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Yep, as a teenager I thought thought of things like universal health care and how Obama didn't do enough.
As an adult I realize that while I still want it, changing the entire medical industry in the US cannot be done in one term of a president, it's a long slow process, and if everyone was on board and everything got passed immediately it would still take at least 30 years to turn the ship around so to speak.
I still want it and of course think it's a good idea, but as a youth I was able to overlook things like everyone in the insurance industry being out of jobs and logistics changes and normalizing higher taxes and...
Everyone in the insurance industry being out of jobs would frankly still be a bit of a plus. It's a fundamentally parasitic industry that is not actually necessary. That's a lot of talent that could go to other industries, it's not like unemployment has been any kind of problem in recent years. And prices would ultimately go down without the extra middleman industry.
Agreed, but the point being that it takes more than a day or a year to upend an entire industry.