I take no position on the broader issue of the article, but I was shocked to see that Isaac Chotiner (a repeat India-related article writer at New Yorker) failed to mention that Narendra Modi is an OBC in the context of describing the BJP's caste base. Truly, an egregious oversight and one that misleads readers.
OBC stands for "Other backward classes". It is a caste classification created by the Indian government based on certain criteria of people who are economically/educationally backward but who do not fall under the main backward class group (Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes - SC/ST).
> “The right-wing Hindu movement in India has historically not been associated with people from underprivileged castes, and those people have generally been less supportive of the movement“
My understanding is that BJP has come to power under an OBC wave, both in UP in 2022, and in the North 2019.
Both your quote and your response can be true, depending on "historically". For example in the US -- the rust belt used to be solidly democratic. Politics & groups can frequently realign.
This is awesome! Especially for data science, Medium has a stranglehold on reliable articles. Excited to see an alternative, and one that actually seems to work better.
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Karuna Health | San Francisco, CA USA | Full-time | Onsite
Without guidance, patients often feel anonymous, isolated, and helpless.
Around the country, teams of health guides, often called “care managers,” work directly with patients to guide them through the healthcare system. The impact these teams have is inspiring, but is expensive and difficult to scale.
At Karuna, we build software that automates common care care coordination tasks so that care management teams can get back to what they do best: being there for patients when they need help the most. We're led by repeat founders, advised by three of the most prominent healthcare leaders in the U.S., and backed by some of the best seed funds on earth (First Round, BoxGroup, etc.). Since day one, helping patients has been part of our DNA. One of our patients told us: "I wish you were available to me when I first started this journey, and I believe that this could be a game changer for battling [my] disease."
We're hiring for Full Stack and Back-end Engineer roles. Some details for both roles:
- Responsibility for bringing Karuna's vision to life. Your input is crucial to everything we build.
- Write code with a deeply technical eng team (co-founder / CTO and two product-focused full-stack engineers).
- Rapidly prototype new features, measure impact, and collaborate with experienced product lead to update our roadmap.
- Take us from demo to production level code as soon as we're experiencing traction.
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With all due respect, the premise of this comment--that consumers reduce costs by "shopping around" and being cost conscious--is being misrepresented. The plan type I believe you are referring to is a high-deductible health plan. HDHPs have a little success at reducing costs, but mostly at the expense of compromising quality of care. They can be a part of the solution, but they are not "the" solution as you put it.
“Most Americans in HDHPs are not doing things that can help them get the care they need at the lowest possible cost, and even those who are doing so could realize more benefits,” says lead author Jeffrey Kullgren, M.D., M.S., M.P.H., an assistant professor of general medicine at U-M. (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl...)
"Research published last year in the American Journal of Managed Care showed that switching to a consumer-directed health plan—an HDHP paired with a health savings account—did, in fact, result in lower outpatient spending. But the researchers, led by Neeraj Sood, vice dean and professor at USC’s Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California, found no change in spending on 26 commonly used, low-value services." (https://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/2018/6/hdhps-cost-sh...)
The proposal seems to be for an HDHP with an employer-funded HSA, which would remove the inventive to save that money for non-healthcare-related expenses. It's not clear to me that those studies are valid for that particular model.
Not sure what your sources are. It would help to cite sources, or at least come out of anonymity before blasting someone like this. That way we can at least evaluate your opinion based on your relevant background.
