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by JumpCrisscross 182 days ago
> US government should track how many Americans don't have health insurance

"Source: The U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (data)". FTFA. You don't even have to read it. It's the source for the first graph. The one blown up before you even have to scroll.
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peterbecich 182 days ago
The OP is claiming the country should re-align its priorities to optimize this health-insured number, not claiming the gov does not already track this number.
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JumpCrisscross 182 days ago
> OP is claiming the country should re-align its priorities to optimize this health-insured number, not claiming the gov does not already track this number

They absolutely claimed the latter.

But even to the first, they didn't make any policy claims! They said it "would clearly show how poorly the economy is actually functioning." That's not true! You can have a fabulous economy (with a well-performing "GDP or...stock market") with terrible healthcare KPIs, this is basically a petrostate.

Healthcare is measured. And it's discussed. One can debate how the total-insured figure should play into policy. That wasn't that comment.

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bpt3 182 days ago
lol, you beat me to it. Some people are so eager to be outraged they can't even bother to read anything.
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IAmBroom 182 days ago
All three of you in this thread dependency committed that crime.

The first erroneously said the US doesn't track it, but the next two of you didn't read the rest of their post.

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bpt3 182 days ago
I read the rest of it as well. When the first statement is false, the rest of it isn't particularly meaningful.

It's clear to me that they were just looking for a launching point to complain about capitalism and didn't really care where that came from.

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