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from the today-I-learned-that-gaming-disorder-is-real dept.
Increase in gaming disorder in UK forcing people into private treatment at home or abroad
Jan Willem Poot, 40, a former addict turned entrepreneur who set up the clinic, said it was seeing a 20-30% annual increase in people – mainly young men – coming in with gaming dependency. "Also, in the beginning it was eight to 10 hours of playing but at this moment we have got kids who game 18-19 hours a day. They sometimes go weeks without showers and are not eating."
Gaming disorder is defined by the World Health Organization as a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behaviour so severe that it takes "precedence over other life interests". Symptoms include impaired control over gaming and continuation or escalation of gaming despite negative consequences.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday August 20 2019, @01:15AM (1 child)
Notice the use of the phrase "other countries". The US has already tried universal coverage for selected groups via the Veterans Administration and Medicaid with rather terrible results. The failure is more than just not having the right sort of high level system. My view is that a market-based healthcare system worked fine for the US in 1970 (and would be pretty good compared to the health care systems of today). What changed since is far more than just slightly more rapacious insurance companies. It's many decades of good intentions that caused more harm than they fixed.
As I see it, eventually the US system will fail, somewhat more universal coverage or not. Then it'll naturally degrade to sucks-to-be-you healthcare for the masses. And I can't say that will worse than the present or your proposed change.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 20 2019, @11:23PM
That is not universal coverage; that's a bandaid that leaves rapacious, price-gouging insurance companies in charge. Again, the facts speak for themselves: Other countries have tried universal healthcare systems, and they've worked far better than any "market-based" system. Even the countries that have comparatively more market-based healthcare systems such as Singepore have to employ hefty regulations to make it run smoothly. There is no evidence whatsoever that some complete free market system would work.
Except for the tens of millions of people not covered, you mean. If you ignore the countless issues it had, then sure, you can say it was great.