I think there is a circular logic that smart people can get lured into, its like that "I don't know what x is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask" meme.
It starts with a politician or media host saying something like "we can provide every american quality healthcare". Its said with such confidence that smart people believe there is a plan whereby this could be accomplished, we are going to tax all of X, we are going to invest in Y infrastructure, we are going to hire Z people.
There is no such plan. They took the median cost of healthcare that a hospital pays, and they multiplied it by the population. There is no accounting for the pricing system, there's no interest into how breakthroughs happen, there's no hard look at unnecessary cost.
So yes, they do believe it, and they are either dumb as a rock, lying, or repeating something said by a person with more influence than them.
npub1aw…nyrgs
2023-03-25 09:32:44
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