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u/HeckDang · 3 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

Here's an abridged version of the chapter on medical licensing in this book.. It's a good little intro to the topic.

>...the role of licensing has been largely ignored in the debate on spiraling healthcare costs. The apparent explanation is that nobody can imagine that there is any alternative. The complexity of modern medicine, the need for extensive training to master that complexity, and the harms that can be inflicted by incompetent physicians all lead to the seemingly obvious conclusion that state screening of physicians is inescapably necessary...

>This point of view was encapsulated in an exchange between Justices Stephen Breyer and Antonin Scalia in a recent Supreme Court case that addressed the composition of state licensing boards for dentists. During oral argument Breyer observed, “I would like brain surgeons to decide [who can perform brain surgery in this state].” Scalia, no stranger to dissent, found nothing to disagree with. “I want a neurologist to decide,” he added.

>A strong status quo bias is understandable here; after all, state licensing of doctors has been around for more than a century. When looking at
the situation with fresh eyes, it is striking how little in the way of genuine consumer protection the current licensing system provides. Indeed, there are good arguments that existing policies actually reduce the overall quality of American healthcare.

>Let’s start with the fact that Justices Breyer and Scalia were incorrect in thinking that state licensing decides who can perform brain surgery. A medical license entitles its holder to practice medicine generally; no specialties are licensed by the state. Complete an approved residency program in the United States in podiatry, pass the state medical examination, and you are legally authorized to do brain surgery, heart transplants, or any other procedure you wish. Given how specialized medicine is these days, a state medical license is therefore not a reliable indicator of relevant competence in a wide range of critical, life-or-death situations.

>Furthermore, medical licensing’s stringent requirements are imposed only on those entering the profession. Since a career can span many decades, during which time best practices frequently change in dramatic fashion, the mere possession of a license offers little assurance that large numbers of practicing doctors are actually competent. Yes, licensing boards do have the power to suspend or revoke licenses as well as
issue fines and reprimands, but the actual discipline imposed by such boards is notoriously lax. Of doctors who made at least 10 separate malpractice payments between 1990 and 2005, only one third received any kind of discipline from their state medical boards. When sanctions are imposed, they are usually for illegally prescribing drugs, substance abuse, or inappropriate behavior with patients, not simple incompetence.

>Virtually all the real quality screening that does occur is performed by the private sector. Private specialty boards certify competence in particular practice areas. Practice groups and health maintenance organizations decide which physicians to hire, while hospitals decide which physicians will be granted admitting and surgical privileges. These decisions about employment and affiliations are made with a view toward burnishing and safeguarding reputation and minimizing exposure to liability.

>In particular, the looming threat of malpractice liability, and the consequent need to acquire insurance, creates strong incentives for greater quality. Insurance premiums are heavily experience-rated, meaning they go up sharply for physicians who have to pay claims. Malpractice insurers offer discounts for participation in risk management programs; they impose surcharges for things like failed board examinations and failure to obtain hospital privileges. They can even restrict a
physician’s practice or require supervision or more training. Despite claims from conservatives and the medical profession that the system is out of control, there is good evidence that malpractice awards are in line with actual damages and little evidence that a so-called liability crisis is driving doctors out of practice or forcing them into wasteful defensive medicine. All told, normal commercial motives for providing good service,
backstopped by the courts and malpractice insurers, do much more to protect the public from bad doctors than anything accomplished by state
medical boards.

>...

> In addition, licensing can reduce the quality of healthcare provision by constricting the supply of doctors, raising their fees, and thereby inducing people not to go to the doctor. Instead, they rely on self-help or seek out some non-mainstream but more affordable alternative. By reducing the number of qualified physicians and thereby boosting the market share of homeopaths, nutritional supplement hawkers, crystal therapists, and other assorted quacks, licensing pushes the overall quality of healthcare downward.

>...

>Most analysis of American doctors’ lavish pay focuses on the demand side—in particular, heavy reliance on third-party payment (whether by private insurers or the government through Medicare and Medicaid) that renders the actual consumers of healthcare (patients) indifferent to costs at the point of sale, as well as the continued dominance of a “fee for service” payment model that effectively rewards doctors for inefficiency. But supply-side factors play an important role as well.

