also god he looks like a smug 12 year old what's up with this guy

It's impossible to be an informed consumer in health care. It's a byzantine structure of unknown costs, prior authorizations, cost shifting billing, with the highest costs in the world, because elected officials won't do what needs to be done. So no, that won't make people informed consumers.

nothing says fiscal conservatism like doing things that everyone says you can't or shouldn't do and wasting money to defend a position that does fuck all for normal people

what if we, locally and nationally, elected politicians with a basic understanding of how things work and surround themselves with experts working together to materially improve our communities holy shit what a concept

Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.

And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.