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You're close but still a bit strawmanny. If we want poor kids to have better dental outcomes we should do more than just flouridate. We should find out why the poor have worse dental outcomes and address the root problem(s), which I would imagine in the US is something like soda consumption or lack of dentists in poor areas.

I've never thought much about it as tap water tastes nasty to me, but it does seem like legit scientists are still studying the issue, as of 2023.[0] Course we over produce scientists and so much of science is low efficiency, but they're getting funding and being published none-the-less.

0 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089203622...

The "let's have a nuanced debate and use reason and intellect" bias is useful in most contexts. Bold claims, hot takes, that's the future. Citations can be ai'd now.

If it's a severe mocking it can begin to demoralize a people and make them Canadian.

Not much story here. States can't or don't want to track people outside the state, and it's tricky handling children of divorced parents who span states. There is little incentive for consumers to do their official duty by disenrolling, or for states to do their part and audit (it could decrease the federal funds they get to administer).

It also says much of the double counting was due to,

"The federal government’s emergency pandemic rules made it much harder for states to disenroll beneficiaries. The Journal’s analysis found that double payments nationwide increased from $814 million in 2019 to $2.1 billion in 2021. The emergency rules were revoked in 2023."

What's the total size of medicaid budget again?

We do need better systems to track, audit, and control but all of that is contrary the strong populist thirst for making disenrollments harder, and everything more inclusive.

The market is very wrong if that's the case you can get rich easy buying BA at a discount. Please do!

If what you have is a hammer, shall we surprise that it all sounds like nails?

Are pre-emptive blanket pardons traditional? I can see how Trump or some future president might abuse that, especially if autopen is allowed so that thousands or even tens of thousands can be pardoned at once to prevent subsequent political lawfare.

If only there was a credible news agency or group of influential elites that could have given some pushback against the "misleading" of the public, I would gladly subscribe. It seems like that may be an even bigger problem than GoF lab leaks; an unintelligent intelligentsia.

A lot of the change in behavior probably corresponds to more work from home and social isolation. I haven't been to a sit down restaurant in over 5 years, but I still grab a to go meal about once a quarter. With inflation, I'm less price sensitive too when I buy my quarterly big mack, so I go for it and supersize, may get mcnuggets too. So work from home and inflation probably factor in.

It's not a very good article, but it hints at another angle, the problem is not only lack of funding growth, it is that modernizing and keeping up with the ever expanding mandates is not possible without major reinvestment. If they want great precision about Guatemalen migrant single mothers in the CPS because that is now a important group to gather data on, it costs a lot. (Worth noting too that these expanding mandates are often very political in nature and actually undermine the enterprise as adding too many features to software without regard to tech debt will often tend to do.)

What should strike many readers: zero mention of efficiency gains or emerging methods made possible by LLM, uav, and other modern tech. A tech savvy reader should wonder about that stuff.

One of the best sales pitches for increasing funding is specifically this, modernizing costs money in the next 5 years but saves much, much more money longer term. Is it not the right time for robot census workers?