Our system of government has been amazingly robust for hundreds of years, but it fails when you have these two conditions:
1. An issue is too complicated for the public to understand.
2. Big companies are willing to distort the system for profits.
That situation describes the healthcare debate going on in the United States right now. Our undersized brains can’t grasp all the nuances and implications of any particular healthcare plan. And when our brains are confused, we default to our biases (usually party loyalty) or to whatever metric is simple enough to understand. With healthcare, the one metric that matters is how many people will be covered compared to Obamacare. If the Republican plan covers more people, it will pass. If not, it will fail.
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