Here are the sources for each claim :
Obama's "shrunk almost down to zero" quote (NPR, April 7, 2015):
npr.org/transcripts/43…
timesofisrael.com/obama-deal-to-…
Deal terms, 300kg cap, 3.67%, sunset clauses: the JCPOA text itself and the AP reporting in the Times of Israel link above cover the caps. For sunsets beginning to lift in 2025, the ASPI Strategist analysis of Albright and Burkhard's archive book describes the clauses removing nearly all enrichment limitations beginning in 2025.
2018 nuclear archive raid, Amad Project, preservation after 2003:
isis-online.org/isis-reports/h…
isis-online.org/isis-reports/d…
isis-online.org/isis-reports/d…
IAEA uranium traces at undeclared sites and Iran's failure to explain:
isis-online.org/isis-reports/t…
egyptindependent.com/iran-fails-to-…
IAEA comprehensive non-compliance report of May 31, 2025, and the 408.6 kg stockpile at 60%:
isis-online.org/isis-reports/d…
The $1.7 billion cash payment and roughly $100 billion unfrozen: the $1.7B settlement, $400M principal plus $1.3B interest, is State Department and Treasury public record from January 2016, reported by AP, WSJ, and Reuters at the time. The $100B figure comes from Treasury Secretary Lew's 2015 congressional testimony, with the administration estimating $50-56B readily usable.
Obama's "shrunk almost down to zero" quote (NPR, April 7, 2015):
npr.org/transcripts/43…
timesofisrael.com/obama-deal-to-…
Deal terms, 300kg cap, 3.67%, sunset clauses: the JCPOA text itself and the AP reporting in the Times of Israel link above cover the caps. For sunsets beginning to lift in 2025, the ASPI Strategist analysis of Albright and Burkhard's archive book describes the clauses removing nearly all enrichment limitations beginning in 2025.
2018 nuclear archive raid, Amad Project, preservation after 2003:
isis-online.org/isis-reports/h…
isis-online.org/isis-reports/d…
isis-online.org/isis-reports/d…
IAEA uranium traces at undeclared sites and Iran's failure to explain:
isis-online.org/isis-reports/t…
egyptindependent.com/iran-fails-to-…
IAEA comprehensive non-compliance report of May 31, 2025, and the 408.6 kg stockpile at 60%:
isis-online.org/isis-reports/d…
The $1.7 billion cash payment and roughly $100 billion unfrozen: the $1.7B settlement, $400M principal plus $1.3B interest, is State Department and Treasury public record from January 2016, reported by AP, WSJ, and Reuters at the time. The $100B figure comes from Treasury Secretary Lew's 2015 congressional testimony, with the administration estimating $50-56B readily usable.
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This is all true, and it's verifiable from the primary analysis of the archive itself. Iran developed and manufactured the shock wave generator, tested a uranium deuteride neutron initiator under Project 110, planned five warheads with four for the Shahab-3, and preserved the capability when Amad was downsized in 2003. The archive's existence is itself a violation of Iran's commitments.
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Not talking points "bro". They are primary sources, so address them.
The 2007 NIE said Iran halted its weapons program in 2003. The nuclear archive Israel seized in 2018, which the IAEA holds in its entirety, shows what "halted" meant: Iran preserved the entire program, hid the documentation, kept Fordow, a site the archive shows was designed under the Amad Plan to make weapon-grade uranium, and wrote plans to continue the work in smaller form. The IAEA then found undeclared man-made uranium particles at archive sites and Iran refused to explain them for seven years. The IAEA, not FDD, declared Iran in breach of its safeguards obligations in June 2025.
And your own theory refutes you. If Iran paused in 2003 because it feared what America did to its neighbor, that is a case for force working, not for the regime's peaceful intentions. A country with no weapons ambitions doesn't need a reason to pause them, doesn't bury enrichment halls under mountains, and doesn't stockpile 400 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium, which is what Iran held by May 2025. There is no civilian use for 60%.
