 This is brilliant data-infused journalism: Washington Post correlates terrible credit scores in the U.S. South with the refusal of state governments to expand federally funded Medicaid, creating vast amounts of medical debt and bankruptcies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/17/bad-southern-credit-scores/ Republican ideologues have made their states even poorer, and their citizens far worse off in all kinds of ways. This is one of them. Of course, they're proud of it. 20 comments
@FinalOverdrive @dangillmor I would invert the question. Every other industrialized country has better outcomes per dollar spent on healthcare than the US does. That tells us that *all* models are superior to ours.    @dangillmor Added to the list of one more reality that we seem unable to persuade 1/3rd of country about. The only comfort I get is the knowledge that we have never really tried. We leave it to pundits and governments to do that. And they do it badly. We need to reinvent what we once called "activism" and make it relevant again. Stat. @dangillmor @richardmiller the GQP wants their cultists dumb and broke. Easier to control.  @dangillmor @chancerydaily Your last line is it. This is the plan. This is what they’re actually trying to do. @dangillmor Confirms a lot of what I had already suspected to be the case, but it’s still great work on the WP’s part.  @dangillmor As I read this article, I recalled a story I heard in NPR how Rockefeller funded research team determined hookworm was the cause of widespread "lethargy". Many times it seems a simple soln is avail for an endemic problem @dangillmor I bet there’s also a lot overlap between bad credit scores and places with predatory lending/payday loan places.  @dangillmor the conservative mind sees prosperity as civilizational ruin and they have since 71. They've poured hundreds of millions each year acting on that belief
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@dangillmor Indeed, this is a potential place to really sell the idea of single payer health care.
However, Mr. Gillmor, which model do you favor? Different countries do it differently.