A study by researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health found that avoidable mortality rose across all U.S. states from 2009 to 2021, while it declined in most other high-income countries.
It’s hard to tell how pissed off people were about the tax penalty trying to nudge them in the right direction.
Clearly some people think they never need medical care, or that they can make that decision in the short term to save some much needed money. Statistics show they are very wrong, but everyone thinks they’re above average.
Clearly some people were vocal about complaining
but also very clearly a lot of it was partisanship, politicians stoking outrage to manipulate voters
I honestly don’t know how common it really was for people to be upset vs how common it was political shenanigans. As always, those shenanigans misrepresent and confuse the truth, so were those complainers even aware of what they’re complaining?
I’m not sure about the routing
It’s hard to tell how pissed off people were about the tax penalty trying to nudge them in the right direction.
I honestly don’t know how common it really was for people to be upset vs how common it was political shenanigans. As always, those shenanigans misrepresent and confuse the truth, so were those complainers even aware of what they’re complaining?
Ah, par for the course then. There’s a lot of that going around on a pretty regular basis unfortunately.