re: #80 Targetpractice

It is illustrating, how many Americans don’t think these things through.

The impact on health insurance providers is going to be astronomic. Thus insurance rates are going to go up.

Americans still don’t realize that other places in the world provide health care as well or better than here in the US. See Japan and South Korea, who so far have been able to keep lethality lower than say in Italy, both because they’re more hardcore about containment but also because they have had sufficient spare capacity in their health care system.

The people in Wuhan were not so fortunate. Death rates are high there, because they got overwhelmed early. Health care providers were among the victims.

We don’t carry much spare capacity in this country because of the attempts to keep costs low, to make profits.