Thanks for the pointers. I’ve reread this now—it is a good read and interesting throughout!
Intriguing though health economics is, I think I am more focused on the actual treatments. I want to understand, when faced with a patient, the methods that can be used to pick the treatment. I am interested in how effective each method would be for the patient and how well they would scale to an entire population.
It seems strange that these questions have been omitted in a book comparing healthcare systems.
Scott Alexander reviewed this book that reviewed health care systems in different countries:
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-which-country-has-the
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-health?s=r
Thanks for the pointers. I’ve reread this now—it is a good read and interesting throughout!
Intriguing though health economics is, I think I am more focused on the actual treatments. I want to understand, when faced with a patient, the methods that can be used to pick the treatment. I am interested in how effective each method would be for the patient and how well they would scale to an entire population.
It seems strange that these questions have been omitted in a book comparing healthcare systems.