You have lots of real time experiences to draw on about the pitfalls of our healthcare system, but have you drawn on the experiences of health care professionals for their thoughts? I find the episodes (and often the remarks about healthcare) frustrating as a family physician of 20+ years. There are some assumptions and inaccuracies that could be .... fact checked with some insider knowledge. There are no doubt massive failures in the approaches and policies in healthcare focus (driven often by insurance) as well as expectations vs reality of insurance itself, the cost, and bang for your buck so to speak. I too understand the draw of A "Make America Healthy" movement - just not the one we are seeing. Maybe have a primary care doc you trust along with a healthcare policy person on for an interview or something? Just know, healthcare providers are also very frustrated and doing the best they can.
Since we are struggling so much to make ends meet right now with my husband being unable to find a job for a year, we made the horribly hard decision to take him off my insurance. Just removing him, (my three kids are still on) will make me bring home an extra $800 every month. 😳
Oops. Hit enter too soon. Anyway - this comment really hit me. This. Exactly. I am out here busting my ass at my job and I’m also trying to figure out the best insurance for my family, navigating our public school system, and driving on roads filled with pot holes. Please tell me exactly what you - elected official - are doing other than trying to tell me it is someone else’s fault why everything sucks. Freaking do something about it! This is your job!!!
Actually, it’s not just a job. It’s public service. You are here to serve the public. You solicited my vote by telling me that you were going to do something about (insert problem here) and by telling me what passion you have for our community. So, please, for the love of God - at least try to fix the problems you are so adept at identifying. Ugh.
Thanks for this episode. I would like to hear more on whether the government subsidies are responsible for driving up health care costs. That’s a common conservative taking point I hear, but I have not had the opportunity to examine.
I am a receiver of subsidies, but I wouldn't doubt that it does drive up costs. If the government's paying, I'm insulated from the problem. The subsidy is tied to my income. I think it's something like I pay no more than 8% of my income for insurance premiums. If the insurance company wants to raise rates, I still pay the same and the government is on the hook for more.
My husband earns the main income in our household through his own business. We buy insurance for the two of us through the state market place. With the absence of tax credits + rate increases, the premiums for coverage on the same plan tripled for 2026, making the plan unaffordable. My husband has a chronic condition that requires multiple MRI's, ultrasounds, and CT scans every year, and we got some help figuring out the best plan. We ended up going down in coverage, so the premium only doubled . *eye roll* My adult children have their own plans, thankfully.
Re: spoiling for a fight- I wonder if this has to do with an increase in depression in the general population. I always remember that one of the primary symptoms of depression is irritation. My husband has pretty severe SAD. We have a very peaceful marriage generally, except in the fall when I can sense his combativeness rise on cue. I can track this in autumn like clockwork.
-A 10-20% difference in health outcomes because of insurance is a HUGE difference in outcomes. There is almost no other factor that is changable that would change healthoutcomes by 20%. I was very confused by this comment that this is not a big deal. A recent review of the evidence found strong and consistent findings in the research showing a range of positive outcomes related to being insured versus uninsured. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2881446/
-I will say that insurance and access are not the same. I actually believe it is an extreme moral failure in the US that providers are allowed to refuse to serve individuals on Medicaid and Medicare for instance. This violates the do not harm principle of medicine.
-A major driver is the administrative costs for private health insurance-fully 30% of the increased cost we pay compared to other counties is because of administration. I believe private insurance is a market failure. It has been proven to INCREASE costs, not decrease them.
I've become increasingly bullish about some kind of universal health care system since my last teaching job in Texas. They changed our insurance to a high deductable, HSA based plan and argued that it would actually be better for us, because the money they were saving as a school would be put into our HSA. And they did put A LOT of money into my HSA account, money that five years after moving back to Indiana, we are still finishing off. BUT it also put us into a system where it was impossible to find a good doctor in network. In fact, Texas Childrens was no longer listed as in network, so I could no longer use the BIGGEST PEDIATRIC SYSTEM IN TEXAS to find my kids a doctor. And I didn't like the pediatrician we ended up with, but they were close to our house and in network. Then, when I lost my teaching job, finding another teaching job instead of possibly trying something else became a priority because...health insurance. (For the record, I'm glad I stuck with my career, but it helped me realize how many people are trapped in jobs they hate because at least with the job they have health insurance.)
