Anyone who is honest and knows how insurance works knows that single-payer healthcare is the only way healthcare can remain affordable.
This pandemic will change how we think about certain things imo. As a society we're providing 85 year olds with the best healthcare possible, as long as they are rich. Unfortunately 85 year olds are going to die anyway and they will die soon. You're just prolonging the inevitable. As harsh as it sounds a lot of money that is spent on old people, who will die soon whether or not you cure whatever current illness they have, should be spent on young people.
But for some reason young people vote like they don't matter, and then they don't matter.
And yes, single-payer makes absolute sense. You make several insurance companies duplicate the roles of claims handlers then throw in the litigators between them to assign liability, and no wonder why America has the most expensive health care in the world for a declining average lifespan.
"Could be" = more fake news
This fake crap is rampant now... much as described here:
https://stratechery.com/2020/defining-information/
Where do you see the travel industry heading in the next 5, 10 years after this pandemic is over (hopefully)?
Great question. Travel always seems to rebound no matter what. Then you always get the next class of young people that has no clue and will step into an active mine field for the 'gram.
We already were seeing the likes of Thailand debating whether they wanted fewer tourists but better ones who spent more. (Kind of a slight to China, really.)
There are going to be the entitled 10% who still want to fly everywhere. They will have to pay for it though. The lower demand and stalled economics will likely mean we will pay more for flights, because of undersupply plus other factors, but we might pay less for hotels and lodging because of oversupply.
I would expect discount travelers to stick to domestic travel for a while -- it's going to be a bit before they want to, or can afford to, go international en masse as they had done prior. I mean, I once paid £29 for a flight from Lisbon to London on RyanAir last year... that is just so economically wrong on so many levels. They're going to be less able to afford to go anywhere and will stick to home while a wealthier class will pay more for the same.
It will be transitional, though, as long as the pressures of growth economics are still in place.
And this illustrates the entire issue with for-profit, privatized health care. The rules and very nature of it place the health and well-being of the nation’s citizenry far down the list of priorities.
No private insurer wants to be held liable for overall public health because they cannot control it themselves. They will want it to keep their expenses down, but they need someone else to foot most of the bill.
I read somewhere that people deal with disasters the same way they deal with grief: in 5 stages. Y'all gotta get out of this anger stage.
Agreed. The whole lets-get-China thing is stunted in that anger stage, needing someone to blame.
But then I ate a chateaubriand in London in the middle of the mad cow scare in February 2001, so what do I know?
There's only one basic rule everyone should adhere to and we'd be far better of as a society if we did: be a decent fucking human being.
I second that. The rest is about dealing with non-compliance.
I know, but a lot of folks actually believe that it is, or even having a natural disaster.
The economy was broken and everyone was too afraid to make bold moves. There was something about this that made it all superfragile and it needed a crisis to break out of its death loops and outdated principles.
There is a lot of data coming in that supports the use of masks and gloves to limit the spread. I think plane, bus and train travelers should be forced to use masks to board.
I think the data coming is data. I have yet to see a reasonable assessment of the risks to warrant one way or the other. Scientific proof is about testing the null hypothesis ... proving that it's not ineffective. I don't see anywhere that burden of proof has been met yet. People want to feel like they can have a little more personal control of their lives, so they want to do something -- buy toilet paper, wear a mask, etc. It's more psychological comfort than physical until proven otherwise.
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@swag 's response so he doesn't have to.
Yeah, I am no fan of wet markets. But we are collectively responsible for the crap we are in. Finger-pointing just shirks the responsibility and disowns the need to change from a factory farm food supply, inhumane conditions of animals, monoculture crops where all of society is balanced on a knife's edge over a handful of controlled food sources, etc.