Heike Larson
@HeikeLarson
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Incredible opportunity for the right high school student. Unique course on the history of medical progress with both philosophical and a discovery bents. Amazing advisors and the best instructor for this topic in the world.
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Send us the talent of the future! The story of how (for example) we went from 50% of kids dying in childhood -> 25% in 1950 -> less than 5% in 2020 globally (and 0.5% many places) is worth knowing... and it might inform what you work on for the rest of your life!
Announcing a career exploration summer program for high school students: *Progress in Medicine* Learn from experts and be inspired by heroic work from the past to build an even better future. Now accepting applications
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Parents, teens: please check this out and apply! And help spread the word--I'm super excited about our new program; it's something I wish my teens could have done.
Announcing a career exploration summer program for high school students: *Progress in Medicine* Learn from experts and be inspired by heroic work from the past to build an even better future. Now accepting applications
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It’s time to affirm life. There are two ways to organize your values. One is around resentment – “who hurt me, who’s to blame, who needs to be taken down.” The other is around life – “what’s actually good, what’s worth building, protecting, and celebrating even in a messy
Two conversations this weekend make me think that there's a vibe shift afoot in Silicon Valley around what one should work on and what is worthwhile. Culturally, it feels like the moment is ripe for new frameworks: • Davos expert morality is stale and discredited. • It's also
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Horrible. I remember my excitement at my naturalization ceremony. To get there you have been through so much. To slam the door shut like that is horrible. Another example of senseless Trump admin cruelty
“In late September and early October, dozens of immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras who had obtained asylum had their naturalization interviews canceled “on the spot” in the New York area” https://t.co/4KifWvwOSD
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Bringing the future to life requires a lot of work, not just great tech but also thoughtful policy. Thoughtful OpEd by RPI fellow Andrew Miller in today's WSJ
My latest in @WSJ: Ask a futurist about self-driving cars and you'll hear about clockwork traffic and collision-free streets And we'll get there... but first we'll pass through decades of road conditions worse than today's (link in last Tweet)
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So much wrong in our sickness treatment system. We need an actual market to instill discipline and a focus on effectiveness and efficiency: the saddest part is how regulation has eliminated innovation and led to non-productive bloat.
100% true. Healthcare really has become a jobs program in the U.S. It’s the largest employer in many states, but the growth hasn’t been on the clinical side. It’s been overwhelmingly administrative. That’s the part clinicians complain about — we’re not seeing an expansion of
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“Call it a fertility abundance agenda — a plan to help women build the families they want, and on their own terms” @RuxandraTeslo in the NYT (@rootsofprogress fellow 2024!)
Young women do want children, but we also want to build stable lives first. In @nytimes I propose a bipartisan fertility abundance agenda, that enables women to have the children they want on their own terms, by making egg freezing & IVF easier to access. https://t.co/wOuwe1o0PJ
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Competition and price signals are utterly missing in our sickness treatment system. It’s a government made mess of regulations that drives up costs. There is no healthcare market in the US.
Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASC) deliver identical procedures at a fraction of the cost, yet Medicare pay hospital outpatient departments 2-3x more for the same surgery. ASCs operate on level ground: they pay federal income tax, state tax, property tax, and finance expansion
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My excellent Conversation with Sam Altman: https://t.co/YkUAJnglJm,
@sama
conversationswithtyler.com
How hard is it to change someone's mind, and could AI do it accidentally?
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“One day the toys will all be put away, the house still and quiet.” These words—from a video my friend @isaacfrench_ made for his wife—hit me hard this morning. 📢Parents of young kids, take it from me—a recent empty nester: The Good Old Days don’t feel like it at the time.
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The easiest time to have kids is before 40. But most Americans now can’t buy a home until after 40. How about we stop messing around with crazy rules against building… … so young people can instead mess around in their new homes and make some cute new Americans? 🇺🇸
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100% this! The reason we pay insane amounts for bad sickness prepayment plans is that we do not have a free market in health care.
There's a free-market fix for the pre-existing condition problem in healthcare: 1. Health insurance can be sold outside employers system on a renewable basis, akin to renewable life insurance. So long as you don't let converge lapse, you're covered for conditions you pick up
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Always: freedom and individualism create, authoritarianism and collectivism destroy. If only we acted on that truth.
Here's a longer-term chart. The simple story is correct. Capitalism created Poland's miracle, and socialism created Venezuela's catastrophe.
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I hate “open enrollment”: it’s the time of year when I am most angry because government regulations make sickness prepayment mandatory and affordable healthcare and actual catastrophic insurance impossible.
You have a card. You have “coverage.” But your deductible is $8,000 and your specialist requires prior auth that takes six weeks. Congratulations. You’re functionally uninsured. This is the cleverest trick in modern healthcare: Sell coverage that’s too expensive to use,
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Unpopular opinion: self-made billionaires are great. More people should aspire to that level of value creation.
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A great opportunity to meet with and learn from people at the cutting edge of science! I attended several times, and found this a great event! Roots of Progress Institute will be there, and host office hours, and Foresight is a great org. Worth attending.
Prices increase Nov 1 – get your tickets now! Our flagship event Vision Weekend is fast approaching! Join for talks on the frontiers of science and technology, office hours with leading experts, 1-1s, tech demos, unconference discussions, mentorship hours, a $10k project pitch
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Why is there a safe driving discount for car insurance but not a healthy living discount for health insurance? I wrote about that two years ago. Reposting as this seems timely now. https://t.co/OjVk03GhQw
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Exactly. The ACA made real, catastrophic insurance illegal! That is what needs fixing—make it legal to buy catastrophic plans with pre-tax dollars independent of employment. That restores cash pay for much of healthcare and aligns time horizons and incentives.
A good rule of thumb is that if you ever think to yourself "wait, why doesn't this seemingly beneficial AND profitable product exist?!" the answer is probably "the government made it illegal."
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@WallStreetApes The affordable care act actually accelerated healthcare's unaffordability. Democrats wanting to subsidize it further will not help. It will be tough to create systemic reform that will that will balance cost, quality, and access imo.
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