I just started messing around with this writing platform, paragraph.xyz. As an economist, you might find it interesting. You create your own token, and followers can buy it, bidding it up. Essentially, readers reward good posts based on that one post, not a subscription pledge.
Healthcare! All politicians want to talk about is insurance and subsidies, to me these are just bandaids over the hemorrhaging wound called healthcare cost. Much like a trillion federal $$ caused tuition costs to explode, pouring more federal $$ into healthcare will just cause costs to continue to grow. We continue to stimulate demand while removing the constraint of affordability and using insurance to pay routine costs of living. If you were king what would be the first five steps you would take to address affordability?
Eliminate the fiction of Zero prices; put provider-set prices back into the process. The issue of "how will poor people pay" should be an entirely different problem to solve. The current mess is due to an amazing scheme of cross-subsidizing to conceal the fact that medical providers refuse to work for Zero income.
I enjoyed your short videos, but I wish you could also include captions for those of us with imperfect hearing. I use captions for everything with visual and audio.
Brillaint move packaging these into bite-sized rants. The housing video is probly my favorite because it cuts right through the political noise to show why subsidizing demand without fixing supply is just economic theater. I've been trying to explain that to local planners for years, and this format makes the logic pretty much undeniable.
I just started messing around with this writing platform, paragraph.xyz. As an economist, you might find it interesting. You create your own token, and followers can buy it, bidding it up. Essentially, readers reward good posts based on that one post, not a subscription pledge.
Healthcare! All politicians want to talk about is insurance and subsidies, to me these are just bandaids over the hemorrhaging wound called healthcare cost. Much like a trillion federal $$ caused tuition costs to explode, pouring more federal $$ into healthcare will just cause costs to continue to grow. We continue to stimulate demand while removing the constraint of affordability and using insurance to pay routine costs of living. If you were king what would be the first five steps you would take to address affordability?
Eliminate the fiction of Zero prices; put provider-set prices back into the process. The issue of "how will poor people pay" should be an entirely different problem to solve. The current mess is due to an amazing scheme of cross-subsidizing to conceal the fact that medical providers refuse to work for Zero income.
I enjoyed your short videos, but I wish you could also include captions for those of us with imperfect hearing. I use captions for everything with visual and audio.
Brillaint move packaging these into bite-sized rants. The housing video is probly my favorite because it cuts right through the political noise to show why subsidizing demand without fixing supply is just economic theater. I've been trying to explain that to local planners for years, and this format makes the logic pretty much undeniable.
I enjoy your articles and videos. Even at my age, 71, it is nice to be learning!