>First of all, the rigorous training and examination requirements imposed by state licensing act directly to impede entry into the medical profession. Furthermore, these entry barriers are buttressed by limits on who can provide the necessary training. Under state licensing laws, the American Medical Association is vested with the authority to provide accreditation for U.S. medical schools, and accreditation is limited to a particular class size. Thus the medical profession controls how many newly minted MDs are produced in the country every year. From 1980 until around 2005, the number of medical school slots was frozen at around 16,000 first-year students; since then, expansion has brought the number above 20,000.

>Although graduation from a U.S. medical school is not required to obtain a medical license, completion of a U.S. residency program is (in
contrast to other advanced countries, which regularly license foreign-born physicians who did their training abroad). The U.S. residency requirement, combined with highly restrictive policies on high-skill immigration, makes AMA power over medical school accreditation a powerful
lever to constrict supply. Meanwhile, by historical accident the vast bulk of funding for residency slots is provided by Medicare, and for cost saving reasons the number of slots has been frozen since 1997. In 2016, for example, 8,640 graduates of accredited medical schools who applied for residencies—or roughly a quarter of all applicants—failed to be given a match. The consequence is that, at a time when there is a
desperate need for more general practitioners, thousands of graduates of medical schools are prevented from becoming doctors.

>The final layer of supply control consists of laws against the unauthorized practice of medicine. Here physicians have lost some ground in recent decades as midlevel healthcare professionals—physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and midwives—have won the right to
perform many functions previously reserved for M.D.s. The liberalization remains patchy; currently, just 21 states and the District of Columbia allow nurse practitioners to diagnose and treat patients and prescribe medication without a physician’s supervision.

>The regulation of entry into the dental profession follows the same general pattern as that for doctors. All dentists must graduate from an
accredited dental school in the United States, with the limited exception that some schools in Canada have also been approved. A commission operating under the auspices of the American Dental Association performs accreditation. Dentists must also pass a licensing exam, whose relative rigor has much more to do with improving earnings for dentists than improving outcomes for patients. A study by Morris Kleiner and Robert Kudrle examined differences in pass rates among the states to gauge the effect of entry regulation. They estimated that dentists in the most restrictive states earned 12 percent more than their colleagues in the least restrictive states; however, they were unable to find any evidence that the quality of care was higher in the more restrictive states.

u/Fluffoide · 5 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

Hard to make that argument, both cows and humans are 100% sentient. You're looking for sapience, which is humanlike intelligence such as wisdom.

However, it's hard to even say definitively that cows are not sapient. There's so much evidence of animal intelligence on a sliding scale with humans at one end of the scale, and you're talking as if humans were somehow independent of the scale.
If you're interested in this topic, I highly recommend the book Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?
It's an incredibly deep investigation into the nature of animal intelligence and the controversy surrounding the science of it. It changed the way I see animals.

u/xiaozhenliu · 1 pointr/YangForPresidentHQ

Yang is Taiwanese. He was born in New York, went to Exeter (the No.1 private high school in the US) and Brown. He got his law degree from Columbia University. He does not even speak Mandarin. (or just a little bit) His career was all about tech startups and created thousands of jobs for America. I am curious how you would become worry that he has any connection with the PRC. Taiwan and US are alliances!

I am from mainland China but I spent 6 years in the US, legally. Full scholarship and full-time job. I was quite surprised to find out about the misunderstandings between America and Chinese people. I wish you could one day visit China and see how different it is from the narratives you read about in your media.

For the meantime, I would recommend you to read the former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan-Yew’s opinion about China and US. Probably this book by a Harvard professor:

https://www.amazon.com/Lee-Kuan-Yew-Insights-international/dp/0262019124/

Lee as the third-party and one of the best country leaders provide a lot of insights in this book.

u/melsauce · 5 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

Just to add to the other replies, here is part of a talk that explains part of the relationship between MMT and FJG.
https://youtu.be/7sd-ElKMbPI?t=508

Economics Professor L. Randall, one could say "wrote the book"
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1137539909/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 on MMT.

To get an idea on how most people in the field view MMT, although the phrasing of the question may indicate a bias more hostile towards MMT, this answer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbG6rLgw7_Y by the current Fed Chair is a good summary.

