"Why can't we just control prices?" wonders a publication called The Economist in the second graf. This article doesn't meet the Hacker News bar for me. Why re

"Why can't we just control prices?" wonders a publication called The Economist in the second graf. This article doesn't meet the Hacker News bar for me. Why read a shallow, dataless, meandering, "could the grass be greener" thinkpiece when you could be reading and discussing a deep statistical analysis like: High US health care spending is quite well explained by its high material standard of living https://randomcriticalanalysis.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/high-us-health-care-spending-is-quite-well-explained-by-its-high-material-standard-of-living/ https://randomcriticalanalysis.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/high... The two follow up posts on that blog (Random Critical Analysis) are also quite good. So many surprising discoveries await us in the actual data, but I guess opining and confirming bias is more fun? If real journalism is going to require active philanthropy to survive, I'm funding the kind of critical analysis on open data sets that makes me think & rethink, not the kind of stuff that makes me go "that's just, like, your opinion, man." This article was the latter.