Dismissing a source instead of a fact is how you concede the fact, "bro".
The 2007 NIE said Iran halted its weapons program in 2003. The nuclear archive Israel seized in 2018, which the IAEA holds in its entirety, shows what "halted" meant: Iran preserved the entire program, hid the documentation, kept Fordow, a site the archive shows was designed under the Amad Plan to make weapon-grade uranium, and wrote plans to continue the work in smaller form. The IAEA then found undeclared man-made uranium particles at archive sites and Iran refused to explain them for seven years. The IAEA, not FDD, declared Iran in breach of its safeguards obligations in June 2025.
And your own theory refutes you. If Iran paused in 2003 because it feared what America did to its neighbor, that is a case for force working, not for the regime's peaceful intentions. A country with no weapons ambitions doesn't need a reason to pause them, doesn't bury enrichment halls under mountains, and doesn't stockpile 400 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium, which is what Iran held by May 2025. There is no civilian use for 60%.
Dismissing a source instead of a fact is how you concede the fact, "bro".
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If anyone believes this nonsense, here are the facts he is counting on you not knowing.
The deal did not end Iran's nuclear program. It rented a pause. Iran kept its centrifuges, kept Fordow buried in a mountain, kept enriching to 3.67%, and the key restrictions came with expiration dates. The sunset clauses began lifting in 2025. Obama's own answer at the time was that breakout time "would have shrunk almost down to zero" as the deal expired. His deal scheduled the problem for his successors.
The regime lied its way into the deal. The JCPOA was premised on Iran coming clean about past weapons work. In 2018 Israel pulled Iran's own nuclear archive out of a Tehran warehouse: tens of thousands of documents on the Amad Project, a crash program to build nuclear weapons, preserved and hidden while Iran certified it had no such program. The IAEA later found uranium traces at undeclared sites Iran never explained.
The deal paid for terror. Sanctions relief unfroze roughly $100 billion and the US delivered $1.7 billion in cash. That money flowed to the IRGC, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis. Diplomacy with a regime at war with you is financing, not peace.
And the result? By 2025 Iran was enriching to 60%, a short technical step from weapons grade, with enough material for multiple bombs and the IAEA declaring it in violation of its obligations. That is what required military force this year. Iran marched to the threshold under the deal's cover and after it.
"I didn't have to fire a missile" is true. He handed the regime money, legitimacy, and a timetable, and left the missiles to be fired a decade later by someone else. Appeasing a dictatorship doesn't buy peace. It buys the dictatorship time.
The deal did not end Iran's nuclear program. It rented a pause. Iran kept its centrifuges, kept Fordow buried in a mountain, kept enriching to 3.67%, and the key restrictions came with expiration dates. The sunset clauses began lifting in 2025. Obama's own answer at the time was that breakout time "would have shrunk almost down to zero" as the deal expired. His deal scheduled the problem for his successors.
The regime lied its way into the deal. The JCPOA was premised on Iran coming clean about past weapons work. In 2018 Israel pulled Iran's own nuclear archive out of a Tehran warehouse: tens of thousands of documents on the Amad Project, a crash program to build nuclear weapons, preserved and hidden while Iran certified it had no such program. The IAEA later found uranium traces at undeclared sites Iran never explained.
The deal paid for terror. Sanctions relief unfroze roughly $100 billion and the US delivered $1.7 billion in cash. That money flowed to the IRGC, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis. Diplomacy with a regime at war with you is financing, not peace.
And the result? By 2025 Iran was enriching to 60%, a short technical step from weapons grade, with enough material for multiple bombs and the IAEA declaring it in violation of its obligations. That is what required military force this year. Iran marched to the threshold under the deal's cover and after it.
"I didn't have to fire a missile" is true. He handed the regime money, legitimacy, and a timetable, and left the missiles to be fired a decade later by someone else. Appeasing a dictatorship doesn't buy peace. It buys the dictatorship time.
