Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
by dragonwriter on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @04:54PM
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> I have heard the US is a democracy.
It is certainly not a direct democracy where each individual policy is resolved by separate independent voting, no.
> So then insurance-based healthcare is what American people truly want?
Pretty consistently, no, but there is not any single alternative that a majority of the American people prefer recently (for a while, as far back as the 1990s, there was a clear popular majority for universal single-payer), and more importantly, it is not the only issue that factors into people’s voting decisions.
It is certainly not a direct democracy where each individual policy is resolved by separate independent voting, no.
> So then insurance-based healthcare is what American people truly want?
Pretty consistently, no, but there is not any single alternative that a majority of the American people prefer recently (for a while, as far back as the 1990s, there was a clear popular majority for universal single-payer), and more importantly, it is not the only issue that factors into people’s voting decisions.