My favorite part is how Jokey gets worse and worse as he gets more 'health care' from the other smurfs who 'just want to help.'
Here's Robin Hanson's take on health care at EconTalk. He talks a lot about the psychological effect about the act of providing health care. There's also a lot of research on information asymmetry, like donating a funny bone because the docter says your friend will need one.
Dr. Hanson talked about the RAND health experiment, where people who got free health care were compared to people who paid for all of their own health care. The comparison said that even though the free health care folks used 30% more health care, they got essentially zero health benefit. So all that extra money spent bought zero additional health. I recall Dr. Hanson asking class when I took his class at Mason,
"If you assume that some treatments are helpful, and on average, extra treatment buys no health, then doesn't that mean that some of that treatment hurts?"
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