OBAMA: Iran didn't have nuclear weapons because I had put a deal in place and I didn't have to fire a missile to do it. I just had to engage in diplomacy.
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Ro Khanna must have learned arithmetic in the government schools he wants to expand, because he cannot add.
Start with what he leaves out. The federal deficit for fiscal 2026, closed last month, is $2 trillion. Spending of $7.4 trillion against revenue of $5.4 trillion. For every dollar collected, Washington spent $1.37. Interest on the debt runs about $1.1 trillion, more than the entire military. Total debt passed $40 trillion in August.
That is before Medicare for All, free college, free childcare, and trade schools. Medicare for All alone runs around $3 trillion a year. Taxing every billionaire at 5 percent raises about $420 billion. One time. Then the money is gone and the program is permanent.
His France math fails the same way. Social Security is 5 percent of GDP, but he skips Medicare at nearly 4 percent more. Government at every level already spends 39 percent of GDP here. Add his list and we are France, with a deficit that was already the highest in the developed world.
The post-war boom he invokes ran on a federal government spending about 17 percent of GDP and a debt that fell from 106 percent of GDP to 38 by 1965. He proposes the reverse and calls it the same thing.
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in economics from the University of Chicago. He knows what these numbers mean. He writes this garbage anyway, because he is counting votes, not dollars.
Start with what he leaves out. The federal deficit for fiscal 2026, closed last month, is $2 trillion. Spending of $7.4 trillion against revenue of $5.4 trillion. For every dollar collected, Washington spent $1.37. Interest on the debt runs about $1.1 trillion, more than the entire military. Total debt passed $40 trillion in August.
That is before Medicare for All, free college, free childcare, and trade schools. Medicare for All alone runs around $3 trillion a year. Taxing every billionaire at 5 percent raises about $420 billion. One time. Then the money is gone and the program is permanent.
His France math fails the same way. Social Security is 5 percent of GDP, but he skips Medicare at nearly 4 percent more. Government at every level already spends 39 percent of GDP here. Add his list and we are France, with a deficit that was already the highest in the developed world.
The post-war boom he invokes ran on a federal government spending about 17 percent of GDP and a debt that fell from 106 percent of GDP to 38 by 1965. He proposes the reverse and calls it the same thing.
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in economics from the University of Chicago. He knows what these numbers mean. He writes this garbage anyway, because he is counting votes, not dollars.
The reason the US surpassed France is we invested in education & research.
In the late 1950s, we had 80 percent of teenagers enrolled in high schoolers compared to France that was still at 20 to 30 percent.
We built out public colleges and community colleges far more than France.
We invested in NSF & DARPA more than France did in research and allowed universities like Stanford to commercialize tech.
France's 57 percent of GDP is largely because of pensions which pay 60 percent of salary and something the US does not have.
Social security is 5% of GDP, compared to Frances's 14% for pensions.
Students in France want more spending on schools rather than simply on retirees & they oppose tax cuts for the wealthy.
France does have a more economical healthcare system (11% GDP) and Americans would get a better deal if we went to Medicare for all. We currently spend nearly 18% and have more denials and worse outcomes.
The bottom line is we can invest in our public schools, free college, trade schools, childcare, and Medicare for All while still having significantly less public spending than France.
We could have more economic growth by supporting our schools, colleges, universities, research, and entrepreneurs.
Productive investment in health and education leads to growth in a technology age that values human capital.
We can pay for this by taxing the billionaires and not wasting money on losing foreign wars.
This does not make us France.
It makes us the America that saw explosive growth and built the middle class post WWII.
.@smerconish and I discuss!
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Agreed, no software should reach into your account and move money without your authorization. That is a job for licensed professionals like Bernie, who have been doing it by statute for 35 years and call it compassion.
The difference is the bank will reverse an unauthorized withdrawal. The IRS will not.
The difference is the bank will reverse an unauthorized withdrawal. The IRS will not.
This is insane. We cannot allow AI agents to go into your bank account and act independently without your authorization. But that is what’s happening right now.
