Dr Glaucomflecken’s content is classic! But yeah I have to say it’s frustrating how many problems in the US just expound on themselves in a vicious cycle. People fear the healthcare system due to a lack of familiarity with it, which causes their communities to not produce doctors/not give enough patronage to primary care practices to thrive there, so instead healthcare practioners go to the cities where they’re wanted and educated, then because of all the brain drain to the city rural areas start voting against their interests, making healthcare more expensive and imposing restrictions on doctors, which only makes healthcare even more inaccessible…

I’m not sure what to say. Conservatism is societal cancer. It’s easy to want to throw up my hands and go ‘oh well, natural selection’ until I remember it’s often children, the disabled, and the immunocompromised that are first to suffer…