Why You Should Happily Die For Big Pharma w/ Megan McArdle

In this Chapo Trap House clip, Megan McArdle thinks thousands dying of preventable diseases every year is actually for the greater good.
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"The 2020 presidential race looks increasingly like it will be the Medicare-for-all election, as an increasing number of Democratic primary candidates - including front-runners such as Sens. Kamala D. Harris, D-Calif., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., - sign on to the slogan. The policy ought to be an easy sell, given that Medicare polls so well and American insurers so badly.
Except no, it’s not going to be easy at all - at least not when vague talk about Medicare-for-all turns to the specifics of a system that could rationalize the myriad insanities of the fragmented U.S. health-care system and get a handle on its exorbitant costs. That would inevitably mean bulldozing most private insurance to build something simpler and more straightforward. Unfortunately, people are actually pretty attached to their own little corner of the country’s collective disaster."*
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