Now that I'm a public school teacher in Indiana, I'm in the pool with all of the other public school teachers in Indiana, but our insurance premiums keep going up and the increase isn't matching our salary increases. I'm not 100% convinced Bernie's plan is the best, but under his plan, my husband and I would be paying the same amount in taxes that we are paying for our EMPLOYER-funded health care. And we wouldn't have to worry about meeting a high deductible. And if I'm someday ready to stop teaching before I'm well into my 60s because I really want to make the writing thing work, I wouldn't have to worry about losing my health care to do so.
Our insurance system is holding people back from pursuing career dreams and crushing all but the super wealthy. And I told my nurse sister the other day that I really do think we are 5-10 years away from a single-payer system. I just hope there is a group of Dems working on a plan right now so they have it ready to go on January 22, 2029.
Finally, I thought the distinction between what we want health care to look like and what we want health insurance to do was interesting, especially related to outcomes. I don't need to see a specialist every time I visit a doctor. I'm ok seeing a PA or NP and then they can send my concerns up the chain. I think we should be building more birthing centers that give women ALL the options for childbirth. We Xennials and our Gen-X sisters are having open conversations about peri-menopause and menopause and I would like to see our system respond to our concerns and desire for a healthy and happy second half of our lives. We can do better on all fronts and I think this needs to be a constant "yes and" conversation moving forward.
I love how Beth makes a point of putting away other people's grocery carts (or 'shopping trolleys' as we call them here in New Zealand). I do it too (and straighten up the tangled rows of them that people leave behind. An every time I do it, I think to myself "Doing it for Larry" which comes from this reader comment on the Cup of Jo blog from a few years ago:
“I read an obituary once that said at the end, ‘In lieu of flowers, please return your shopping carts to the store. Don’t leave them all over the parking lot. That drove Larry crazy and it was his one wish for humanity.’”
I’m bummed that there wasn’t any discussion about the sizable profits that private insurance takes and the tactics that they use to keep their profits high and how that drives up the cost of healthcare.
I’m a dentist - so want to share my perspective on this topic but about dental insurance. First, dental insurance isn’t the same as medical insurance. It’s really a preventative plan - pays 100% for things like cleanings and X-rays and less and less for big ticket items until you use up your yearly benefits and everything becomes out of pocket. That yearly max has stayed at about $1000 since before I was born -1981. The average cost for a crown in 1981 was around $150.
I’ve been around dentistry since I was in college working at my dad’s office calling insurance companies asking if they received a claim as it’s been 3 months and the office still hasn’t been paid. These claims were sent electronically- there’s no way they didn’t get them. But they would lie and say no we never received that claim - please “send” it again. So we would. And often we’d receive the payment the next day - not from an expedited check mind you- regular mail that would be post marked before my phone call. Hence I knew they lied when I asked if they received our claim.
The funny thing is these checks would come on clumps - leading many people in the dental profession to believe insurance companies sat on these payments until they’d earned enough interest to release the latest batch.
As you can imagine dental insurance isn’t working well for patients or dentists. So many small business dental offices are moving to a subscription model. That comes with different challenges but if I wasn’t working at a big teaching hospital and I was a small business owner I think I’d have this model. I think it achieves what most people want. Quality affordable care for as many patents as possible where the provider can make a living and pay their staff well. Also allows providers to discount/write off things for people who can’t afford it without having to worry about commuting insurance fraud.
To my friends who have dental insurance through their work but don’t like the dentist that’s in network or feel it’s a bad value I always recommend instead of paying the premiums for dental insurance your better off putting that money away in your savings account and pay cash for your dental needs. Plus you don’t loose what you don’t use of your max at the end of the year.
Also I realize dental care is more of a luxury for a lot of people instead of “health care.” - and as someone who got in this business to help everyone- this is a moral injury that I experience every day. And I’m sorry my profession hasn’t done better.
This is very interesting and insightful. I had never thought about how dental insurance doesn’t work like health insurance. And there are some massive costs for expensive dental care. Do you have insight on why we don’t have catastrophic dental care coverage? I can afford the preventive stuff!
I think it’s because so many people need expensive dental treatment that the numbers don’t add up for the insurance company. For example most of the population (80- 90%) will have a cavity at some point in their lives. A lot of those people will have multiple cavities. But only about 40% of the population will get cancer. And it’s not like something that happens every few years in those people who do get cancer. The math doesn’t math - the risk is too high.