MMT and FJG are not necessarily tied to each other, it's just that the framework that many MMT advocates currently hold uses FJG.

i.e.
There is not a, MMT derived, theoretical reason why a country's MMT based economic policy would not work with or without the FJG. The same would hold true for a FD or UBI.


Note:
To really understand MMT, its context and implications one really needs to dig deep into traditional economics, quantitative social science, and heterodox economics. MMT is, in a tiny way, like quantum physics in the sense that if anyone tells you they really understand modern monetary policy and how MMT fits into it, they don't. Hence why you'll get many replies to the question "What is MMT?" that are seemingly unconfident.

The Institute for New Economic Thinking's youtube channel is a good resource that is presented in a manner that most people can understand.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp5hG8rt1z2MJ9aNVxY2Xdg

There are many books I could recommend, but Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises by Ray Dalio is available for free, link: https://www.bridgewater.com/big-debt-crises/Principles-For-Navigating-Big-Debt-Crises-By-Ray-Dalio.pdf and while it would be a roundabout way to understanding econ policy the first 15 pages or so should give one enough context to better understand what people are talking about in regards to policy recommendations and MMT.

u/plshelp987654 · 6 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

It will be very interesting (and sad) if people on the right let partisanship get in the way of solutions if Yang does start polling even higher or becomes the Dem nominee. The Daily Wire (a conservative site) has this: https://www.dailywire.com/news/48858/where-does-andrew-yang-stand-issues-heres-josh-hammer

> Yang's call for a more worker-centric approach to capitalism makes him a possible ally of some more populist-oriented economic thinkers on the American Right, such as Tucker Carlson and Oren Cass.

These guys on the populist right seem like they would and should be open to/supportive of Yang's ideas. But then again, it's possible it's they might not be as populist as they claim. Salon (far left site) has this to say about Cass's book:

https://www.salon.com/2018/12/01/the-once-and-future-worker-is-romney-loyalist-oren-casss-labor-theory-of-value/

>Conversely, Cass’s core reform proposals range from politically impossible overhauls of labor and environmental law, to supply-side wage subsidies and regulatory reforms that are barely differentiable from the Zombie Reaganism he set out to transcend. If conservative populists are to win out over the racist culture warriors, they’ll have to do better.

u/gangofminotaurs · 8 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

I hope you find that relevant enough, but the ex-trader now writer Chris Arnade (@Chris_arnade) just released a book that speaks exactly to this issue.

Here are two comment thread about that book that I liked a lot :

https://twitter.com/_CLancellotti/status/1145697046629900288

https://twitter.com/SeanTrende/status/1145691261837500416

u/hdkw836f · 7 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/what-is-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/


https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/our-biggest-economic-social-political-issue-two-economies-ray-dalio

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/civilian-labor-force-participation-rate.htm

Sometimes technology and trade is intertwined. For a subset of the story a book I liked is “The Box”. Container shipping (new tech) was fought against by unionized dock workers. They later compromised by the shipping companies setting aside some cost savings for a pension.
Container shipping lowered the cost of shipping such that massive global trade became possible.

https://www.amazon.com/Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller-Economy/dp/0691136408

If US can be automated. So can China. So really it’s all intertwined.

Two more questions. When we switched from a agrarian society to industrial society. Was it peaceful? Why do we have Labor Day?

Last question, why is Trump in office?

u/tells · 37 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

Coddling of the American Mind is a really good book. very much in the same vein as Andrew's book.

u/fromoutsidelookingin · 0 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

> Fortune cookies are an American invention that try to perpetuate the foreign, mysterious, unscrutable asian stereotype.

Really? I think intention is very important here. I don't think there is an ill intent here.

 

If people are interested in the history of fortunte cookie, this funny book by Jennifer 8. Lee The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food should fascinate you. (Yes, that's her official middle name with a numeral 8. Talking about badass) Or just simply goole "Is fortune cookie racist" to read the opinions of all other more learned people.

u/msikcufdogeht · 1 pointr/YangForPresidentHQ

first as much I would like Andrew Yang will not get the democratic nomination the best thing that could happen is his ideas get incorporated into someone else campaign.

