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Chris K. N.'s avatar

A good reminder that the opposite of truth isn’t lies, but confusion. Far more evil is caused by lack of understanding and muddled beliefs, than by willful dishonesty.

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Trevor's avatar

I've talked with people in my life about the healthcare industry as a whole over the last week, and it's abundantly clear that the vast majority have zero understanding of what insurance even IS. That's not even getting into the tradeoffs of single-payer, the system we have now, or an improved system, which I don't think they've even heard of. Insurance companies are the middlemen between patients and providers in a massive, highly regulated, and insanely complicated industry that very few people have any coherent framework for. Insurance is manna from Heaven that grants or denies medical treatments in the minds of the vast majority of Americans.

I'd say this is one of the main reasons Americans are generally supportive of Obamacare. The focus of the law was always about expanding insurance coverage as opposed to the cost or quality of healthcare, which is far closer to the root of the issue than insurance costs. Luigi very clearly had no idea why healthcare was so expensive, which is why he shot Thompson in the first place.

Ignoring the evil of the killing entirely, wouldn't it make more sense to kill someone more directly responsible for high healthcare costs, like an AMA official or a congressman? The guy wasn't just evil, he was a dumbass. Our problem is that because he's attractive people are going to be parroting this garbage for the entirety of his trial when they have zero clue on how to solve genuine issues regarding healthcare cost. This man is going to get more love letters from stupid, pathologically empathetic women than anyone in human history.

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