The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track

Re:The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track by exikyut on Thursday December 28, 2017 @11:06PM (#16027442)

Regarding healthcare, the problem is that, regardless of how that industry got to the point it's at right now, it's in the state it's in, and doing anything to jeopardize that would destructure a lot of things.

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Re:The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track by BurningFrog on Thursday December 28, 2017 @11:48PM (#16027613)

There are things that could be done to make US healthcare a lot healthier economically.

They are all politically impossible to get through our political system.

One important thing to understand is that the billions and trillions that are wasted are income and livelihoods for millions of people, and they have huge political power.

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Re:The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track by knowaveragejoe on Thursday December 28, 2017 @11:19PM (#16027488)

I think this nicely encapsulates the problem faced in a lot of facets of society.

I'm not sure how to address it other than to raise awareness, but that has its own potential to backfire unpredictably.

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Re:The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track by pishpash on Thursday December 28, 2017 @11:23PM (#16027506)

It takes leadership of a kind we don't have any more. The electoral process has been hacked and it's not really fixable without some larger dislocations happening first.

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