold out everywhere).

At least where I live, there is no chance to get what I would call a usable/durable bike for "$100-200" at the moment.
Absolutely. If the NHS and National Insurance weren't already invented I'm positive they would never be implemented today. I mean can you imagine someone like Clem Atlee in power today?
And in some cases it involves NHS facilities too. There are definitely some questionable aspects of our public/private healthcare. But again, this isn't always how it works, and the ethics involved are also complicated.
Here are a number of metrics that have improved since the ACA.

- percent uninsured decreased

- number of people skipping treatment for cost reasons decreased

- number of people with "pre-existing conditions" covered increased

- satisfaction with coverage increased

- growth of healthcare costs slowed

Not to mention other provisions that are broadly popular such as children being allowed to stay on their parents health insurance through the age of 26 and mandates that require all plans to cover basic services.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/chart-book-accomplishme...
Just out of curiosity, which normal countries do you have experience with in this regard?
In 2018, age 31 I emigrated from the UK to the USA. I'd spent my entire life under the NHS and taken it for granted.

In Jan 21 my first child arrived, 8 weeks early. This led to a lengthy 49 day NICU stay spread across two hospitals. Ask me to put a price on the work those doctors did to save my families lives (8hrs in the OR and both nearly died several times) and I'd give you all I could.

In the end, the bills we've received so far exceed $350k. For the joy and relief that they both made it out the otherside healthy, it's worth every penny. And this speaks to perhaps why Americans rationalise exorbitant healthcare costs - because we're tied up in the emotion of it all.

I'm lucky to work for a company who provide a high deductible plan which means my max annual out of pocket cost is $6k. On the face of it, $6k sounds like a lot - but the level of care we received far exceeded anything I've ever experienced in the NHS. Private rooms, appointments with my GP without doing the 8am phone purgatory British Drs surgeries require, world class NICU care at a world renowned facility (Chapel Hill).

But we must also factor in that in the UK I pay for healthcare whether I use it or not via taxes. Indeed my take home in the UK was about 15-20% less than here after the government had taken their share. However here, I have the choice to contribute to my HSA up to $7,200 annually. In the end, I feel like I end up paying about the same despite the high sticker price.

But the key difference is that in the UK model I look after my neighbour without any choice in the matter. Whereas here, it speaks to the underlying American pysche of individualism.

My conclusion is that as an individual, with a good tech job, the system works - for me. But there is a nagging sense of guilt about how the experience I've had is not available to all. A bit like the suburban sprawl discussion I fear that this way of doing things is so deeply ingrained in so many people that they can't even imagine changing the system to work better for all for fear of what might come to pass.

I'm very happy in the US on a day to day level, but it truly is a very weird place. Simultaneously a forward looking tech hub, leading the way in the world in many ways. And yet, it's an incredible backwards, self-preserving, individualistic society where dramatic social change is probably impossible.
There is old joke that if you use metric when announcing a 50mm tsunami, half of Americans will run for the hills. "~20cm" could mean half a foot or 20 hundred meters depending on how much you remember from highschool. Many agencies have policies on how and where metric should be used in public announcements.
You have not refuted the OPs point. We become so used to the impacts that we've grown up with that they tend to become invisible. Cue the pearl clutching and hysterics when something new comes along.
It's analogous because the existence of tests have absolutely nothing to do with the question at all.
If you search, you’ll find plenty of people willing to sell you some “FSI” courses for hundreds of dollars. Is there an official source for FSI courses?
I am not proposing this for a democratic society, but for a message board. The goal of a message board could be to be democratic, or it could be to fulfill the idea of the guy paying to keep it running.

I assumed the latter, because those places tend to be places worth sticking around, and because this is definitely where HN falls in.
I'm not going to argue hypotheticals,, but even a decimated NHS is far better than the US system.
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If you can, try to make the video louder. I really had to crank up the volume to listen to it. (Probably use a combination of normalize and compress in Audacity.)

Cool hack!
Isn't this the same as issuing a patent listing a microscope as inventor?
No, it's 100% true. Flu deaths are just data. You can't argue with data. You're engaging in excuse-making to try to rule out the most obvious hypothesis for the enormous drop in deaths. You can't deny that it happened.

