It's helpful (and fun) to look at current issues through the lens of evolutionary theory! The ACA has some powerful aspects of selective fitness going for it. People won't stand for giving up things like protections for pre-existing conditions, drug price negotiations, and the other things. Conservatives talk tough about dismantling ACA, but that is politically fraught without any backup plan. They talk only of smashing, not moving forward to something better. There will be no building on ACA in the next four years. However, ACA has resilience due to enough good ideas within it. So, hopefully it won't go the way of the Dodo! But extinction has always been a part of the broader, sometimes brutal evolutionary process.
Thanks, Doug! ACA’s resilience is incredible and totally its best feature. That’s why, I don’t think it’s going anywhere and why we’ll be spared the fate of the Dodo 🙂
Gairik, your essay reminds me of someone explaining evolution at a dinner party, only to realize midway that everyone’s healthcare premiums have already gone up while listening.
The dodo analogy is both apt and oddly comforting? There’s something beautifully tragic about flightless birds teaching us about systemic collapse.
Keep writing essays like this. They make extinction feel less inevitable.
Duct tape can only hold for so long. As a part of that 36% full-time freelance crew, I can only wish for a healthcare plan that doesn’t feel like it’s one bad day away from falling apart. Really great, insightful read.
It's helpful (and fun) to look at current issues through the lens of evolutionary theory! The ACA has some powerful aspects of selective fitness going for it. People won't stand for giving up things like protections for pre-existing conditions, drug price negotiations, and the other things. Conservatives talk tough about dismantling ACA, but that is politically fraught without any backup plan. They talk only of smashing, not moving forward to something better. There will be no building on ACA in the next four years. However, ACA has resilience due to enough good ideas within it. So, hopefully it won't go the way of the Dodo! But extinction has always been a part of the broader, sometimes brutal evolutionary process.
Thanks, Doug! ACA’s resilience is incredible and totally its best feature. That’s why, I don’t think it’s going anywhere and why we’ll be spared the fate of the Dodo 🙂
Gairik, your essay reminds me of someone explaining evolution at a dinner party, only to realize midway that everyone’s healthcare premiums have already gone up while listening.
The dodo analogy is both apt and oddly comforting? There’s something beautifully tragic about flightless birds teaching us about systemic collapse.
Keep writing essays like this. They make extinction feel less inevitable.
Thanks so much, Kuriakin! Yes - the dodo analogy is tragic, but I agree it's definitely not inevitable!
Beautifully articulated, keep it up
Thank you Papa 💚
Duct tape can only hold for so long. As a part of that 36% full-time freelance crew, I can only wish for a healthcare plan that doesn’t feel like it’s one bad day away from falling apart. Really great, insightful read.
Thanks, Emily! Duct tape is an unfortunately apt analogy. Hopefully there’s more change soon!