re: #5 klystron

What’s shocking is that people don’t look at this story and see why it absolutely justifies the need for single payer.

IMO, that wouldn’t be much better, because the problem at the heart of either approach is that the entity handling the payment of Ms. Rothbauer’s massive expense incurred for treatment would be a bureaucratic entity. As such, said entity, whether private or governmental, is going to be largely hidebound and inflexible. And that’s mostly because the costs of treating a major cardiac arrest are so high that whoever is paying is going to look for ways to cut costs, and cost-cutting usually involves either cutting care quality (mostly done by single-payer, but sometimes by private companies as well) or shuffling the costs off on someone or something else (which is almost exclusively done by private entities).

I may be wrong about some of what I’ve said, and I admit I’m only gliding along the surface of a very complex problem. But this is my read of the situation, as best as I can figure it.