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The idea of making health care portable isn’t really what makes this video awesome, though the video is pretty funny. Rather this video’s part in the growing swell of reasonable alternatives to a purely market-based health care system, which has by all accounts been proven a failure, is what is truly awesome.

For a confluence of reasons that individually would not be damning, we now have a health care system that provides at best adequate care to people with insurance (which comes at a higher price than citizens of most other developed nations pay) and no systemic care to people without insurance. The steep basic costs of simple care are a contributing factor in Americans’ increasingly unhealthy lifestyles, which in turns fuels a greater demand for health care that more and more people cannot afford. We are in a bad place, charting a course for a worse place, and the influx of (often radically) different health care systems is welcome.

I’m not sure what the answer is, but I’m reasonable sure this system is it’s death knells and I’d prefer we didn’t all die with it.