Blade Doc

Genuinely excited about doctors being replaced by AI

irish women making molotov cocktails during the battle of the bogside, widely considered to be the start of the troubles. derry, ireland (1969) 🇮🇪

Would you eat at a restaurant that gives you a menu without any prices on it, and then when you ask for a menu that does have prices on it, they hand you one with ridiculously inflated price labels next to each item, but reassure you that you won't actually pay those list prices--you'll pay a different, lower price based on what membership card you have. And when you ask what that lower price is, they can't reliably tell you, but promise to send you a bill in the mail a month later telling you what you actually owe. Welcome to the American healthcare system, which is the way it is not because businesses set out to do business this way, but because this is where they've found themselves after reacting to each previous policy and intervention (e.g., tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance, institutionalized third-party payment, gov't reimbursement formulae, cross-subsidization of public programs, etc.)

A famous study found that Black babies have higher survival rates if attended by Black than White doctors. But a re-analysis of the data shows the effect disappears after accounting for the fact that low birth weight babies more often see White doctors. [Link below.]

There are more average IQ women than average IQ men, even though the male, female average IQ is the same. It’s science.

Some of the happiest landlords I know keep their rents low. As one (with a dated building in an exceptional location) told me "more rent just means more taxes", and prefers getting paid in appreciation and having a 30 day termination right. There's a cost to getting market rent.