So you're basically a 40k dreadnought. 😂

I fully agree that 1,500 people is a perfectly reasonable sample size for getting a useful picture of what may be happening in a much larger population. I have no argument with the methodology on that point.

My primary issue is with the title itself, which literally says that 92% of people aren’t going to the doctor. That is not what the underlying data actually establishes.

I understand that websites, news aggregators, and media outlets need compelling headlines to get people to click, read, and interact with advertisements. But there is a line between making a headline attention-grabbing and deliberately phrasing it in a way that creates a completely misleading impression of what the study actually found.

If the headline requires the reader to read the entire article before discovering that the statistic means something substantially different from what the headline plainly implies, then the headline is, for all practical purposes, misinformation. That may generate clicks, but it comes at the expense of accuracy and public trust.

Yes, that would also be true. I was just trying to be as concise as possible.

The problem with American healthcare isn't simply that healthcare is expensive, or even that people aren't receiving it. The deeper problem is that we've built healthcare into a predominantly profit-driven corporate system.

And to be clear, I don't have a problem with people making money from medicine. There is absolutely nothing wrong with profiting from developing a revolutionary medical technology, discovering a new treatment, manufacturing equipment, or creating a drug that genuinely improves people's lives. Innovation requires investment, and investment requires the possibility of a return.

The problem is what happens when the entire healthcare system is subjected to the same corporate incentives as every other industry: maximize revenue, minimize costs, consolidate market power, increase shareholder returns, and treat the patient as a revenue source.

Healthcare isn't a normal consumer product. When you need a refrigerator, you can decide whether you want to buy one. When you're having a heart attack, you don't exactly have the luxury of shopping around for the best deal.

That's where the fundamental problem lies. It's not that healthcare is allowed to make money. It's that we've allowed profit maximization to become one of the primary organizing principles of a system where the consumer often has virtually no ability to negotiate, comparison-shop, or simply walk away.

I use the built-in grammar editor on Google keyboard because I'm doing everything off my phone.

So that's where you may be picking up on the AI generation thing.

But the words are mine.