But for me, the catastrophic things with dentistry are things like root canals and oral surgery. That is when you have an outlay like $20K+ that can really bankrupt you, but also a very serious dental issue that needs addressed. Would love to see catastrophic dental insurance for those more rare but very expensive events. I can afford a cavity fill every 5 years and a cleaning-the other stuff is terrifying. My Ukrainian refuge friend needs some extensive dental work right now, has BCBS dental through the market place and has been told that it would cost her $40K out of pocket!
After some research: This article comparing dental insurance policy by country is fascinating. Dental insurance seems to be its own seperate policy in a lot of countries and they are struggling like us: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12424229/#s0070
I'm disabled (at 33y) & 'thankfully' sick enough to receive SSDI so I get Medicare. Much of the part B to help with coinsurance is more expensive for younger people because you on Medicare = disabled & sick, using more insurance. I pay $500/m in premiums (& need to search for a better part B this open enrollment). Thankfully (truly), I also had private own occupation disability insurance (was a pediatrician), so I have a solid monthly payment for my new job of caring for myself. It helps so much to have this 'income.' SSDI pays just $2,500/m & that's relatively high - couldn't live independently on that alone. So many issues with disability that actually incentivise me to stay sick enough to stay on SSDI - Medicare coverage being the biggest reason to not risk working above the substantial gainful activity. I hate it - so wish I was healthy enough to work but would need to leapfrog to so healthy to make enough to cover health insurance or get a strong job with good benefits.
I'm friends with a Dr at a large metro children's hospital, and he has told me that certain giant insurance companies will refuse to work with physicians who charge uninsured patients less than the rate they bill the company. So if he charges a parent the "discount with insurance rate" enough times and the insurance company finds out, they will drop him. Not sure if this is universal, but I found it appalling and valuable to understand some of the costs of things.
It can be insurance fraud if the coinsurance from the patient & the insurance payment is not the agreed upon proportions. I learned this in medical school. Then if you change the 'cost' of a service by the cash pay without insurance, it can make the insurance drop their reimbursement. It's a mess & so unfair.
Me, a person that works in an emergency room, just doing slow deep breathing during this episode. Expectations of health care…expectations of insurance…encounters with actual people…it’s fiiiiiiine. Washing my hair and heading to work.
Soooo much to say on this episode! One thing I hadn’t seen discussed yet was when Sarah was talking about the feeling of well I’m paying for this insurance so I’m “owed” services from it. I understand that perspective and yet I totally have had that perspective this year. I had a baby in May so we knew we would hit our out of pocket max and because of that we have intentionally taken care of other medical stuff this year and pushed for a surgery my 6mo needed to happen this year. I can’t wait to see what the bill for that outpatient neuro surgery would have been if we hadn’t hit the out of pocket max. Although, I will say from referral to surgery it was only two months which I was quite pleased with
I’m also dealing with all of this with my parents who their insurance provider is no longer carrying their Medicare plan next year and they are trying to navigate finding a plan where all of their drs (which there are many due to an array of health issues) are in network. It is looking like he is going to have to go with a national carrier for his Medicare plan and pay more for premiums AND copays so they will have to look at their fixed income as retirees to find more budget for healthcare.
Also the comments on this post are still the old way and SO much better than the new way on the video posts of good morning & more to say. Just a little technical feedback
I loved the outside of politics conversation. Probably once a year I listen to this commencement speech by David Foster Wallace that reminds us to think outside of ourselves. It's extremely poignant and maybe more relevant than ever. Please give it a listen! https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=pbh7qWKxr_gItEhI
You have lots of real time experiences to draw on about the pitfalls of our healthcare system, but have you drawn on the experiences of health care professionals for their thoughts? I find the episodes (and often the remarks about healthcare) frustrating as a family physician of 20+ years. There are some assumptions and inaccuracies that could be .... fact checked with some insider knowledge. There are no doubt massive failures in the approaches and policies in healthcare focus (driven often by insurance) as well as expectations vs reality of insurance itself, the cost, and bang for your buck so to speak. I too understand the draw of A "Make America Healthy" movement - just not the one we are seeing. Maybe have a primary care doc you trust along with a healthcare policy person on for an interview or something? Just know, healthcare providers are also very frustrated and doing the best they can.
