Comment by alecco
3 months ago
Unpopular opinion: Evil and greedy insurers are not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is the socialized costs of sugar drinks, junk food, and sedentary life. The food industry operates like a drug cartel who starts the pipeline getting children addicted.
That combined with outrageously expensive magic pill healthcare. A situation partly caused because doctors can't tell patients they are too fat and lazy. Because feelings and hate-crime.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7524435/ (I think their 27% figure is way too conservative)
It's like the worst possible combination of free market capitalism/libertarianism with social liberalism.
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