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> The government acts at the behest of the governed

US here. I remember a Princeton Study from 2014 that found no correlation between public opinion and public policy.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

That's absolutely true, but the direction in which public policy fails the will of the govern is predictable. Reforma that hurt a few people a lot, and help most people a little, tend to fail in politics. Things like tobacco legislation are minor miracles in a long line of lobbyists winning. So the way in which the US government will keep failing to match the will of the governed here is, if anything, towards the insiders that are ruined by anything resembling health care efficiency.

I suspect that the disruption will come outside of the regulatory realm: As prices go high enough it's cheaper to get the same treatment in Mexico, or have an AI be your primary care provider, the US system will fall. It will not be this year, and probably not this decade, but eventually such level of waste crashes big.

The US government is arranged to ensure that, the Senate and Electoral College both give significant electoral weight to rural areas in the Midwest. Reading the writing from the time that's intentional and by design.

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