The worse part is that while we can use the VAT and decrease social services to give everyone 1000 dollars a month here is the fundamental problem the American mindset conditioned to see this as "increase my taxes', "welfare" and "pull yourself up by your bootstraps bs".

Who would turn out for this would be more urban, younger and minority voters. This argument is baseless and pointless...

Whatever this moderate weird libertarian story is we don't need it:

https://www.thenation.com/article/david-brooks-never-trump/

**screw brooks btw**

Also you can read this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Brown-New-White-Demographic-Revolution/dp/1620971151

u/hitssquad · 1 pointr/YangForPresidentHQ

https://www.amazon.com/Catching-Fire-Cooking-Made-Human/dp/0465020410/

> Automation relies on lack of human input outside set up

So there's no auto in any automobile? You're saying there's no automation right now?

> a beast of burden to plow fields was not automation [...] Ai/Algorithmic learning isn't the same as a mechanized arm

Prove animals don't learn.

> we now have a tool in AI that can replaced an infinite number of processes.

That makes your labor more efficient. Thus, you are now more employable.

u/trumpean · 2 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

They generally are the ones who have the potential to make the most sense: they’ve experienced the taxpayer-funded bullshit that actually goes on behind the opaque curtain of “support our troops!! More money for the troops! And if you dare ask where that money ultimately ends up, you hate the troops and America and Jesus!!!”

Anyone want an eye-opening read on the insanity of our adventures abroad, I highly recommend “We Meant Well,” by Peter Van Buren https://www.amazon.com/We-Meant-Well-American-Project/dp/0805096817 ; think a nonfiction Catch-22 in 2011 Iraq

u/WhyNotWaffles · 9 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

https://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemountaintop.htm
This is the famous speech he gave the day before where he seemingly prophetically predicts his assassination.
I think Yang means it in general, and certainly the idea of a guaranteed minimum income was not in this speech ( at least directly), it was a speech about workers' (equal) rights.


I have not been able to find what he was doing the day of his assassination, but I found this book
https://www.amazon.com/Redemption-Martin-Luther-King-Hours/dp/0807083380/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
whose description states
" He was calling for massive civil disobedience in the nation’s capital to pressure lawmakers to enact sweeping anti-poverty legislation. But King didn’t live long enough to lead the protest. He was fatally shot at 6:01 p.m. on April 4 in Memphis. "


So in effect/in general Yang is right on this right on this. After reading the speech and doing this research, I've decided to buy this and King's book to learn more about his life and final days and also understand his fight a little better too.

u/BuraisonFujii · 2 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

How is surveying people who identity with the Republican Party not credible?

" New analysis by PRRI and The Atlantic, based on surveys conducted before and after the 2016 election, developed a model to test a variety of potential factors influencing support for Trump among white working-class voters. The model identifies five significant independent predictors of support for Trump among white working-class voters. No other factors were significant at conventional levels.

If you don't like that study, here's several more.

MORE EVIDENCE THAT RACISM AND SEXISM WERE KEY TO TRUMP'S VICTORY

Economic anxiety isn’t driving racial resentment. Racial resentment is driving economic anxiety.

The comparison between 2004 and 2012 is especially informative. Both George W. Bush and Obama saw the unemployment rate rise by about two percentage points at various times during their first terms in office; both presidents then presided over drops in the unemployment rate during the year leading up to their reelections (about half a point for Bush and one point for Obama).

Graph Analysis limited to whites only. Predicted values calculated by setting party identification and ideological self-placement to the average white respondent. (Graphic by Michael Tesler)

This suggests that the national economy’s association with Obama has made racial resentment a stronger determinant of gloomy economic perceptions than it was before his presidency. However, comparisons between 2012 and earlier years cannot conclusively resolve the chicken or egg question.

To do so, it’s important to have surveys of the exact same individuals before and after Obama became president. The 2007-2008-2012 Cooperative Campaign Analysis Project can do this by testing whether racial attitudes — measured before Obama became president — increasingly shaped economic perceptions during his presidency.

The results below show that this is precisely what happened.  Racial resentment was not related to whites’ perceptions of the economy in December 2007 after accounting for partisanship and ideology. When these same people were re-interviewed in July 2012, racial resentment was a powerful predictor of economic perceptions. Again, the greater someone’s level of racial resentment, the worse they believed the economy was doing.

