Yeah… well that’s what happens when the State intervenes in the free market, whether that be the “Affordable” Care Act, or the airline industry, or the automotive industry, corn subsidies, and the list goes on. They all have “unintended” consequences.

And to this point in particular, it’s the reason why private (read sovereign) medical practices have been driven out of business, and have coerced well-intended medics to join Big Harma systems as contractors, and only be allowed to push whatever they “allow” or else risk being thrown out, or lose their licenses. Don’t you dare deviate from the algorithmic medicine we designate, or you’ll get what’s coming. Reason why you get billed $100 for a damn 2¢ bandage.

Rockefeller medicine at its best. Goes all the way back to the Flexner Report of 1910. From making the barrier of entry into practicing insurmountable, to dismissing all other disciplines as quackery (holistic, massages, chiropractic, herbology, acupuncture, etc.) They treat the body as if it’s a car with isolated systems that have nothing to do with one another (A/C, electrical, exhaust, tires), and the main goal is to make a lifetime customers… not kill you, but barely keep you alive while they “treat” the dis-ease by tackling the symptom, not the underlying root cause.

At the end of the day, people need to stop delegating aspects of their lives to third-party “experts” (education to professors, health to doctors, safety to the police, finances to Wall Street, privacy to Big Tech), and take responsibility and accountability of their lives and their loved ones. But alas… sheep always prefer to be herded.

I find it even more alarming that people EXPECT the State to provide them with healthcare, let alone trust them with it. At a minimum, one of the State’s only goals is to protect (not give) our rights… healthcare is not a right.

It boggles the mind to see the same folks that believe in self-sovereignty and adopting Bitcoin as a way to escape the fiat BS we were born into, not take that same self-sovereign approach with other aspects of their lives like education, health, etc.

Ain’t that Solo Satoshi?

I've heard some use a privacy-first stablecoin like Freedom Dollar (fUSD) to mitigate risks. I'm not entirely sure on the mechanics since I do t have merchant experience.

I'm sold!

On iOS? If so, how've you gone around its limitations?

Vatican City, perhaps?

We used to have a little bugger like this one our mini market to run errands. Specifically, the Daihatsu Hijet (7th, maybe 8th generation). Manual transmission, 3-cylinder engine. Dang I had fun in that little thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daihatsu_Hijet

The 🧃🙄

One’s for the normies, the other for the plebs.

Europeans be like:

Whoa there buddy. You’re almost starting to sound like a bonafide Statist. Next thing I may hear is “why go through the hassle of carrying your own gun? I mean, you can always call 112 (or 911).”

Fug that line of reasoning. Protect your privacy, your life (and loved ones), your property, your energy, your time, and your finances. When seconds count, the statist cops are minutes away.