Interesting conversation with Montana yesterday. We picked her up from college and it is about a 45 minute drive home. Montana is 21 and she is my youngest. I asked her if there was much discussion on campus about healthcare in the light to murder of UHC CEO Brian Thompson. Answer: Not much. Montana mentioned the high percentage of claim denials. I asked, do you think UHC should never deny a claim? Montana is very bright and is often careful when she sees my question as leading, so she couched her answer, but basically said yes. "No one should make money by actively harming another" she proclaimed. The assumption in that statement is Thompson would be aware that some UHC profit was tied to claim denial that in turn led to harm. But... I added... UHC is not some magical entity. All claims it pays comes from those paying premiums. Would not paying all claims require premiums to be raised?
I don't believe simple answers to these issues exist[1], but I must say I want my daughters to resist meme-based-thinking on these issues.
[1] I favor Medicare for All and a rights-based system wherein access is based on need not ability to pay. Wherein funding comes from a progressive tax system. That said, transforming the US system to any new would would be difficult.
assuming:
A1: That there must exist a correct answer and the correct answer is a member of the set (A,B,C,D)
A2: A correct answer is a choice with a value that satisfies the equation X= c/n where n is the number of answers to choose from, where c is the count of the times the answer appears in the choice list ,and where X is the value of the chosen answer
Conclusion 1: (B) 0% can never satisfy A2 , as both c and n are integers >= 1 ,and any positive integer divided by another is greater than zero. (from A2)
The Paradox, : No other Answer satisfies all assumptions. . While the answer would be 25% if it's count was one, the count is 2. As such you actually have a have a 50% chance to hit (A or D). Additionally you only have a 25% chance to randomly select 50%. To avoid this paradox, (A or D) and (C) cannot logically exist together in a 4-count answer set. (from A1, A2)
C2: Thus either (A or D) must not exist or (C) must not exist (A1, A2, paradox)
C3: If (C) did not exist, then (ABD) or or smaller potential subsets would remain.
C4. (ABD) all answers are incorrect B is always incorrect and A and D's c/n is not equal to it's X. (A2)
C5. No small subset (AD) (AB) (BD) (A) (B) (D) () satisfies A1 and A2
C6: Thus (A or D) doesn't exist, (C2, C3, C4,C5)
C7: Neither (A not existant) nor (D not existant) separately is sufficient to safisfy A2. As this would leave 3 unique (1-count) answers, one of which is zero and none of which are 33 and one third % (A2)
C8: Therefore (A non-existent) and (D non-existent.) (C7, C2)
C9: This leaves B and C as the remaining possibly existing options, and of the two only C satisfies all assumptions (A1, A2. C8)