Katherine Mangu-Ward
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And we are being...
you know, totally deprived of that information in the healthcare.
Well, that's where we're being gaslit.
And we're being lied to.
We're being given sort of seemingly true information, none of which is really true.
And so, of course, we all think we're losing our minds.
So I think, again, we don't have to stretch that hard to imagine a world where we know the prices of things and then make decisions about how to consume them based on those prices.
That's all the other market.
Like that's what I do when I think about whether I'm going to buy books or food or even dental care, where we at least can sort of see those prices.
Right.
I mean, that market is is has its flaws, but is much more efficient.
And of course, people are going to say, well, what about people who can't afford it?
And that's what a safety net might look like is for the for the people who really can't pay for their blood pressure medicine.
What do we do?
And we have as a society also a lot of answers to that.
Yeah.
So I think there are a couple of things going on there.
One is, um,
You know, we do allow that in other markets.
So just for example, auto insurance, auto insurance rates are set to reflect a lot of things about you, including your demographics, including where you live and your driving behavior.