Since we are struggling so much to make ends meet right now with my husband being unable to find a job for a year, we made the horribly hard decision to take him off my insurance. Just removing him, (my three kids are still on) will make me bring home an extra $800 every month. 😳
Re: Sarah’s comment “Why am I voting for you?
Why am I paying taxes if at the end of the day, I have to figure it all out myself?”
Oops. Hit enter too soon. Anyway - this comment really hit me. This. Exactly. I am out here busting my ass at my job and I’m also trying to figure out the best insurance for my family, navigating our public school system, and driving on roads filled with pot holes. Please tell me exactly what you - elected official - are doing other than trying to tell me it is someone else’s fault why everything sucks. Freaking do something about it! This is your job!!!
Actually, it’s not just a job. It’s public service. You are here to serve the public. You solicited my vote by telling me that you were going to do something about (insert problem here) and by telling me what passion you have for our community. So, please, for the love of God - at least try to fix the problems you are so adept at identifying. Ugh.
That felt good.
Thanks for this episode. I would like to hear more on whether the government subsidies are responsible for driving up health care costs. That’s a common conservative taking point I hear, but I have not had the opportunity to examine.
I am a receiver of subsidies, but I wouldn't doubt that it does drive up costs. If the government's paying, I'm insulated from the problem. The subsidy is tied to my income. I think it's something like I pay no more than 8% of my income for insurance premiums. If the insurance company wants to raise rates, I still pay the same and the government is on the hook for more.
My husband earns the main income in our household through his own business. We buy insurance for the two of us through the state market place. With the absence of tax credits + rate increases, the premiums for coverage on the same plan tripled for 2026, making the plan unaffordable. My husband has a chronic condition that requires multiple MRI's, ultrasounds, and CT scans every year, and we got some help figuring out the best plan. We ended up going down in coverage, so the premium only doubled . *eye roll* My adult children have their own plans, thankfully.
Wanted to add that we expected an increase, just not doubling or tripling!
Re: spoiling for a fight- I wonder if this has to do with an increase in depression in the general population. I always remember that one of the primary symptoms of depression is irritation. My husband has pretty severe SAD. We have a very peaceful marriage generally, except in the fall when I can sense his combativeness rise on cue. I can track this in autumn like clockwork.
"Honey, is it that time of the year?"
Just listening now:
-A big reason the US doesn't have universal healthcare was a huge PR campaign against it by the American Medical Association: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/why-us-doesnt-have-national-health-insurance-political-role-ama
-The ACA as originally written did require states to expand Medicaid. The Supreme Court struck that provision down: https://klrd.gov/2023/11/30/supreme-court-rulings-impact-on-affordable-care-act/
-A 10-20% difference in health outcomes because of insurance is a HUGE difference in outcomes. There is almost no other factor that is changable that would change healthoutcomes by 20%. I was very confused by this comment that this is not a big deal. A recent review of the evidence found strong and consistent findings in the research showing a range of positive outcomes related to being insured versus uninsured. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2881446/
-I will say that insurance and access are not the same. I actually believe it is an extreme moral failure in the US that providers are allowed to refuse to serve individuals on Medicaid and Medicare for instance. This violates the do not harm principle of medicine.
-The US is an extreme outlier in the cost of our healthcare per capita in the developed world.https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-spending-u-s-compare-countries/#Average%20annual%20growth%20rate%20in%20health%20expenditures%20per%20capita,%20U.S.%20dollars,%201980-2023%20(current%20prices%20and%20PPP%20adjusted)
-A major driver is the administrative costs for private health insurance-fully 30% of the increased cost we pay compared to other counties is because of administration. I believe private insurance is a market failure. It has been proven to INCREASE costs, not decrease them.
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2023/oct/high-us-health-care-spending-where-is-it-all-going
I've become increasingly bullish about some kind of universal health care system since my last teaching job in Texas. They changed our insurance to a high deductable, HSA based plan and argued that it would actually be better for us, because the money they were saving as a school would be put into our HSA. And they did put A LOT of money into my HSA account, money that five years after moving back to Indiana, we are still finishing off. BUT it also put us into a system where it was impossible to find a good doctor in network. In fact, Texas Childrens was no longer listed as in network, so I could no longer use the BIGGEST PEDIATRIC SYSTEM IN TEXAS to find my kids a doctor. And I didn't like the pediatrician we ended up with, but they were close to our house and in network. Then, when I lost my teaching job, finding another teaching job instead of possibly trying something else became a priority because...health insurance. (For the record, I'm glad I stuck with my career, but it helped me realize how many people are trapped in jobs they hate because at least with the job they have health insurance.)
