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Re:Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare ... by jareklupinski on Sunday December 08, 2024 @04:06PM (#42360448)
> we have very short attention span

> News will move on

it's not up to the news (the media and their owners) to tell us what is important...

Re:Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare ... by tokioyoyo on Sunday December 08, 2024 @04:10PM (#42360491)
Maybe yes, maybe no, but people will need something new to talk about, so media will move on.
Re:Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare ... by KumaBear on Sunday December 08, 2024 @04:13PM (#42360523)
Unfortunately, i must agree with you. To believe the average person will care or mobilize in a month is naive. We have the attention spans of a toddler and worse we are susceptible to tribal groups which makes change impossible.
Re:Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare ... by jareklupinski on Sunday December 08, 2024 @04:12PM (#42360511)
cause and effect may be getting conflated. is the media driving people's attention spans, or are people naturally careless?

i'd prefer to think people care about themselves and others, and are otherwise distracted by trivialities to take their mind off of things, sometimes (hopefully less than 49% of the time) to excess

Re:Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare ... by tokioyoyo on Sunday December 08, 2024 @07:19PM (#42361954)
Yeah, you might be totally right! But in this specific topic, it really doesn't matter. That's much bigger topic of discussion. My point was, most likely people will move on and forget about it once a new hot topic comes up. Everything that could've been said online, has already been said. Markets and people have decided multiple times within US policy making that the way it is structured right now is what people want. It would change a huge outrage to start changing the infrastructure around it.
Re:Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare ... by jareklupinski on Sunday December 08, 2024 @07:23PM (#42361973)
> a huge outrage to start changing the infrastructure around it

that's my "tuesday" :) (infra)

Re:Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare ... by tokioyoyo on Sunday December 08, 2024 @07:28PM (#42362001)
Oh, it's my today :( (infra)
Re:Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare ... by jareklupinski on Monday December 09, 2024 @08:24AM (#42366075)
がんばりましょう!