My “anecdotes” are lived experiences.
While Americans may be in general less healthy that does not excuse basic services like an epidural being administered by someone making over half a million a year with 3 months of vacation(again lived experience my literal next door neighbor is a doctor who I am very close to).
Or maybe the owner of my company receiving 60k a month from a local health group for “consulting about how they can implement AI into their business”. Jokes on them the guy can’t even use the office printer and shows up 1 hour a week. It’s because his wife is a high up executive. This fool literally asked if we actually need SCREWS to finish a job. We build tooling for manufacturing. Yeah boss I’ll glue it together.
Or maybe the time a customer told us to triple the quote and send it back to them because the medial manufacturing company it’s for “does not know better”.
The whole system is filled with grift but surely there is nothing we can do lessen the cost of developing a new drug.
End of story yeah we will never meet in the middle on this if you are actually foolish and greedy enough to believe it’s the only path forward and there can be nothing done to bring down cost. That somehow Americans can spend a two months salary in an afternoon at the ER and how that is somehow sustainable.
monday loaded with sell orders + initial fuel for a bear market (15%? idk) = rapid price decrease + panic selling.
this market is held up by glue, duct tape and hope.