I don't understand the financial concern at all. How could increasing the water supply increase the price? It only makes sense to me if the price is artificially low right now.

Environmental damage by a desalinization plant couldn't possibly be worse than overdrawing the acquifer -- the defacto solution.

That's an interesting alternative view I had not considered. I think it is debatable. I believed the generational contract to be "healthcare for 65+ with 20% copay, etc., no gov. expense spared" whereas you argue the generational contract to be "Medicare payroll tax of X% is constant over all time; spend it wisely." I would argue the first option was the original intent of the Medicare law.

> Fundamentally, children are an investment. They produce cash flow (taxes) from increased public health. The end-of-life are not

You could argue the same for the end-of-life, in at least two ways: * the end-of-life patient has already produced cash flow to the government, just in reverse order from the student * Good education produces a higher taxpaying adult, the investment you refer to. I would argue the assurance of end-of-life healthcare also produces a higher taxpaying adult.

I acknowledge the costs have gone up faster than wages+population.

Those end-of-life patients paid into the system, earlier in their lives, financing the cost of earlier generations of end-of-life patients. It would be unfair to change the social contract now.

In my opinion, it is no different from how adult taxpayers finance public education for children. It is a rolling responsibility from generation to generation.

You may be able to alleviate this financial issue (and not any other ethical issues) by phasing-in this policy change with the youngest generation of Medicare taxpayers, somehow.

Jumping onto ACA via unemployment exemption or Medicaid could require a transfer to a different doctor, etc. in the middle of treatment.

> happen much more frequently within the population

I assume the high premium reflects this frequency -- a higher frequency than many people realize. I do not assume the insurance companies are price gouging, but rather pricing their plans to break even/slightly profit.

Compare health insurer profit margin to FAANG.

COBRA is older than ACA. Special enrollment in ACA under the job loss enrollment period exemption may be a better option than COBRA.

Study: Average teen received more than 200 app notifications a day https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/study-average-te...

If the automatic mixing feature malfunctions to super-hot, then it could be risky...

New law: driver's phone must be in semi-disabled mode

The phone can already infer it is inside moving vehicle. The bigger challenge is, how to determine the phone belongs to the driver?

Say N passengers in car (including driver), each with cell phone.

When phone infers moving vehicle, it attempts to mesh with other phones in the vehicle.

If N=1, driver is solo, phone semi-disables

If N>1, phones ask users to vote on who is the driver.

Result: 1 phone disabled (Voting tie disables both/all)

The only inconvenience here is to a passenger with a phone-less driver.