If you are a cell in a human body, do you want to live in Body 1 or Body 2?

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Feb 19 32 Comments

Let's say if you are a cell, and you can choose one body to live in:

Body 1: you work for the body, and if you have any health issue, the body will try to save you the best it can. It will try its best and of course won't charge you. If the body cannot, then too bad, but it has tried its best.

Body 2: it will charge you all that it can. The body will ask, "what is in it for me? Why do I have to do that?". There is a way you "pay" every day, like an insurance so that the body can look at all the rules as to whether to save you or whether you are "covered" when anything happens. And of course, because what the body charges you at that point, you won't complain because you don't have to pay for it, the body may charge you 3 times or 5 times than needed. And the insurance just increase its monthly fees to go along with it -- the more it gets, the better profits it gets. (that's what the doctor told me. He said "you think the medication $85 is expensive? That's because there is insurance. Without the insurance system, it should be only $20, but with the insurance system, it is $85").

So will you choose to live in Body 1 or Body 2?

I feel:
Body 1 is like Canada or Taiwan.
Body 2 is like the US.

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  • Wow it’s almost like making profit the reason behind public goods is bad for society
    Feb 19 8
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      @oompaoompa it is a bit difficult to follow what you are saying. Can you be more specific and concrete. The writing style you have tend to be general and abstract
      Feb 19
    • What about my writing is abstract and difficult to follow?

      The idea is that among developed countries with comparable average incomes American medical and pharma prices are an outlier. And yes there are places in the world that have cheaper medical prices because they are adjusted for a realistic level in accordance to individual ability to afford it.

      But we should be comparing American medical prices to the first type of place, and in this regard they are ridiculously high “as if” USA is subsidizing other countries in this category. I’m saying we should nor compare it to a place where spending 15 dollars on medicine, people may as well end up die due to lack of affordability, since USA is a rich developed country. So yes US medicine and drugs are far better than these poor countries but a travesty among other rich countries.
      Feb 19
  • All else equal besides the healthcare situation I’m shocked anyone picked body 2
    Feb 19 6
    • You’re assuming that, nothing says cheap healthcare and non-universal healthcare cant both exist at the same time

      Your strategy works unless body 2 has no price controls for how much you get charged for your own needs. Or if you make 300k+ TC like us, then what body 2 currently charges becomes irrelevant
      Feb 19
    • Besides you don’t think you are paying for your neighbors with your health insurance? Wake up unless you dont have insurance you are paying for your neighbors as we speak. The only insurance that carries value from what you put in is a HSA
      Feb 19
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    Feb 19 0
  • Are you forced to live in any body?
    Feb 19 1
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      you are not forced to live in any body, but there are other factors, such as you just happen to be here because some of your relatives are here, and that you don't have citizenship in Canada or Taiwan. I guess nobody "force" you to do anything, but there are circumstances that you cannot control. And of course, the rich people have a way to make the poor people keep on being poor so they have to keep working until they die. "NOBODY FORCED THEM TO. Lah lah lah lah lah".
      Feb 19
  • Who actually thinks (besides those that profit and those uneducated and blinded by those that profit) that America’s healthcare system isn’t anything but a global embarrassment, now add on our education system and you might start to wonder how we even survive lol
    Feb 19 1