Left unchecked, AI could endanger the entire global financial system — including your bank account.
Pause AI NOW!Community notePer Axios, detected AI agents access bank accounts with the customer’s permission. This violates most banks’ terms requiring human logins, which is why banks call it “unauthorized.”
Source: Axios (Oct. 22, 2026) — axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-…
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The Rational Animal 🤔 retweeted
Heroes don't have to risk their lives for some cause 'greater than themselves'. Heroes, like @AlexEpstein, save lives by questioning anti-human narratives, lobbying against harmful regulations, freeing up productive potential, and defending energy freedom. Who is your hero?
For years, climate hysteria won most every argument.
Now, finally, the craziness has diminished.
In my full interview with @AlexEpstein we cover the shift, and also: why AI matters, Trump’s energy policies, ESG, and more:
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The Rational Animal 🤔 retweeted
The American dream belongs to Wall Street, said no one ever.
The American Dream doesn’t belong to Wall Street. It belongs to the American people.
Thanks to President Trump and Scott Bessent, families don’t have to worry about getting out-bid on their dream homes by private equity barons. And we’re making those same big investors give financial support to families buying their first homes.
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This is another example of why @brithume is my favorite news anchor. The administration's envoy calls Putin a humanitarian, and Hume calls him what he is, a war criminal, on Fox's own air. No other host there will challenge Trump like that.
DIPLOMATIC FLATTERY DEBATED: "Witkoff is a famously very genial guy and nice guy. What Trump has said about him everybody likes him. Maybe now Vladimir Putin likes him too for saying something pretty extravagant there that he is a humanitarian. The guy is a war criminal for God’s bs on civilians without regard to human life. To call him a humanitarian is absurd... When you are trying to get a guy who has been locked up for four years illegally, you don’t insult the guy. Maybe you flatter him. Maybe this time he flattered him a little too much." @brithume
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The Rational Animal 🤔 retweeted
DIPLOMATIC FLATTERY DEBATED: "Witkoff is a famously very genial guy and nice guy. What Trump has said about him everybody likes him. Maybe now Vladimir Putin likes him too for saying something pretty extravagant there that he is a humanitarian. The guy is a war criminal for God’s bs on civilians without regard to human life. To call him a humanitarian is absurd... When you are trying to get a guy who has been locked up for four years illegally, you don’t insult the guy. Maybe you flatter him. Maybe this time he flattered him a little too much." @brithume
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What he means is that only men like himself via government force should be able to do any of these.
AI is a tool. It fires nobody and denies nobody. A decision maker does those things, and the only question is who that decision maker is and whether you can walk away from him. An insurer that denies your claim can be fired, sued, or left for a competitor. Under his Medicare for All, the government is the only payer allowed by law. When it denies your care, there is no second door, no appeal to a rival, no exit. He is not proposing to protect you from a denial. He is proposing to decide who issues it, and his answer is the one institution you can never leave.
The tool does not worry him. Your independence from him does.
AI is a tool. It fires nobody and denies nobody. A decision maker does those things, and the only question is who that decision maker is and whether you can walk away from him. An insurer that denies your claim can be fired, sued, or left for a competitor. Under his Medicare for All, the government is the only payer allowed by law. When it denies your care, there is no second door, no appeal to a rival, no exit. He is not proposing to protect you from a denial. He is proposing to decide who issues it, and his answer is the one institution you can never leave.
The tool does not worry him. Your independence from him does.
AI shouldn't be able to fire you, fire a weapon, or deny you healthcare.
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Faith is the one commodity Washington holds in surplus. Congress takes it on faith that a $40 trillion debt pays itself. You take it on faith that the debt has nothing to do with federal health programs, the largest item in the budget at $1.8 trillion a year. You take it on faith that Medicare for All needs no price tag, that a billion dollars sits idle in a vault, and that a 7 percent annual tax on capital leaves the capital standing.
