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by hunglee2 912 days ago
"No matter how badly designed, it would be better than the current mess, and save several percent of US GDP"

Brilliant essay, with so many fantastic lines.

I am picking this one out because amongst the many perversions of 'the system' is that the crazy healthcare inefficiency is counted as a metric on GDP. Those thousands of wasted hours of wasted hospital activity, ultimately paid for by the tax payer, is counted as economic activity in the national economy.

What percentage of GDP is based on humans navigating broken systems in a 'pre-modern' way? Probably way too much