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>Healthcare coverage works as a intersection operator in such a way
>that the more providers there are, the less area of the intersection
>of coverage. I leave it to the math crew to explain how this
>works---something about the growth of the excluded middle, or the
>decrease of the included middle.
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>It means with each additional provider, the area of the neighborhood
>decreases with each additional intersection. It does not increase. So
>it is possible with an infinite number of intersecting providers, the
>limit with each additional provider added, approaches zero
>coverage. Ah, the miracle of analytical point sets.
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>Whether the healtcare industry understood this principle and acted on
>it accordingly is not as important as the fact they intuited it as the
>best policy they could pursue.
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Ah. Fantastic post! And another wrinkle on the underside of "choice."
Joanna