Faith is belief without evidence. Reason is the faculty that identifies the facts and accepts them whether they flatter your platform or not. The trustees publish the facts every June. The Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund runs short in 2033 and the law cuts payments 11 percent automatically. The Social Security Old-Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund runs short in 2032 and the law cuts benefits 22 percent automatically. Prayer does not move either date.
Washington has all the faith it can hold. What it lacks is reason, and you are campaigning to bring more of the first.
Faith is belief without evidence. Reason is the faculty that identifies the facts and accepts them whether they flatter your platform or not. The trustees publish the facts every June. The Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund runs short in 2033 and the law cuts payments 11 percent automatically. The Social Security Old-Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund runs short in 2032 and the law cuts benefits 22 percent automatically. Prayer does not move either date.
Washington has all the faith it can hold. What it lacks is reason, and you are campaigning to bring more of the first.
As a man of faith, I pray every day.
Faith is a thing there’s just too little of in Washington.
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"I want to see people not die" is the argument of every appeaser in history, and it deserves the answer history gave it.
World War II killed roughly 70 to 85 million people. Over 400,000 of them were Americans. By Hannity's logic, the moral course in 1941 would have been surrender. Let Hitler keep Europe. Let Japan keep the Pacific. People would stop dying. The war should have been settled long ago.
The American Revolution killed roughly 25,000 Americans. About 6,800 fell in battle. Out of a population of 2.5 million, that is one percent of the country, the equivalent of over 3 million Americans today. By Hannity's logic, Washington should have settled long ago. The colonists were outgunned, outspent, and losing men they could not replace. Accept the Crown's terms, stop the dying, take the deal. Had they followed that advice, there is no United States. There is no Constitution. There is no free nation for Hannity to broadcast from. Every liberty he exercises tonight exists because men at Valley Forge rejected the argument he is making.
Observe what this argument demands and of whom. It asks nothing of the aggressor. Russia can end every death tomorrow by going home. Instead the demand lands on the victim. Stop defending yourself, your resistance is the problem. That is not a plea for peace. That is a plea for the aggressor's victory delivered in humanitarian language.
A man who counts corpses without asking who initiated the killing has dropped the one fact that gives the count moral meaning. 32,000 soldiers lost in a month is Putin's doing. He started this war. He continues it. He can stop it at any hour he chooses. Blaming Ukraine for those deaths is like blaming the man who fights fires for the smoke.
If "people not dying" is the standard, there is only one way to stop it. Make aggression fatal to the aggressor.
This kind of intellectual corruption is the reason that Hannity's own network puts Trump's approval at 36%, with 64% disapproving and why Trump is about to hand the country back to the Democrats.
World War II killed roughly 70 to 85 million people. Over 400,000 of them were Americans. By Hannity's logic, the moral course in 1941 would have been surrender. Let Hitler keep Europe. Let Japan keep the Pacific. People would stop dying. The war should have been settled long ago.
The American Revolution killed roughly 25,000 Americans. About 6,800 fell in battle. Out of a population of 2.5 million, that is one percent of the country, the equivalent of over 3 million Americans today. By Hannity's logic, Washington should have settled long ago. The colonists were outgunned, outspent, and losing men they could not replace. Accept the Crown's terms, stop the dying, take the deal. Had they followed that advice, there is no United States. There is no Constitution. There is no free nation for Hannity to broadcast from. Every liberty he exercises tonight exists because men at Valley Forge rejected the argument he is making.
Observe what this argument demands and of whom. It asks nothing of the aggressor. Russia can end every death tomorrow by going home. Instead the demand lands on the victim. Stop defending yourself, your resistance is the problem. That is not a plea for peace. That is a plea for the aggressor's victory delivered in humanitarian language.
A man who counts corpses without asking who initiated the killing has dropped the one fact that gives the count moral meaning. 32,000 soldiers lost in a month is Putin's doing. He started this war. He continues it. He can stop it at any hour he chooses. Blaming Ukraine for those deaths is like blaming the man who fights fires for the smoke.
