Norway is an outlier.

And no, that's not out of The Onion.

Direct government services typically have a universal mandate. The government won't be able to stop doing business with you.

That being said, a Git forge for a small/mid-sized company is not something that requires rocket surgery. Forgejo with an SQLite database and a daily backup to S3 would be more than enough for the majority of users.

I have a bit of personal experience here. I had a partner working as an endocrinologist, one of the higher-compensated medical professions. They were spending at least 1 _hour_ every day on calls with the insurance companies for prior authorization instead of seeing patients.

Some things are also weirdly broken down:

> Net Cost of Health Insurance Expenditures - 6.2% > Administration and Net Cost of Health Insurance - 7.4%

Why are they split?

I also suspect that they included some admin personnel cost in the physician/nurse salary. For my partner, their office employed a person just to deal with insurance. There is no easy way to break down these costs for small practices.

It's really the overhead costs that are so Byzantine that they can't be quantified properly. Hospitals have teams of coders, insurance companies have teams of counter-coders, physicians have to waste their time on calls with insurance companies, etc.

"Medicare for all" would alleviate a _lot_ of this. It already works for the elder population, and pretty much every senior has health conditions. So extending it for everybody would result in savings. This is a no-brainer from a purely fiscal point of view.

Another way to fix the mess is to lean on the free market side: prohibit employer-sponsored insurance. Completely. All the health insurance plans must be sold on the open market to everyone.

People with pre-existing conditions. They were literally uninsurable before the ACA.

The insurance costs are also skyrocketing in the employer-sponsored insurance.

That's because NY had enacted a coverage mandate even before the ACA, so insurance companies were forced to offer policies to everyone. This resulted in a runaway spiral where only sick people were getting insurance.

The ACA forced all large employers to buy insurance, greatly increasing the risk pool.

Have you considered doing stand-up comedy?

This works up to a point, and then it doesn't. And you're left with tons of inconsistently formatted data.

My company is built on protobufs from ground up :) We use it in the database, for remote calls, on the frontend, etc. The protobuf language is not great, but it's about the right balance between too expressive and too restricting.

And the best thing is that it's compact, compared to OpenAPI.

It behaved similarly but had a half-life of only a few hours. It required daily injections, and you could feel its effects wax and wane throughout the day.

And one thing that has changed recently: mobile phones and zooming. Every child now has an almost instinctive understanding of being able to find the correct zoom level on a map so that some feature can fit completely on the screen.

And now the key insight: you can zoom-in on a continuous function indefinitely.

So the epsilon-delta formulation for the limit of functions becomes almost trivially easy to explain. And you can build from there.

I understand that the notion of continuity in itself requires limits to define it properly. But you can do that _later_. I'm speaking from experience of helping a friend's child understand calculus.

So there's clearly something else going on.

And what makes you think that just building even more housing without understanding the underlying reasons can solve the issue of the soaring costs?

But they are not immediately needed to understand the limits.

Try to see how far you can get just with the epsilon-delta formulation of limits of functions.