[mlthoughts2018]

I don’t see any reason your comment would be accurate. It all depends on trade-offs. If the goal is to reduce cost, then you could equally argue to get rid of medicare entirely.

Clearly the goal (no matter what anyone’s separate normative opinion is) is to balance some complex tradeoff between costs borne by tax payers, costs borne by corporations (through taxes and through employer based healthcare for working age adults and their dependents), and a high level of access for all people.

Nothing about this censored data effect can say anything about the morality of different regions of that trade off space.

As to your second comment, this article is not massive news and it seems laughable to say it is. It’s just a blip in the news cycle, using some data artifact to drum up attention to something that is already well-known for any econometrician or health policy analyst.

Full disclosure: I personally favor nationalized medicine and welcome higher taxes across the board. Nonetheless I don’t find your comment to be accurate or valuable.