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▪️Many people like to cite the stat that the US lags in life expectancy while failing to acknowledge that the US jumps to 1st place for those who reach the age of 70. That’s when the US system, with its increased choice and quick access to care, really starts to shine compared to the rest of the world.

▪️The reason the US lags in overall life expectancy has little to do with healthcare. The US far outpaces most of the developed world in homicides, overdoses and accidents. These, along with higher levels of obesity and diabetes, translate into lower life expectancy, but that’s hardly the fault of the healthcare system or its price levels. But if you make it to old age, there’s no better care than in the US.

▪️There is much wrong with the US healthcare system, mostly due to govt involvement, but the reason for the high prices is quite simple. The US has essentially socialized the access to and payment of care while also keeping much of the free market aspect of choice and quick access to specialists. In other countries, they keep costs lower by limiting choice and rationing care through long wait times for certain procedures. In the US we want it all (everyone covered and also lots of choices and quick access) so costs are higher.

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It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.

If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.

Feminist News apparently not a fan of Hulk Hogan, shocking.

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This is almost laughingly misleading, as it leaves out everything before the letter.

▪️After being repeatedly lampooned by the Smothers Brothers over Vietnam, Johnson finally had enough. One night at 3 am he called the head of CBS William Paley, demanding that he “get those bastards off my back.”

▪️Paley then asked the heads of CBS entertainment to get them to back off of LBJ. However, instead of backing off the Smothers Brothers doubled down, booking a folk musician performing “Waist Deep,” an anti-war song about a soldier being stuck in the mud while “the big fool says to push on,” clearly a dig at LBJ.

▪️At the last minute, CBS cut the song from the pre-taped show to the outrage of the Smothers. They continued to push the boundaries off and on for the rest of his presidency, with CBS sometimes cutting segments that they thought went too far. Basically, it was a soft form of censorship.

▪️It wasn’t until Johnson made his surprise announcement not to run in 1968 ...

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