alt Hacker News> Even if you’re paying a gazillion dollars for IVF treatments, you still only get a few precious moments to talk to your doctor every visit. That’s just how the US medical system works. If you want to plumb the depths of what treatments are possible, or ask super detailed and anxiety ridden questions about every single scan from the latest round of imaging, you’re going to want a chatbot by your side.
Ehm, no. I want doctors by my side working in a system that is not meant to be producing gains for the rich investors but to help the sick and sad.
Just imagine what could be done with all those billions poured into datacenters and GPUs, if they were invested in public goods like a decent health system!
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A health system is not a public good, access to a physician is both rivalrous (a doctor can’t see two patients at once without degrading care) and excludable. A public good, by definition, is neither rivalrous nor excludable. That’s not to say that the government shouldn’t provide private goods to citizens, but the term public provision or common welfare would be more appropriate to describe what the government is doing in those cases
Sure, that is what we want, but I am not sure what you expected OP to do? Put his life on hold, skip trying for a baby, and dedicate his life to trying to change a system that people have been fighting to change unsuccessfully for decades?
OP is playing the cards he has been dealt, not wishing that he was playing a completely different game.