[corethree]

Doesn't explain why medical costs and doctor salaries in the US are the highest in the entire freaking world and the quality of care is lowest among 1st world countries.

Don't go with your inclination. Go with evidence and logic.

I posted a reply to another person with this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37476974

It's not well known but the root cause is cartel like policies of the AMA. Becoming a doctor (only in the US) is one of the most gate-kept professions in the world.

[moribvndvs]

I’m not white-knighting for-profit healthcare in the US, but making unqualified conspiratorial comments naturally raises suspicion. You could have lead with this, especially if it’s not well known. I can admit I only had part of the picture; high cost and length of training is a factor, but I’ll buy that it’s a symptom of deliberate manipulation. Thanks for the links.

[corethree]

Generally very knowledgeable people know about this stuff. Give it 40-60 percent of the crowd on HN. I assumed that there was enough people who know about it to just say it outright.

Still not something I would call well-known though.

This country has plenty of stuff going on that falls into the "conspiracy category" but we now know is definitively true. Plenty. Everything Snowden revealed, the fact that the bush administration manufactured the evidence to push the entire country to go to war with Iraq. Plenty. I wouldn't turn my nose away when someone says something that seems "conspiratorial" given how much shit out there that has been verified definitively.

I get it though, stuff like area 51 captured UFOs will inevitably raise an eyebrow... it's hard to tell what's real and what's crackpot bs.