And while such excuses do exist, they don't represent consensus opinions anywhere. Those who believe them are essentially 1:1 with those who want to believe that covid "is only as bad as the flu", which is provably false.
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I actually agree with him, it's a perfect analogy.
it has been repeatedly shown that deanonymized healthcare data is not hard to reconstruct. HIPAA defines a series of identifiers that have to be scrubbed, but it's not enough to prevent reidentification by a motivated adversary.
Not exactly the same photo, but yes – same face!
What if you want to start a business and have no significant other? Do American entrepreneurs bet that they won't fall sick before they strike gold?
I have this shortcut for converting alphabets and numbers to bold. Mainly use it to format book titles for reviews I post on twitter.

a2b ()
{
ip_expr="$@";
if [[ $# -eq 0 || $1 = '-' ]]; then
read -r ip_expr;
fi;
echo "$ip_expr" | perl -Mopen=locale -Mutf8 -pe 'tr/a-zA-Z0-9/𝗮-𝘇𝗔-𝗭𝟬-𝟵/'
}

Didn't know about `unifont` and `unisupers` mentioned in the post, will check them out.
Also worth adding is that most of those uninsured are present in the country illegally. For comparison, UK’s NHS does not offer free services beyond primary care to those unlawfully present either, and I think this is true of most other public healthcare systems around the world.
We're a long way off from Star Trek's Data / "Measure of a Man" scenario, when the AI can fight for itself.
Yeah, unfortunately, these days SO is relatively good for shallow questions but mostly terrible for niche questions when you're already at an advanced level on the topic. Often enough you get several inquiries about your use case from people at or maybe even below your level who can't really answer the niche question, you waste time explaining irrelevant details and fending off skepticism, and end up leaving without an answer.
You're right. The notion of "if they believe in the company so much why are they selling?" implied to me that it was unexpected for people to be selling their shares.

That is what I meant by "surprised", though in hindsight my choice of wording was poor.
Google thinks I calculated all of pi by hand [video]
Ok, so if the robot commits war crimes, who is responsible?

The designer? The soldier who turned it on? The general who deployed a couple thousand to the urban center before they had the “bug”
"For me it was not a decision."

To my eyes, this kind of mindlessness, being encouraged on a vast scale, is more dangerous than any virus.

You really think its cool to take a new medical procedure without thinking?

"How sweet to be an idiot."
The Bureaucratic Failure Mode Pattern (2014)
freedom isn't free! /s
Cool, have fun then!

I think I first played them at the age of 7 or 8.

I bet the dramatization-translations must be the trick :) It's like an animated story book.
I think so, too, but it won’t happen unless we continue to push for it.

The US is now exporting significant amounts of coal to China, whose demand is increasing.
You can put sudo in an alias!? [mindblown.gif]
Argh, I hate that type of error...
It is a great way to control the AI. Patents should be mandatory for them. If they file for "Mass extinction of human species devices" we will reveal their plans just in time!
Why do American people think it's the 'government' that will be providing the healthcare?

To me, the NHS in the UK is run by the NHS (chiefs, trusts, executives, etc). It's funded and meddled with by the government. But it outlives each successive government.

You'll hear far more positive stories than negative ones if you ask any one in the UK.

My kid spent a week in infant ICU. Cost to me zero. Total cost of pregnancy zero. Time thinking about the cost until now zero.

Money and healthcare are two exclusive concepts to the average British person. If we thought more about cost and healthcare maybe people would be willing to pay more tax for it. But they think it's free.
First Bill was $2.5M and the article is here
https://kingsley.sh/posts/2021/staggering-cost-of-surviving-...
$500k NI on $60m in rev, not exactly a killing.

I think what many people here are missing is that these private insurance patients are subsidizing the indigent, Medicare, and Medicaid patients
What do you propose to do with `anti-vax nutjobs`? They won't listen to you after reading the comment, which you try to completely dismiss and dehumanize them.
That $300 per month you're paying for the whole family - does it include employer's contribution?

From my experience, a decent insurance for the family is somewhere in $20k-ish range per year, which is closer to 10% of your income.

This lines up with 10% UK National Health Services charges HM's subjects.

It will not have a similar level of quality though, forget it. The lines will get longer and the definition of "medically necessary" will become way more frugal.

And for your income level it probably won't cost you less. Neither for mine. Nor for that of many HN users. But it will solve SO MANY annoying problems for so many people at once that I still think it's justified.

First, losing job does will not mean you're losing your medical coverage. You probably have not lost a job for a prolonged period of time. Neither did I. But the fact that it might potentially happen gives me uneasy feeling. If (when?) I lose my job, medical insurance will be the single biggest charge on my account, probably more than all other stuff combined.

Second, all these infamous cases when someone with insurance was admitted into the hospital, but then it suddenly turned out some junior aide to the senior anesthesiologist is out of network, therefore the insurance won't pay him. This doesn't happen often enough for most people to start pestering their congressmen, but it nevertheless happens.

Third, it will make the gap between salaried employees and contractors smaller. There are a lot of talks about whether such-and-such is actually not a contractor, but a salaried employee. And usually it all drills down to the benefits the person receives. One of the ways of solving this problem is making the benefits the same for contractors and for the employees. While it will not close the gap completely, it will make it more palatable.