Graph Analysis limited to white panelists interviewed in both the December 2007 and July 2012 wave of the CCAP Re-Interviews. Predicted values calculated by setting party identification and ideological self-placement to the average white respondent. (Graphic by Michael Tesler)

Furthermore, additional analyses indicate that economic perceptions, whether measured in 2008 or even in 2012, did not cause people to change their underlying levels of racial resentment.

In fact, multiple studies, using several different surveys, have shown that overall levels of racial resentment were virtually unchanged by the economic crash of 2008. Some data even suggests that racial prejudice slightly declined during the height of economic collapse in the fall of 2008. The evidence is pretty clear, then, that economic concerns are not driving racial resentment in the Obama Era.

Of course, this doesn’t mean that economic anxiety has no influence on support for Trump. John Sides and I presented some preliminary evidence that economic insecurity was a factor in Trump’s rise.

Nor does it mean that racial resentment is the prime determinant of economic anxiety. It isn’t.

Nevertheless, in an era where racial attitudes have become increasingly associated with so many of the president’s positions, Obama’s race is largely responsible for the association between racial resentment and economic anxiety. And this racialized political environment undoubtedly aided Donald Trump’s rise to the top of the Republican Party.

u/BoomersForYang2020 · 9 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

Okay, this has become quite long. TL;DR At the bottom.

First off:

>It started soon after T_D became big.

You know what, that's probably one of the reasons the term "Trump Derangement Syndrome" caught on - legitimate corruption within the Democratic Party was continually treated as nonsense by the majority of liberals since the ones who were talking most about it happened to be Trump + his supporters; based on this fact, WikiLeaks/etc. had to be just some crazy conspiracy theory that's not worth looking into, right? (Wrong!)

And I hear you - I was fooled as well for a good while, and viewed these people as conspiracy theory whackos until I looked into it myself. I honestly half-wish I could go back to being politically naive again, since the 2016 election/Wikileaks debacle has made me quite cynical when it comes to politics... it forced me to reckon with the fact that the Democratic Party is cut from the same cloth as the Republican Party in far too many ways, and that we have no moral high horse to ride on :-/

As for Wikileaks - I haven't looked for a while, but the DNC acknowledged that their internal DNC correspondences which were leaked are legit. And what they've got is freaking nuts - not only was Bernie fucked over, but Donald Trump was propped up via the DNC/MSM in the Republican primary to run against Hillary, since he was the only one her they thought she could beat due to her unfavorability numbers.

This is the primary reason Trump's face was blasted on the liberal media basically 24/7; they actively wanted him to clinch the nomination so Hillary would face someone she could defeat in the general. (Look up the "Pied Piper" strategy)

Also, Donna Brazille (former DNC chair + Hillary Clinton advisor) publicly corroborated the WikiLeaks findings (after Trump won), and threw Hillary/the DNC under the bus by writing a tell-all expose airing all of their dirty laundry (link below). She's also been quite vocal about the corruption on various news outlets such as PBS/The View/etc. - you can find these videos easily on Youtube.

Donna Brazille's book on Amazon

(For the record, I have NOT read this book personally - just excerpts + synopses.)

And get this - Donna now works for FOX, since the DNC obviously wants nothing to do with her anymore!

In any case - just look up key words like Julian Assange/Wikileaks/etc and you should be able to find what you're looking for; WikiLeaks had a home page back when it was released, but things might have changed since then. I would personally probably use a VPN by the way, but maybe I'm just paranoid due to the Snowden leaks/etc. :-/

Finally, I'm assuming that any Wikileaks material is more likely to come up on DuckDuckGo than Google at this point.

Happy hunting, and try your best not to become too cynical upon discovering for yourself just how corrupt those fuckers were (and seemingly still are).

TL;DR: Wikileaks is completely legit, but don't take my word for it; do some sleuthing of your own, and don't listen to or believe anyone (including myself!) without verifying things with your own eyes.

EDIT: I am officially no longer drunk, and have finished my comment. It has become quite long. Hopefully this suffices, but DM me if you're still having trouble finding it.