right. my point is last line of my comment.

most of the society doesnt operate in the way that you described.

Most of society also doesn't require paying for indirectly via employer subsidy (driving up the cost to people who are between jobs or have money by other means).

If your objection is to a system that operates differently than the rest of society, it's not clear why the hypothetical healthcare system is more of a bugbear than the very real one that doesn't resemble pretty much any other way that things get purchased. I don't really understand how you think spending time arguing against something that has very little chance of happening based on principles that ostensibly conflict with the actual version that genuinely does exist is a sign that people are not being misled by those with incentives to distract them in that way or otherwise are struggling to reason about an issue logically.

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i think you are talking over me with some irrelevant nonsense. did you reflect on why you are being downvoted?

	▲	saghm a day ago \| parent [-]
		From my perspective, what you're saying sounds like nonsense. I'm not sure why you're more concerned with my karma than I am, but since you're curious: no, I did not spend much time thinking about the one singular downvote my comment received. It's pretty common for people to downvote for any number of reasons (downvoting for disagreement in particular is controversial but not against the HN guidelines), so I didn't really read into it at all. Sometimes a comment I make that receives a downvote will end up with upvotes a few days later, and sometimes it won't; sometimes a comment I make that initially receives some upvotes will end up neutral or worse. At the end of the day, I comment because I have something to say, and while others' opinions on that is potentially useful feedback, and a single upvote or downvote is literally the smallest possible signal that can exist about whether what I said has merit.