Fourth, those willing to get a higher level of service will be able to buy private insurance. In countries with national healthcare private medical insurance is cheap - may be 10% of what we're paying now.

I can keep going. The trick is that none of these cases on its own is big enough to affect the majority of population, but combined I'm sure each of us will eventually be hit by one of them.
There was still the risk of doing the research without having an outcome, or an issue in manufacturing causing them to not meet demand.
How much do you think gets taken out of your paycheck before you get it in country's with universal healthcare? And that happens even if you don't use it.

And who the hell has an 8k deductible?

This choice isn't 8k deductible or "free" healthcare. That's a farce.
If you care at all about users who depend on screen-reader software, don't do this.
> My instinct is that you're not including the cost of the fuel

The docs seemed pretty clear that they were the operating costs of the installation. I had to find the install cost and the operating costs separately.

> Doesn't this logic cut both ways? If wind energy was so expensive, then no one would be building wind farms.

That's a good point, but there is also an enormous amount of pressure to go carbon free and these power companies answer to several regulatory bodies all with enormous power of their operations. It's not unreasonable to believe there are requirements to move to wind for continued licensing.
Original title includes "How" at the start.

You have time, if you edit the submission you can correct the title and re-insert it.
When I’m looking for reviews of a product I usually type XXX review Reddit to avoid the XXX top 10 list blog spam that google returns. I don’t want a review from someone who just jumbled together a top 10 list without ever looking at the product in person.
And you think the blame is on the ones denying "climate change"? Not the industry/farm owners and the consumerism of most people on earth? Why on earth a family has 2 cars? A person has 50 t-shirts? Many cellphones, tablets and gadgets that get replaced every 1 to 2 years?
Depends on who you ask. Before Obamacare if your employer didn't pick a great insurance plan and you got seriously sick the insurance could cut you off after you hit a lifetime maximum and then future policies wouldn't cover that specific condition because it was considered pre-existing.

This happened to my parents in the 90s and we went through multiple lifetime maximums and had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of 10 years.

Obamacare is great for making health insurance actually act like insurance.
I know someone whose condition rapidly deteriorated while receiving treatment in a private hospital and when things were looking really bad they got transferred to an NHS hospital.
The Google background check (along with other employers) verify your claimed credentials (sadly people like about phds). The folks doing it aren't particularly capable, though, I've had to correct errors they made in my check (basic stuff like working at a company for two distinct time periods).
People can quit their job, and then meet their needs using their savings (if they have any), or welfare. The same is not true for health insurance.
I’ve been wondering for a while. What tools were used to compose PC beeper music? Was there some sort of DAW or toolkit, or was the music all hard coded as a text file?
>> You have a baseline and studies have shown it seldom changes much over your life.

> Not all that long ago the very same thing could be said about a wide variety of things that we now take for granted/baseline, like basic competency in reading, writing, and arithmetic as one example. Unlike those things, thinking to a certain degree of competency is innate in human beings

You seem to be conflating openness to persuasion as a component of personality, and openness as a learnable mental skill.

It isn't inconsistent to assert that being open to persuasion is in fact both.
BTW, if you want to compare the Monkey Island title music for all platforms the game was ported to (and some it wasn't ported to, looking at you C64), take a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DydmYhaL7zw

For me, the Amiga version brings back the fondest memories - 4 channels of glorious 8-bit sampled sound! Unfortunately two of those channels were hardwired to the left speaker and two to the right speaker, so listening with headphones is not so great, but still...
indeed. Think how far airlines would get if they said:

" Sorry! We can't give you a quote. We don't know if you will use the on-flight entertainment on the flight, or if you will end up clogging the toilet midflight, or if you will eat 4 bags of pretzels. There's also the chance we will have to make an unscheduled stop due to weather. That is why we can only bill you once we arrive at your destination"
Of course we're more than just that, but if we agree on the definition of tool to be "an object that can extend an individual's ability to modify features of the surrounding environment" (lifted from wikipedia) then wouldn't you agree that humans are being used on a daily basis exactly this way?
Many American's don't however since they hear the bad stories but are perfectly happy with the care they get under their insurance. Which was the question asked and not "which health system is objectively better."
That spam level on search engines is increasing year on year, is a fact.
It’s also a fact the Google keeps rolling out several updates but the overall quality is getting worse no matter what.
The vaccine has an overwhelming amount of data showing it's effective, and very little showing side effects. At some point it's a national responsibility to get it. If you don't, then there's nothing that says you should have a job at faang.
Part of the point of GNU was to be a fresh implementation with no copyright dependency on Unix.
Yeah it comes in the base distribution https://github.com/jarun/nnn/blob/master/plugins/autojump

