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I wonder what the effect on quality-adjusted life years [0] is from the shooting. -30 for the shooter, but how many positive from improved health insurance policies? Probably thousands.

Perhaps someone will figure that out and publish a journal article called "Decreasing all-cause mortality through hyper-local plumboid injection".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year

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> but how many positive from improved health insurance policies? Probably thousands

how did you come to this conclusion? what if it actually gets _worse_? What if the media attention blows over, the good or neutral actors end up eating the blame, some savvy corporations/politicians with skilled PR end up using the public anger to enrich themselves & make things worse for the public, and people still don't understand why the system isn't working?

I haven't seen any good information on what actually is the root cause and what are the solutions that will fix everything. I don't think this is a matter of greedy people blocking easy/obvious solutions.

it has brought to the attention of CEOs the fact that even though the individual shooter might be apprehended, the CEOs who push too far over the line might not make it home from their next shareholders meeting.

I think this is a unlikely outcome. The CEOs will hire more personal security and the company will pay for it. The job of a CEO is to maximize profit of the company, this is written in their contracts. So this is what they will do.

It's not that clear cut. Leaders have known and written for millennia on how tenuous their grasp is.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damocles#Sword_of_Damocles

that just means they will be prisoners in their own lives. no more just walking down the street, exploring places by yourself, meeting friends at small coffee shops at short notice - now they need to spend on security, always wait for them to check out the place first, always looking over their shoulders for traitors. it's the sort of thing that's driven kings mad.

They are not robots and they are not following an algorithm. They have plenty of flexibility and creativity to maximize shareholder value.

They're also easy to freak out - even Mr. Free Speech Absolutist got shaken by the news.

Descending into barbarism has its costs as well.

US healthcare is barbaric

I think you're quite wrong about that, although of course it could be improved.

That's assuming policies actually improve, I wouldn't be so optimistic...

"The firings will continue until morale improves"

Won't somebody please think of the board members who will now be forced to buy smaller yachts!

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