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JuniperMesostoday at 5:09 AM1 replyview on HN

People hate it when faceless bureaucrats decide that some health care expense is too expensive for the large faceless bureaucracy to cover, when they have a medical issue that they would like the large faceless bureaucracy to spend money on. Perhaps in that world, some insane guy with a back injury who's unhappy about the quality of his care assassinates the Secretary of Health and Human Services, rather than the CEO of a medical insurance corporation (and hey, a lot of people hate RFK Jr. anyway, so maybe that assassin still becomes a folk hero for doing it).


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matthewdgreentoday at 1:53 PM

This is already how Medicare works and it covers 70 million Americans. I’m not aware of any of these hypothetical violent outcomes being a huge problem for the program.