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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • $1.05 trillion is spent on Medicare and Medicaid and yet drug prices are soaring and healthcare costs for Americans are at an all time high.

    Meanwhile in Canada, in 2023 the federal government spent C$334 bn ($233bn USD) (source)

    And in the UK, the budget for healthcare is £201.9bn ($266bn USD) (source)

    Both Canada and the UK have free healthcare.

    So for about 1/3 of the cost of what the US government pays in healthcare, other governments are able to provide free healthcare to their people.

    The problem in the US isn’t that they’re spending money on social services. The US can solve its budget by regulating the out of control healthcare market. Other countries have done it, it’s clearly not impossible.



  • Nintendo issued an apology in 2020 over the issue, but argued that players who purchased the items were bound by the user agreement of the Nintendo Switch and thus ineligible to participate in a class action lawsuit against the company.

    I’m not a lawyer, but this seems suspicious. How would this work? If I purchase a product in a retail store, where exactly would I sign something agreeing to give up my eligibility to participate in a class action suit? Are they trying to argue that linking the hardware to your account carries over the restriction to any hardware used?