Now that I'm a public school teacher in Indiana, I'm in the pool with all of the other public school teachers in Indiana, but our insurance premiums keep going up and the increase isn't matching our salary increases. I'm not 100% convinced Bernie's plan is the best, but under his plan, my husband and I would be paying the same amount in taxes that we are paying for our EMPLOYER-funded health care. And we wouldn't have to worry about meeting a high deductible. And if I'm someday ready to stop teaching before I'm well into my 60s because I really want to make the writing thing work, I wouldn't have to worry about losing my health care to do so.
Our insurance system is holding people back from pursuing career dreams and crushing all but the super wealthy. And I told my nurse sister the other day that I really do think we are 5-10 years away from a single-payer system. I just hope there is a group of Dems working on a plan right now so they have it ready to go on January 22, 2029.
Finally, I thought the distinction between what we want health care to look like and what we want health insurance to do was interesting, especially related to outcomes. I don't need to see a specialist every time I visit a doctor. I'm ok seeing a PA or NP and then they can send my concerns up the chain. I think we should be building more birthing centers that give women ALL the options for childbirth. We Xennials and our Gen-X sisters are having open conversations about peri-menopause and menopause and I would like to see our system respond to our concerns and desire for a healthy and happy second half of our lives. We can do better on all fronts and I think this needs to be a constant "yes and" conversation moving forward.
I love how Beth makes a point of putting away other people's grocery carts (or 'shopping trolleys' as we call them here in New Zealand). I do it too (and straighten up the tangled rows of them that people leave behind. An every time I do it, I think to myself "Doing it for Larry" which comes from this reader comment on the Cup of Jo blog from a few years ago:
“I read an obituary once that said at the end, ‘In lieu of flowers, please return your shopping carts to the store. Don’t leave them all over the parking lot. That drove Larry crazy and it was his one wish for humanity.’”
I’m bummed that there wasn’t any discussion about the sizable profits that private insurance takes and the tactics that they use to keep their profits high and how that drives up the cost of healthcare.
I’m a dentist - so want to share my perspective on this topic but about dental insurance. First, dental insurance isn’t the same as medical insurance. It’s really a preventative plan - pays 100% for things like cleanings and X-rays and less and less for big ticket items until you use up your yearly benefits and everything becomes out of pocket. That yearly max has stayed at about $1000 since before I was born -1981. The average cost for a crown in 1981 was around $150.
I’ve been around dentistry since I was in college working at my dad’s office calling insurance companies asking if they received a claim as it’s been 3 months and the office still hasn’t been paid. These claims were sent electronically- there’s no way they didn’t get them. But they would lie and say no we never received that claim - please “send” it again. So we would. And often we’d receive the payment the next day - not from an expedited check mind you- regular mail that would be post marked before my phone call. Hence I knew they lied when I asked if they received our claim.
The funny thing is these checks would come on clumps - leading many people in the dental profession to believe insurance companies sat on these payments until they’d earned enough interest to release the latest batch.
As you can imagine dental insurance isn’t working well for patients or dentists. So many small business dental offices are moving to a subscription model. That comes with different challenges but if I wasn’t working at a big teaching hospital and I was a small business owner I think I’d have this model. I think it achieves what most people want. Quality affordable care for as many patents as possible where the provider can make a living and pay their staff well. Also allows providers to discount/write off things for people who can’t afford it without having to worry about commuting insurance fraud.
To my friends who have dental insurance through their work but don’t like the dentist that’s in network or feel it’s a bad value I always recommend instead of paying the premiums for dental insurance your better off putting that money away in your savings account and pay cash for your dental needs. Plus you don’t loose what you don’t use of your max at the end of the year.
Also I realize dental care is more of a luxury for a lot of people instead of “health care.” - and as someone who got in this business to help everyone- this is a moral injury that I experience every day. And I’m sorry my profession hasn’t done better.
