In short, the American healthcare system consumes 20%+ of GDP, yet when it came time for the industry to step up and deliver it said it wasn't ready.

It's a lot like a community spending millions on fire & rescue and the fire & rescue department having the policy of not actually fighting fires or rescuing people from them.

"I find it very infuriating that the whole ostensible, stated, and confessed purpose of all this curve-flattening crap is to…spare the healthcare system the burden of doing its job. What is the freaking point of having a healthcare system if you aren’t going to use it when people actually need healthcare?

This is clear evidence, right before our eyes in real time, of what a gigantic self-licking ice cream cone our welfare state has become. Not only are they not bothering to hide it, it hasn’t even dawned on them that what they’re doing is shameful. They don’t even see the irony. They’re getting up on the TV and making their claims in utter seriousness, with straight faces and innocent as babes in the woods: We need to protect the healthcare system!"