dawhizkid

For whatever reason, the cost issue is completely missing from the dem primary debates on healthcare. Everything so far has been focused on health insurance coverage, and the candidates are really just debating what is the best way to cover more people.

A world where 100% of Americans are covered under the existing healthcare system is still a disaster because everything still costs so much between premiums, deductibles, copays and coinsurance. And on top of that, patient responsibility is still largely unknown until post treatment.

If you look at the cheapest Bronze plans on the Obamacare market, you're probably looking at $400/month for the premium with a $7500+ deducible for a single person. If someone is coerced into buying insurance and they can barely afford the premium, how is that something worth celebrating?

The most interesting thing about this whole thing is how irrational the public market can be, especially at a time when there’s so much scrutiny on private valuations. I don’t remember the highest marketcap the company reached but it was skyrocketing at some point despite never really having pivoted on its business model.

The Harvard connection was more widely known than the MIT one until recently.

I wouldn’t look too deep into it. Private valuations are mostly meaningless. This goes for everyone.

I was surprised to find that Miami Beach has free trolleys and Hollywood (CA) has a free nighttime (weekend?) shuttle as well here in the US.

I mean these companies have been getting crushed in the last week or so when the rest of the market has been rising. Medallia and Slack near all time lows since IPO.

There seems to have been a few big moves down among recent SaaS IPOs (Slack, Medallia, CrowdStrike).

Not sure why the market is suddenly fearful, though objectively these are mostly still overpriced.

I wonder why mopeds have never taken off in the US. Seems more practical than a scooter for medium to long distances within a city. I have relatives in Taiwan and mopeds are everywhere there (and other parts of Asia).