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supernova_68 t1_jdtbava wrote

Reply to comment by pinkcheems in Private doctors in India are protesting against 'Right to health' bill. by pinkcheems

Problem is govt. Itself decides the package rate for all ailments ( which is quite low) and won't pay a dime extra (they even cut TDS form the decided package rate). So if an emergency patient requires a costly medication or much longer duration of stay, its upto hospital to decide whether to take the lose and provide the service or face the inevitable fine.

Also package rate is same for all hospitals, even if one is running in a village or a capital city. Running cost of both is vastly different. For eg : a super speciality doctor might agree to visit in jaipur hospital for fraction of price than to a village 100km away from jaipur.

>Btw state govt. Of Rajasthan provides free health insurance to all families in Rajasthan worth 25lakh rupees (30k$) per family.

No it doesn't, it uses ayushman bharat as base for covering low income group, then citizen have to pay Rs 850/ family / year to include in the scheme. Also package rates are way lower in chiranjeevi yojna than national Ayushman Bharat yojna.

Also govt doesn't provide payment for almost 4-6 months for every approved case, and the appointed insurance company regularly reject cases on basis of clerical mistake, or demand investigation which are not even in minimum document list. These cases get overturned if you pay to fight it at highest level , even after that govt. Can take more than 1 year for the payment. Many hospitals have not received payment for case overturned in 2018.

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Famous_Count_1623 t1_jdtb1ho wrote

Reply to comment by green_flash in Banksy's migrant rescue ship seized by Italy's coast guard in Lampedusa by Crimbobimbobippitybo

Uh not according to Doctors Without Borders:

" In 2022, 253,205 people attempted to cross the Mediterranean; 42 per
cent of those were intercepted at sea and returned to Libya, despite
that Libya is not a place of safety. People continue to drown or go
missing during the attempt; 2,367 died or went missing in 2022"

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6bb26ec559294f7f t1_jdt9wci wrote

Reply to comment by green_flash in Banksy's migrant rescue ship seized by Italy's coast guard in Lampedusa by Crimbobimbobippitybo

The problem is incentives. If you make a charity to buy child slaves and free them, you create an incentive to produce more child slaves. Even though you are directly helping children, literally saving child slaves, you create an economic incentive for more child slaves. This isn't purely hypothetical, anti-slavery charities don't spend money directly buying and freeing slaves for this very reason.

I'm not saying the same does apply here, only raising an example to show that it is possible that helping to solve a problem can instead make it worse.

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James20k t1_jdt9uql wrote

Reply to comment by 1nfinitydividedby0 in Scientists discover supermassive black hole that now faces Earth by Bcap2219

A black hole has a spin, and spins about an axis which means that you can define a direction that it is pointing fairly straightforwardly

Black holes also aren't point like objects, the interior/singularity is completely divorced from the exterior of the black hole - they are a property of spacetime itself, not an effect that arises from the singularity

Astrophysical black holes formed from stellar collapse also don't have a singularity as viewed from an external observer

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billybib182763 t1_jdt81cm wrote

Reply to comment by -businessskeleton- in Paralysis Outbreak in Europe Tied to 'Stomach Botox' Procedures by MagnusAuslander

I’m very happy for you and I hope you keep it off. Truly. If it was easy, however, it wouldn’t be such a big issue. It is incredibly difficult to lose weight and keep it off. I speak from experience. I lost 60 lb, put it back on, and lost it again. I haven’t gained weight again now, but it is a constant struggle.

Losing weight is dead simple - cal. in < cal. out - but is damn hard!!

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