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Isabeau

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Posted: May 12, 2023 - 3:58pm

 miamizsun wrote:

brilliant people working to build solutions
worth your time...




Baby I'm Amazed.
But the seminal question is "Will it become for the benefit for the masses?"  My bet is it won't.
Science advancement is a feel good concept, but in structural and financial realities, it becomes a commodity like everything else.
Future advancement is a warm fuzzy, but the now in this fragile nation, is fraught with real terrors.

Once I celebrated innovation and discovery in the U.S. Now I wonder which angle from the right will shoot it down.


miamizsun

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Posted: May 12, 2023 - 11:37am

brilliant people working to build solutions
worth your time...


miamizsun

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Posted: Aug 13, 2022 - 6:37am

 miamizsun wrote:
 Steely_D wrote:
My previous boss, Robbie Pearl, has talked about this at length. He saved a failing Kaiser Permanente and now is an author and podcaster and Forbes contributor. His stuff is worth reading if the topic interests you. Brilliant guy, and I owe him my successful career.
thanks! i just subbed to his podcast
will give it a spin
 

update: let it rip in the background while driving and eating lunch - pretty solid stuff  
miamizsun

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Posted: Aug 10, 2022 - 9:11am

 Steely_D wrote:


My previous boss, Robbie Pearl, has talked about this at length. He saved a failing Kaiser Permanente and now is an author and podcaster and Forbes contributor. His stuff is worth reading if the topic interests you. Brilliant guy, and I owe him my successful career.


thanks! i just subbed to his podcast
will give it a spin
Steely_D

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Posted: Aug 10, 2022 - 9:05am

 miamizsun wrote:

My previous boss, Robbie Pearl, has talked about this at length. He saved a failing Kaiser Permanente and now is an author and podcaster and Forbes contributor. His stuff is worth reading if the topic interests you. Brilliant guy, and I owe him my successful career.
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Posted: Aug 10, 2022 - 9:00am



Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries?

    Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries despite paying much more for healthcare. We explore the number of factors which might explain this difference.by Max RoserOctober 29, 2020

    Why do Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries, despite paying so much more for health care?

    The short summary of what I will discuss below is that Americans suffer higher death rates from smoking, obesity, homicides, opioid overdoses, suicides, road accidents, and infant deaths. In addition to this, deeper poverty and less access to healthcare mean Americans at lower incomes die at a younger age than poor people in other rich countries.




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    Posted: Aug 9, 2022 - 6:34pm

    America, Land of the Dying? Alarming Study Shows U.S. Killing Its Own Population
    As Bor and his researchers note, inequality is surely a big part of the picture. In 2017, economist Peter Temin described how America began to diverge into what are essentially two separate nations in the 1970s. One nation – around 20% of the total population — boasts college educations, good jobs, and access to quality healthcare. The other nation, where the 80% majority resides, is stuck with low wages, insecure jobs, fewer education opportunities, and unaffordable and inadequate healthcare. These are the people getting sicker and dying younger than they used to. Temin observes that the US economic structure now looks a lot more like that of a developing nation than a wealthy superpower, which may help explain why the country’s mortality rates as a whole can’t compete with peer countries where such bifurcation is less pronounced. Thomas Ferguson, Director of Research at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), has studied America’s increasing turn to money-driven politics, which has resulted in public-minded policies giving way to free market-driven policies that do not consider the needs of the majority.
    "Human flourishing" in practice.

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    Posted: Aug 1, 2022 - 11:10am

    Monkeypox Is About to Become the Next Public Health Failure
    The outbreak doesn’t bode well for America’s response to future pathogens.
    Manbird

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    Posted: Dec 10, 2021 - 4:38pm

     Red_Dragon wrote:

    Once again, I hate for-profit health care. My mental health providers are no longer "in network". So now I have to locate and start all over again with a new shrink and therapist. jfc



    As long as you can get your meds - if you take any. That's my nightmare about losing my medi-cal, which could happen any day. Good luck!
    Red_Dragon

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    Posted: Dec 10, 2021 - 4:36pm

    Once again, I hate for-profit health care. My mental health providers are no longer "in network". So now I have to locate and start all over again with a new shrink and therapist. jfc
    Red_Dragon

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    Posted: Oct 14, 2021 - 9:03am

     Steely_D wrote:


    As long as health care companies are profit-driven, it'll keep happening. They have shareholders to answer to, so they have to figure out how to make money off your illnesses.


