Yes, the US has a messed up healthcare system. It's terrible, but it's not something that tech can fix. It's a political problem, so this is politics and is disappointing to see politics at top of HN.
Huh?
There's always politics at the top of HN.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
I'd like to hear you out if feel this is a new or interesting phenomenon.
shrug, I personally have very little interest in politics, so I'm with you on this, but the fact is that, against the guidelines or not, these posts happen all the time, get upvoted and generate lots of discussion (and in this particular case, I found nthompson's comment interesting enough that it was worth checking the comments)
Besides, the guidelines also say "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate."
It's possible to have an interesting discussion on issues that have a political side, like health care, if you can live within the constraint of avoiding excessive partisanship and focus on the more abstract problem. Health care pricing is actually a great example and I've learned a lot from discussions of it on HN.
Survivor bias. You can't downvote an article, but there's lots of them that reach high comment/vote radio or get flagged and you never see them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Maybe I'm old and grumpy, or maybe I've been on HN too long but this comes up waay to often. /rant
Even if it was, my point stands. Offtopic? Politics? Downvote - no need to comment and derail the conversation.
Hilarious that you tracked that down, that's perfectly demonstrative of what I love and hate about sites like this. It's been fun arguing with you Internet stranger!