X-Message-Number: 33074
Subject: Re: CryoNet #33069 - #33071
From: David Stodolsky <>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:16:14 +0100
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On 24 Nov 2010, at 11:00 AM, CryoNet wrote:
>> 
>> Previously, I suggested a 'pay as you go' plan for suspension funding. This 
>> would have the advantage of being able to raise rates to adjust for 
>> inflation or new technology, without triggering the disputes mentioned.
>> 
> Once the directors were bankrupted and locked up it would 
> be disbanded and the patients buried.


My proposal doesn't concern the suspension provider (eg, not CI, but IS). 


> David Stodolsky, wrote: "If we could get back to the growth rates we
> were seeing up to 2004, it would mean that prices could be cut
> sharply."
> 
> This is nonsense. Robert Freitas has performed a huge service (for
> free, I believe) by digging up the real numbers, which show that each
> additional Alcor member has imposed a net cost on the organization. In
> other words, growth has been a financial burden. I have been arguing
> that this is likely for years. There are no economies of scale during
> this "middle period" of cryonics, where the organization is not large
> enough to set up regional centers.
> 
> The Freitas document is here:
> http://www.alcor.org/Library/pdfs/EconometricModelOfAlcorFinances.pdf



As far as I can see from scanning the text, this is actually an argument in 
favor of my Proposal. It shows that severe problems will result, if Alcor 
continues with the prepayment funding model. My 'pay as you go' funding model is
based upon a totally different assumption.


dss


David Stodolsky
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