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I'm incurably curious about many aspects of this journey of ours. Here are a few noteworthy items I've stumbled across that I want to remember so I can revisit them from time to time.

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"Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated."
– Albert Einstein, from a short speech he gave to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin, in 1932, which can be found in Einstein: A Life In Science by Michael White and John Gribbin, Dutton, 1994, pages 262 – 263: via Internet Archive⩘ .

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Universal healthcare

A photo of the sign above emergency entrance of a hospital. The word EMERGENCY is rendered in large, red, capital letters.
Photo by Pixabay⩘  via Pexels

From the Yale School of Public Health:

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.…

The model identified five major sources of savings: lower pharmaceutical prices, Medicare-level payments to providers, reduced administrative overhead, less fraudulent billing, and fewer avoidable emergency department visits and hospitalizations. Even under more conservative assumptions about drug prices and fraud reduction, the researchers projected that the savings would reach at least $663 billion a year. Both figures account for an estimated $304 billion in additional spending to meet unmet medical needs, reimburse care that now goes unpaid, and provide universal dental coverage.

But the CEOs and stockholders of the big healthcare companies and venture capitol leeches would likely make less profit, so I doubt our spineless politicians will ever even consider this kind of proposal.

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects⩘  by y Matt Kristoffersen, Yale School of Public Health, Aug 13, 2026.

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