This is very interesting and insightful. I had never thought about how dental insurance doesn’t work like health insurance. And there are some massive costs for expensive dental care. Do you have insight on why we don’t have catastrophic dental care coverage? I can afford the preventive stuff!
I think it’s because so many people need expensive dental treatment that the numbers don’t add up for the insurance company. For example most of the population (80- 90%) will have a cavity at some point in their lives. A lot of those people will have multiple cavities. But only about 40% of the population will get cancer. And it’s not like something that happens every few years in those people who do get cancer. The math doesn’t math - the risk is too high.
But for me, the catastrophic things with dentistry are things like root canals and oral surgery. That is when you have an outlay like $20K+ that can really bankrupt you, but also a very serious dental issue that needs addressed. Would love to see catastrophic dental insurance for those more rare but very expensive events. I can afford a cavity fill every 5 years and a cleaning-the other stuff is terrifying. My Ukrainian refuge friend needs some extensive dental work right now, has BCBS dental through the market place and has been told that it would cost her $40K out of pocket!
After some research: This article comparing dental insurance policy by country is fascinating. Dental insurance seems to be its own seperate policy in a lot of countries and they are struggling like us: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12424229/#s0070
Now I am interested in how other countries finance dental care. Thanks for sending me down this rabbit hole.
I'm disabled (at 33y) & 'thankfully' sick enough to receive SSDI so I get Medicare. Much of the part B to help with coinsurance is more expensive for younger people because you on Medicare = disabled & sick, using more insurance. I pay $500/m in premiums (& need to search for a better part B this open enrollment). Thankfully (truly), I also had private own occupation disability insurance (was a pediatrician), so I have a solid monthly payment for my new job of caring for myself. It helps so much to have this 'income.' SSDI pays just $2,500/m & that's relatively high - couldn't live independently on that alone. So many issues with disability that actually incentivise me to stay sick enough to stay on SSDI - Medicare coverage being the biggest reason to not risk working above the substantial gainful activity. I hate it - so wish I was healthy enough to work but would need to leapfrog to so healthy to make enough to cover health insurance or get a strong job with good benefits.
I'm friends with a Dr at a large metro children's hospital, and he has told me that certain giant insurance companies will refuse to work with physicians who charge uninsured patients less than the rate they bill the company. So if he charges a parent the "discount with insurance rate" enough times and the insurance company finds out, they will drop him. Not sure if this is universal, but I found it appalling and valuable to understand some of the costs of things.
It can be insurance fraud if the coinsurance from the patient & the insurance payment is not the agreed upon proportions. I learned this in medical school. Then if you change the 'cost' of a service by the cash pay without insurance, it can make the insurance drop their reimbursement. It's a mess & so unfair.
Me, a person that works in an emergency room, just doing slow deep breathing during this episode. Expectations of health care…expectations of insurance…encounters with actual people…it’s fiiiiiiine. Washing my hair and heading to work.
Soooo much to say on this episode! One thing I hadn’t seen discussed yet was when Sarah was talking about the feeling of well I’m paying for this insurance so I’m “owed” services from it. I understand that perspective and yet I totally have had that perspective this year. I had a baby in May so we knew we would hit our out of pocket max and because of that we have intentionally taken care of other medical stuff this year and pushed for a surgery my 6mo needed to happen this year. I can’t wait to see what the bill for that outpatient neuro surgery would have been if we hadn’t hit the out of pocket max. Although, I will say from referral to surgery it was only two months which I was quite pleased with
I’m also dealing with all of this with my parents who their insurance provider is no longer carrying their Medicare plan next year and they are trying to navigate finding a plan where all of their drs (which there are many due to an array of health issues) are in network. It is looking like he is going to have to go with a national carrier for his Medicare plan and pay more for premiums AND copays so they will have to look at their fixed income as retirees to find more budget for healthcare.
Also the comments on this post are still the old way and SO much better than the new way on the video posts of good morning & more to say. Just a little technical feedback
I was so excited when I opened the comments and they were back to normal!!!
Yours are back to normal??? Mine aren’t 😭
I loved the outside of politics conversation. Probably once a year I listen to this commencement speech by David Foster Wallace that reminds us to think outside of ourselves. It's extremely poignant and maybe more relevant than ever. Please give it a listen! https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=pbh7qWKxr_gItEhI