    Eggzactly. Which is why profit and healthcare don't mix.
    Steely_D

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    Posted: Oct 14, 2021 - 9:01am

     Red_Dragon wrote:

    As long as health care companies are profit-driven, it'll keep happening. They have shareholders to answer to, so they have to figure out how to make money off your illnesses.
    Red_Dragon

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    Posted: Oct 14, 2021 - 5:53am

    UnitedHealth raises 2021 profit forecast on Optum strength
    miamizsun

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    Posted: Jul 30, 2021 - 6:55am

    for educational purposes only and is not investment advice
    lot of stuff going on in ai, biotech and health sciences

    this is a potentially much larger deal than it may seem

    about twelve minutes or so and this analyst lays it out pretty well

    around the 6 min mark you'll get the idea and applications


    Isabeau

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    Posted: Feb 25, 2021 - 8:03pm



     miamizsun wrote:


     miamizsun wrote:
    this could go in sci/tek thread as well (and this is not investment advice)

    pretty much the future of health care (or one of the biggest factors)

    quantgene's liquid biopsy is a long awaited technology whose time has come (or one of them)

    the great thing about this is that bhakdi understands the science, the technology and the distribution

    all about increasing precision medicine and decreasing cost

    very impressive (search for jo bhakdi and quantgene or listen here)


     

    for those who follow jonathan haidt you might have seen this...


     


    miamizsun

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    Posted: Feb 25, 2021 - 4:55am



     miamizsun wrote:
    this could go in sci/tek thread as well (and this is not investment advice)

    pretty much the future of health care (or one of the biggest factors)

    quantgene's liquid biopsy is a long awaited technology whose time has come (or one of them)

    the great thing about this is that bhakdi understands the science, the technology and the distribution

    all about increasing precision medicine and decreasing cost

    very impressive (search for jo bhakdi and quantgene or listen here)


     

    for those who follow jonathan haidt you might have seen this...


    miamizsun

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    Posted: Jan 2, 2021 - 7:32am

    i really hope there is something here

    i know people who suffer with/from arthritis in a big way...

    Humans Have Salamander-Like Ability to Regrow Cartilage in Joints

    Process could be harnessed as a treatment for osteoarthritis 

     
    Inflamed hip joint

    Contrary to popular belief, cartilage in human joints can repair itself through a process similar to that used by creatures such as salamanders and zebrafish to regenerate limbs, researchers at Duke Health found.

    Publishing online Oct. 9 in the journal Science Advances, the researchers identified a mechanism for cartilage repair that appears to be more robust in ankle joints and less so in hips. The finding could potentially lead to treatments for osteoarthritis, the most common joint disorder in the world. 

    westslope

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    Posted: Nov 22, 2020 - 9:41am



     rgio wrote:


     westslope wrote:

    Impressive.   Ratio means that the numerator and denominator are measured in the same units.

    I would like to see a chart of some per unit or per patient real litigation costs faced by US hospitals over the same time period.

    Oh well.  Nobody has ever argued that American Exceptionalism is cheap.  
     
    Investor ROI doesn't grow on trees you know.

    If you don't increase revenue faster than costs, how would you ever make more money?

     

    I think you are trying to be funny rgio but that is actually not how markets work.   Risk-adjusted ROI does not evolve that radically over time.

    But who cares?  Almost of voting American adults just voted for a guy who clearly has his own unique personal view on how markets work.   Is it not fascinating that just shy of 50% of voting American adults just voted for Marxist Keynesianism?  

    Besides that, Trump had 4 years to replace Obama Care and finally decided that the status quo was acceptable.  


    rgio

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    Posted: Nov 22, 2020 - 9:03am



     westslope wrote:

    Impressive.   Ratio means that the numerator and denominator are measured in the same units.

    I would like to see a chart of some per unit or per patient real litigation costs faced by US hospitals over the same time period.

    Oh well.  Nobody has ever argued that American Exceptionalism is cheap.  
     
    Investor ROI doesn't grow on trees you know.

    If you don't increase revenue faster than costs, how would you ever make more money?

    westslope

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    Posted: Nov 22, 2020 - 8:16am


    Impressive.   Ratio means that the numerator and denominator are measured in the same units.

    I would like to see a chart of some per unit or per patient real litigation costs faced by US hospitals over the same time period.

    Oh well.  Nobody has ever argued that American Exceptionalism is cheap.  
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