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  1. Jan 2020
    1. Are the rest of us just going to shrug?

      If those who die as an effect of losing their healthcare, no one will say a word about it

    2. We appear to be psychologically inclined to want to have more than our neighbors and to resent those who are given things that we aren’t given.

      People always want what they don't have

    3. Most Americans who have health insurance get it as a benefit of their employment

      If your health insurance coverage isn't enough to support you and the company that you work for provides it, maybe search for a different job?

    4. struggling to meet health-costs, other people who need health care are not your enemy

      free healthcare for the needy or even free narcan has nothing to do with the price of medication and would not have any affect on it

    1. if Ohio could bring its average students up to the levels seen in Massachusetts or Minnesota, it could expect average GDP per capita (compared to a no-improvement economy) to be some 5.5 percent larger over the remainder of the century.

      In order for that to happen there needs to be a small education reform and to stick to one set curriculum but even then it is not entirely likely that schools alone could raise the GDP, more jobs and such need to be available

    2. it must carry these students into completion of post-secondary schooling.

      With the high cost of tuition, how can it be expected for all of these students to go to a post secondary school?

    3. In all of the historical radical changes in employment, two things have been constant. First, there are great short-term costs to individuals caught in the affected sectors. Second, reductions in demand for workers in those sectors have been met by expansions in other industries.

      Will this remain the same though if AI become widespread with AI able to do many of the same things as a human can?

    4. Ohio more than most other states has already seen much of the potential for automation changing the face of employment.

      Why has Ohio experienced this more than most?