Is there a reference you can cite with corrected numbers? Honestly this sounds like excuse-making, especially when used as a jumping point into a decidedly partisan take (complete with scare quotes!) on the essentially unrelated subject of public health care financing.

The idea seems to have merit, but it's unconvincing to people outside your bubble and I'm dubious.

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nradov 20 minutes ago | parent [-]

You misinterpreted by comment. It was not partisan, and was based on reality and cold economics rather than ideology. None of the major US political parties have workable reform proposals that could actually be implemented and achieve net positive results.

This is a complex topic with no tl;dr possible. If you want to be able to participate in discussions on a rational, quantitative basis then a good starting point is "The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It" by Marty Makary, MD. It goes into the numbers far better than I can cover in a short HN comment.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/price-we-pay-9781635574128/

	▲	ajross 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> [my comment] was not partisan, and was based on reality and cold economics rather than ideology That's what all partisans think. Nonetheless you put needless scare quotes around Medicare for All, dismissed it as a "total fantasy", and, I guess, helpfully suggested I read a book by (literally!) the head of the Trump administration's FDA as a reference for "What Broke American Health Care". If that was all done in good faith, then you're in an echo chamber and need to escape.