[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[metatron]

Sweden.

Vouchers.
Vouchers and "feminism".

 

[Mise]

Is the UK even on that graph?

 

[Winner]

Sweden.

Vouchers.
Vouchers and "feminism".

Link to video.

Couldn't resist. (I suck at math, btw )

 

[Grisu]

Is the UK even on that graph?

I'm not sure, but I think the didn't participate in the 2003 study and thus their performance couldn't be compared. They're pretty much directly on the OECD average in 2013

 

[El_Machinae]

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/price-availability-ecg-versus-parking/

Most people in the United States are shielded by third-party payers from the marginal cost of their health care consumption. It has been suggested that removing that shield would foment concern about price and, in turn, create market pressure to keep prices down.

Nevertheless, however concerned about prices they may be, consumers cannot act on their concerns if prices are not easily available. This point was raised by Rosenthal et al,1 who attempted to find the price for hip replacement and discovered that “many health care providers cannot provide reasonable price estimates.”

Still, it may be incorrect to extrapolate the findings of Rosenthal et al to all health care because hip replacement is a complex service. The price of a hip replacement may not be known in advance because costs are higher if a special implant will be needed or if the patient requires a prolonged hospital stay. Furthermore, even if hospitals know their typical cost, they may find it unwise to offer hip replacements at that figure. Owing to information asymmetry, hospitals selling hip replacements to all comers at their typical cost might find themselves inundated with patients who suspect that their own costs will be higher.

It also may be the case that hospitals are ill equipped to answer questions about price over the telephone

To test these hypotheses, the methods of Rosenthal et al were used with a variation. We telephoned and asked whether price information could be obtained for an electrocardiogram (ECG)—a procedure with uniform costs and free of adverse selection. Next, we telephoned and asked whether price information could be obtained for the cost of parking at the hospital. The provision of parking prices would suggest that hospitals can indeed answer telephone queries about costs—when they want to.

 

[metatron]

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/price-availability-ecg-versus-parking/

Spoiler :

It's easier if you just set the prices:

Spoiler :

650

Elektrokardiographische Untersuchung zur Feststellung einer Rhythmusstörung und/oder zur Verlaufskontrolle gegebenenfalls als Notfall-EKG

152 8,86 15,95

651

Elektrokardiographische Untersuchung in Ruhe auch gegebenenfalls nach Belastung mit Extremitäten- und Brustwandableitungen (mindestens neun Ableitungen)

253 14,75 26,55

652

Elektrokardiographische Untersuchung unter fortschreibender Registrierung (mindestens 9 Ableitungen) in Ruhe und bei physikalisch definierter und reproduzierbarer Belastung (Ergometrie) gegebenenfalls auch Belastungsänderung

445 25,94 59,66

653

Elektrokardiographische Untersuchung auf telemetrischem Wege

253 14,75 26,55

Die Leistungen nach den Nummern 650 bis 653 sind nicht nebeneinander berechnungsfähig.

Awesome communist perk: None of them is one thousand bleeping two hundred bucks.

 

[really]

This showed up on my Facebook feed from the European Parliament.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20131112STO24428/html/The-%E2%82%AC275-billion-challenge-the-stakes-of-the-EU's-free-trade-negotiations

 

[Borachio]

From the link, it's amazing how strong the US economy still is, though. By population the EU should easily outstrip the US.

 

[Lord Chambers]

 

[peter grimes]

What's the advertising and lobbying policy for this thread?

For that matter, that 40% figure for the fraction of cyber attacks that target energy sector (electric utilities + pipelines) is bogus. It comes from this report (page 5) from the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Response Team. In other words, they're only looking at the sum of attacks against Industrial Control Systems. That ignores financial services, retail, data storage - everything non-mechanical that uses the internet.

Propaganda, basically.

 

[peter grimes]

Ripped from a post by Terxpahseyton.

What is behind the precipitous drop in American Indian birth rates since 1990? It's an outlier, immune to the millennial bump & grind that the other groups enjoyed :HMM:

 

[madviking]

number of anchor babies are dropping precipitously

 

[Tee Kay]

What is behind the precipitous drop in American Indian birth rates since 1990? It's an outlier, immune to the millennial bump & grind that the other groups enjoyed :HMM:

More American Indian identifying as mixed-race, perhaps? (I know jackfruit about this though this is just a wild guess)

 

[Masada]

That's possible. Native Americans have the highest inter-marriage rates. I'll have a look at my papers tomorrow and get back with an answer.

 

[Cutlass]

And many more. http://www.theatlantic.com/business...economic-stories-of-2013-in-40-graphs/282193/

 

[dutchfire]

http://www.theatlantic.com/business...ica-gets-to-work-in-1-very-long-graph/282349/

Every day, roughly 860.000 people bike to work in the US.

http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/themas...aties/artikelen/archief/2004/2004-1393-wm.htm
In the Netherlands, more than a million people bike to work every day. (Figure from 2002)

 

[Cutlass]

http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2013/12/the_everexpandi_2.html

 

[Cutlass]

http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/how-oil-made-north-dakota-rich-in-one-map-20131212

 

[madviking]

Can you say "Bakken formation"?

 

[Cutlass]