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> This is just wildly wrong.

Funny how it coincides with the very year the government started providing health insurance. Funny how the same thing happened when the government started providing education subsidies.

Funny how the inflation did not happen with medical procedures not covered by the government, such as Lasik eye surgery.

A longish, but good read about this:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-ame...

P.S. Antibiotics came out in WW2, not 1968.




>Funny how it coincides with the very year the government started providing health insurance.

Government provided health care was introduced in 1965 as part of Title XIX of the Social Security Act under President Lyndon B. Johnson, not in 1968.


Are you seriously arguing correlation equals causality? You don't think maybe you have the cause backwards? People desired guaranteed health care in 1968 because in 1968 there was expensive health care worth desiring?


Read the article I cited.




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