Absolutely. I was only focusing on economics since the comment was made about how much money is a human life worth. There are a whole shopping list of other things too.
Makes me rethink my idolizing of ayn rand in high school. I’m rethinking a lot of stuff these days
Hospitals get an extra $29000 in federal money every time they put someone on a ventilator.
You're looking at their faces?
Lord knows there aren't any unethical doctors and hospital administrators out there.
You do know that how things are "coded" makes all the difference nowadays, right? You also know that when there is a financial incentive to do something, it generally gets done, right? You also can probably figure out from there that if there is a financial incentive to Hospitals to list deceased as Chinese virus victims, they're probably going to list as many as they possibly can as Chinese virus victims. Hell, the Texas DSHS guidelines allow them to do exactly that.
Thoughts and prayers
Interesting that the face plays such a big roll for you in evaluating hotness.
My dad was a doctor, and a very ethical one. But toward the end of his career, he wanted to get out because of how socialized the practice of medicine was becoming. And through his career, as a prominent physician and chief of staff at his hospital, he encountered a variety of doctors who were human, and had human shortcomings. I personally know people in that profession who:
Those meetings have open bar?
I think there should be a legit concern about pressure they may feel from hospital administrators and even the AMA types. And I have had medical workers tell me that pressure is real. Happened with the hdrxy issue as well. Probably time to start auditing to make sure the money is not leaded to needless and damaging pressure. We are way past overreaction being productive. We have evolved enough of the strategy in this pandemic that it is probably best to not put a set price on an action that gets funds from the government. Get more wholistic, so to speak.