But - if you're happy with ranger, i'm not sure it's worth the switch - they're very similar. nnn is quite a bit faster than ranger but other than that, i think ranger has more community support.
Worth noting that Hawking won't have got special treatment because of who he was.
Because mental funds are non-fungible. Amortising health costs through progressive income tax helps a) keep overall costs down, as the state centrally organises the health system / collectively negotiates with providers and b) is more fair. It doesn't feel like you're being utterly screwed through no fault of your own - e.g.: medical bill after an accident or violent attack. Instead society at large acknowledges two things a) we all need medical care and b) our need is largely disconnected from our capacity to pay.
The simplest answer: the Senate overweights rural voters, who in turn hate government spending and big government. Until the Senate is representative of the US population, we will never have sweeping programs like this. Even if the Senate is fixed, the supreme court could likely strike down any legislation that's too progressive, since it's now 6-3 conservative lean due to the Senate and McConnells robbery of the Garland spot. It's a messed up system, sigh.
I find these super quick note taking tools incredibly handy. I love dillinger.io but I always find myself using docs.new because I can create a note within a second

Feature request: a keyboard shortcut to save or "create", because I'm lazy and scrolling down and clicking create is just too much :)
If the Health Care system HAS to be a feudal system I would much rather be tied to the government than a job that can fire me at any time for any reason or one I have to stick to if anything serious happens.
You also pay for Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, health care exchange subsidies and lots more through your general taxes. This comes to $1.5 Trillion in Federal health care spending per year, or 8% of GDP funded by your taxes.

It turns out 8% of GDP is almost exactly what the UK spends on health care in total, including public and private spending. So your taxes to the federal government are paying about the same proportionately that we are for health care here in the UK, and you are also paying thousands of dollars a year for private health care on top. There's no way to spin this, you are getting utterly and completely shafted.

As it happens I also get private health care through my employer in the UK, but it only costs me £380 per year because the vast majority of my health care needs are met by the NHS promptly and to an excellent standard. The private top-up care only matters in truly exceptional situations, and even then it's mainly about comfort and maybe bypassing a queue for non-urgent care. Bearing in mind all the care I and my family have received over the years, and the zero stress I have ever had about affording it, I pay my taxes to the NHS with a happy heart.
I would suggest instead of viewing AI as the creator, it should be viewed as a tool, and the person/team who built the AI as the true creators.
More likely to be the opposite. It would be very easy to explore prior art through tons of databases. On the other hand, AI has been touted for years to be on the verge of revolutionizing case law and this has yet to happen.
The US has safety nets as well, they're just not as generous as the UK's.
Do you happen to know how one would be billed for this if they didn't have insurance?
We always try to give utilitarian reason for animals doing what they do. I have a simpler explanation, the goose was playing. Having fun in the wind of the storm.
what's your ldap? I'd like to share it with some of my friends.
> How much do you think gets taken out of your paycheck before you get it in country's with universal healthcare?

Less. https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm has a chart of all OECD healthcare spending, both public and private. The US clearly stands out at the end. Employer-provided healthcare "gets taken out of your paycheck" all the same, just less visibly. This is a significant part of the political problem in the US; the true costs are hidden.

> And who the hell has an 8k deductible?

Most folks on an ACA Bronze plan.

https://news.ehealthinsurance.com/insights-blog/lower-premiu...

"For a family of four, average Bronze plan deductibles are rising by 3% (from $13,017 to $13,394), while the average maximum out-of-pocket limit is increasing 4% (from $14,916 to $15,462)."
If you have to actually compare the files on both ends, however, that's still many more round trips than necessary for zfs send, which is just sending all blocks with a birth time after the previous snapshot
France, Belgium operate like this.

Although in Belgium I've found out that you can still have unexpected costs because for some reason, only one type of procedure per day can be reimbursed. Which means if you have a problem that takes two (or more) ultrasound scans to be diagnosed, only one of those will get reimbursed and you'll have to pay for the others.

This happened to us with our kid, first hospital did a scan, concluded that we should go to the children's hospital close by for better treatment, the doctor there did a scan there the same day to see for himself (at 23:30! half an hour later and it would have been reimbursed) and of course this one had to be paid for. Which is beyond stupid IMO. Well at least it wasn't US-level prices.
They can't get health insurance on healthcare.gov?
NSW cops call in army to help enforce strict lockdown on Sydneysiders
Wow, I’ll say. That’s 1 CPM per pageload :D
"In normal countries there is A price list"

I've never even heard of such a thing in the UK NHS - i guess some kind of cost accounting must occur but I don't think it goes anywhere near patients or care givers.
You don’t need to explain this. Everyone knows how “socialized medicine” works.

What they are saying is that it was zero out-of-pocket as opposed to a quarter of a million dollar bill.