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To: koan who wrote (391936)	12/16/2018 5:39:13 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543009

Koan, when you worked in Alaska, there weren't the same vested interests and sunk costs as there are in the medical system in the US today. The entire system is predicated on an employer-based system and a lot of highly paid individuals in hospitals, in medical practice, in medical schools, in insurance, in medical devices, in pharmaceuticals and even more--you are nuts if you believe that that edifice can be easily upended. You and AOC can yak all you want about other countries and how the US ought to emulate them, but the truth is, there are a large number of Americans who disagree with you, many of them with strong vested interests in the current system. We aren't the "Nordic countries," the culture in the US is very different, and that is what she has to work with. Philosophers from Aristotle to Machiavelli to Madison and Hamilton and of course in current times had noted that most people dislike change more than anything else and she is asking for a big change in a blunt rather apolitical way. The reason the Rs are excited to make her the face of the Democratic Party is that they decisively won the 2010 election by lying about the ACA and they will be happy to repeat that performance in 2020 if the faction that AOC is part of actually does become the face of the Democratic Party then. But you and she can be thrilled that you "fought the good fight." Whoopee.