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Legal Systems Very Different From Ours, Because I Just Made Them Up
Fiction by Scott Alexander
18 min read 2,787 words
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Essays on insurance
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Bureaucracy As Active Ingredient
Scott examines the possibility that bureaucracy sometimes serves as an intentional barrier to discourage unnecessary requests, particularly in healthcare, but questions how widely this concept applies.
4 min read 552 words
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Cost Disease In Medicine: The Practical Perspective
Scott Alexander proposes a hypothetical low-cost psychiatric practice to combat medical cost disease, exploring its potential and the barriers to its implementation.
7 min read 940 words
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Navigating And/Or Avoiding The Inpatient Mental Health System
Scott Alexander offers a detailed guide on navigating the inpatient mental health system, balancing caution with the importance of seeking necessary treatment.
55 min read 8,438 words
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Fish – Now By Prescription
Scott Alexander examines overpriced medical products like Lovaza and Deplin, arguing they serve a purpose in the medical system, but criticizes exorbitant BRCA gene testing prices as harmful.
15 min read 2,213 words
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Prospect Theory: A Framework for Understanding Cognitive Biases
Scott explains prospect theory, Kahneman and Tversky's model of how people actually make decisions, showing how its value and probability weighting functions predict numerous cognitive biases including loss aversion, scope insensitivity, and framing effects.
8 min read 1,202 words