@jburnmurdoch@econtwitter.netOkay let’s give this thing a go.
In my column on Friday, I highlighted the shocking fact that Britons now have the worst access to healthcare in Europe, and this is causing worsening health
*1 in 6* UK adults needed medical examination or treatment in the last year but were unable to access it (due mainly to waiting lists), higher than in all 35 other European countries
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@jburnmurdoch this is why I wrote this paper back in January before the world went from crazy to proper mad and I am actually in the process of securing data access to help understand the structural drivers behind this.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/workingpapers/2022/twerp_1395_-_fetzer.pdf
@fetzert Yes! I read that at the time — great work!
@jburnmurdoch now the weird thing is what has been happening since... we cant get the paper published. Despite this work NOW becoming even more relevant than it ever was.
@fetzert A huge amount of the recent/current non-Covid excess mortality is due to the situation with A&E and ambulances (which is of course downstream from issues with hospital capacity and patient flow). I've got a piece coming out on this soon...
@jburnmurdoch Yes exactly this is what we had documented. Non COVID excess deaths due to worse care they receive.
I do have a very provocative hypothesis informed by personal experience that we should touch base on.
I do fear though that too rapid system change will cause a huge amount of instability hence the work I m doing with the BoE and on Mortgage Backed Securities. I just have to contend with too much crap on day to day basis.
@fetzert Looking forward to discussing that hypothesis on Tuesday!
@jburnmurdoch what’s going on in Estonia?
@yyarmar Discussed this over on the Bird App yesterday https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1588860737211883520