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Comment by _heimdall

These types of studies, and the goals they aim to support, always frustrate me as solving a surface-level problem rather than root cause.

The problem with US healthcare isn't who pays for it, its how damn expensive it is. As always there are multiple factors at play, my list would include corruption, lack of legal accountability/responsibility, and a population that is much less healthy than reasonable.

Go after any one of those and we'd make a lot more headway than trying to ram through a universal, government-run healthcare or insurance program. And yes, such a program could impact the above topics, but it doesn't have to and could make any of them worse.

parent _heimdall 2 months ago

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