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A simple truth

by David Anderson|  July 26, 20217:48 am| 30 Comments

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Remember when three large companies including Amazon came together to try to disrupt healthcare and lower costs? That was too difficult to accomplish but Amazon’s founder was shot into space today.

— Samantha Liss (@samanthann) July 20, 2021

And this is the field that I’m going to be spending the rest of my career in…

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  1. 1.

    Cheryl Rofer

    July 26, 2021 at 8:14 am

    Difficult fields are the best. Welcome.

  2. 2.

    Baud

    July 26, 2021 at 8:16 am

    Would you like to go to space?

  3. 3.

    Anonymous at Work

    July 26, 2021 at 8:17 am

    All the doctors of work with will be given that quote.  Too many, sadly, for crochet.

  4. 4.

    Suzanne

    July 26, 2021 at 8:18 am

    Only dilletantes think that something needs “disruption” when what it actually needs is “competence” or “diligence”.

  5. 5.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 26, 2021 at 8:22 am

    At least you will never lack for something to do.

  6. 6.

    Spanky

    July 26, 2021 at 8:25 am

    FWIW, Jeffy didn’t quite go into space, he merely touched it. It’s another order of magnitude of difficulty to reach orbit, and at least another order of magnitude to escape orbit and reach the moon. To do so and come back with 1960s technology … THAT’S something Jeffy can only aspire to.

    The good news is that your job is in no danger of becoming outdated.

  7. 7.

    debbie

    July 26, 2021 at 8:28 am

    Tough to disrupt when your true motivation is your own bottom line.

  8. 8.

    Lt. Condition

    July 26, 2021 at 8:28 am

    Obligatory note that it’s only difficult because of politics and entrenched interests,  not because the problem itself is particularly difficult (seeing as we’ve got at least a half dozen better systems to choose from)

  9. 9.

    Brit in Chicago

    July 26, 2021 at 8:29 am

    If it were easy we wouldn’t need you to do it (and you’d be bored).

  10. 10.

    Chris Johnson

    July 26, 2021 at 8:37 am

    Sadly, he came back

  11. 11.

    SFAW

    July 26, 2021 at 8:40 am

    And this is the field that I’m going to be spending the rest of my career in…

    Now I feel deprived because my college didn’t have “Riding Dick Rockets Almost to Space” as a major.

    Or did you mean something else?

  12. 12.

    dr. bloor

    July 26, 2021 at 8:51 am

    Firing Bezos into the sun wouldn’t be a bad consolation prize for not getting health care fixed.

  13. 13.

    Al Z.

    July 26, 2021 at 8:51 am

    Universal Healthcare…. In SPACCCCEEEE !!!

  14. 14.

    germy

    July 26, 2021 at 9:13 am

    What if UFOs are just billionaires from other planets?

    — ??? ????? (@tlhicks713) July 24, 2021

  15. 15.

    WhatsMyNym

    July 26, 2021 at 9:14 am

    Well it’s been almost 30 years since Bezos started his online bookstore. They gave up on health care almost as soon as they started. Got to figure they weren’t serious about it.

  16. 16.

    raven

    July 26, 2021 at 9:19 am

    I just vacuum packed a passel of butterbeans, you could always do that!

  17. 17.

    SFAW

    July 26, 2021 at 9:26 am

    @dr. bloor:

    Firing Bezos into the sun wouldn’t be a bad consolation prize for not getting health care fixed.

    With our luck, he’d probably get there at night.

  18. 18.

    Ken

    July 26, 2021 at 9:29 am

    @Baud: I saw a survey that found that less than 1% of Americans had saved enough to build a personal rocket and go to space.

  19. 19.

    SFAW

    July 26, 2021 at 9:30 am

    @Lt. Condition:

    Obligatory note that it’s only difficult because of politics and entrenched interests,  not because the problem itself is particularly difficult (seeing as we’ve got at least a half dozen better systems to choose from)

    The political and entrenched interests are certainly preventing any rational implementation, but the “solution” (irrespective of obstacles) is probably not fall-out-of-bed simple. [Mainly because Americans have gotten used to getting what they want, when they want it, for what they perceive is low dollars, no matter the cost to others.]

  20. 20.

    SFAW

    July 26, 2021 at 9:34 am

    @Ken:

    I saw a survey that found that less than 1% of Americans had saved enough to build a personal rocket and go to space.

    And the damn liberals will want the government to pay for theirs, instead of saving for it, living within their means, etc. That’s even before they demand the government pay for the T-bone steaks rockets demanded by the  strapping young bucks  welfare queens  lazy/poor people.

  21. 21.

    Betty

    July 26, 2021 at 9:50 am

    @Lt. Condition: The answers are right there, but the power of the money of those benefiting from the status quo makes real change seem nearly impossible in this political environment.

  22. 22.

    raven

    July 26, 2021 at 9:51 am

    @Ken: fewer

  23. 23.

    Cervantes

    July 26, 2021 at 10:17 am

    It actually isn’t difficult at all. Universal, comprehensive, single payer national health care.

     

    Done.

  24. 24.

    Jim Bales

    July 26, 2021 at 10:20 am

    And this is the field that I’m going to be spending the rest of my career in…

    David,

    Think of it as job security!

    Jim

  25. 25.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 26, 2021 at 10:23 am

    @Cervantes: That’s easy to say, impossible to do in this country.

  26. 26.

    WeimarGerman

    July 26, 2021 at 10:33 am

    @Suzanne: OMG, I need to re-use this so often!

  27. 27.

    The Thin Black Duke

    July 26, 2021 at 10:38 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Problem is, too many people in this country have no idea how lousy the health care system is until they get sick. It’s too late by then, though. Narcissism is a hell of a drug.

  28. 28.

    Constance Reader

    July 26, 2021 at 11:27 am

    And too many people are getting distracted from the real problems and saying “Fuck the billionaires!” when instead they should be saying “Down with for-profit healthcare!”

  29. 29.

    Just Chuck

    July 26, 2021 at 11:37 am

    @Constance Reader: Fuck the billionares who are spending hundreds of millions buying legislation to keep us from getting health care or anything else we’re already paying for with taxes when they’re not.

  30. 30.

    germy

    July 26, 2021 at 1:55 pm

    Health insurance is cool cuz you get to pay a bunch of money each month for nothing & then if something happens to you, you pay a bunch more

    — Kevin McCaffrey (@KevinMcCaff) July 24, 2021

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