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In my experience, choices to label opposition as either reductive or overly complex are largely rhetorical. They don't pass the validity test.

Perhaps we should ask borrow the "magic wand" that seems to exist for every other country. Maybe they can lend us theirs since that's apparently how realistic a system that does not bankrupt people is.

Sadly, it doesn't seem equally possible or realistic to build a system where CEO's aren't revenge murdered.




Precisely zero countries have dismantled a 1.6 trillion dollar, 80 year old health insurance system.

That's not to say it's impossible to do, or that we shouldn't. But, an economic, political, and social mass of this magnitude doesn't turn on a dime.

Other places had the luxury of solving the problem much earlier and on much smaller scales.




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