If "people not dying" is the standard, there is only one way to stop it. Make aggression fatal to the aggressor.
This kind of intellectual corruption is the reason that Hannity's own network puts Trump's approval at 36%, with 64% disapproving and why Trump is about to hand the country back to the Democrats.
32,000 SOLDIERS LOST IN ONE MONTH. Trump wants it OVER.
Zelensky says Trump is on the wrong side of history. Trump's answer: Ukraine is losing 25,000 to 35,000 men every month and the war should have been settled long ago.
"I want to see people not die."
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The Rational Animal 🤔 retweeted
Trump’s executive order waving sanctions on Russia is a present to Vladimir Putin.
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Anyone who believes this is even possible has lost his grip on reality or learned math from Bernie, AOC or Ro Khanna. Run the numbers.
$1,000 a week from one company = $52,000 a year per person
Times 3 to 5 companies = $156,000 to $260,000 a year per person
Times 262 million American adults = $41 to $68 trillion a year
US GDP is about $31 trillion. All federal revenue is about $5.5 trillion. Total after-tax profit of every corporation in America is under $4 trillion. One week of checks from one company, $262 billion, is around ten times OpenAI's annual revenue. The plan requires a handful of firms to pay out more than every dollar produced in the country, every year, forever.
That's the simple math problem. The deeper one is that money isn't wealth. A check is a claim on goods somebody produced. If nobody works, the check buys whatever the machines make, and prices rise until the checks are worth exactly what backs them, which is nothing. Printing claims on production that doesn't exist is how you get Weimar, not leisure.
Walsh is right that it's a dystopia. He's wrong about who'd be writing the checks. No company can. Only a government with a printing press would try.
$1,000 a week from one company = $52,000 a year per person
Times 3 to 5 companies = $156,000 to $260,000 a year per person
Times 262 million American adults = $41 to $68 trillion a year
US GDP is about $31 trillion. All federal revenue is about $5.5 trillion. Total after-tax profit of every corporation in America is under $4 trillion. One week of checks from one company, $262 billion, is around ten times OpenAI's annual revenue. The plan requires a handful of firms to pay out more than every dollar produced in the country, every year, forever.
That's the simple math problem. The deeper one is that money isn't wealth. A check is a claim on goods somebody produced. If nobody works, the check buys whatever the machines make, and prices rise until the checks are worth exactly what backs them, which is nothing. Printing claims on production that doesn't exist is how you get Weimar, not leisure.
Walsh is right that it's a dystopia. He's wrong about who'd be writing the checks. No company can. Only a government with a printing press would try.
This sounds like a dystopian nightmare. I do not want to live off of handouts from my Big Tech overlords. The fact that anyone sees this as some heavenly vision of the future is extremely depressing. Some people (most?) just simply do not want freedom or autonomy. They do not have ambition of any kind. For ambitious, independent minded people, this fact is very hard to absorb.
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@investwert Yep. It is always the same story: Winning the next election is always more important than the reason why they claimed to want to win the current one.
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I don’t see it ending well. 40 trillion in debt. 2 trillion in yearly deficits. A Republican administration taking partial ownership of the means of production. The expansion of the welfare state by both parties and the refusal to address this crisis decade after decade.
@theobjectivist We're living Atlas Shrugged and it doesn't end well if we keep going down that road...
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The Rational Animal 🤔 retweeted
LASIK eye surgery costs roughly $2,100 per eye today. In 1998, it cost $2,200 per eye. Adjusted for inflation, you are paying about 60% less for a procedure that has simultaneously become faster, safer, and more precise. That is what markets do when left alone.
Now compare that DA classified hearing aids as prescription medical devices for decades, locking you into audiologist appointments before you could buy a $3,000 device that a manufacturer could produce for $300. Or, look at insulin. Heavily regulated, patent-extended, and politically manipulated, a vial of Humalog ran over $330 in 2024 versus roughly $21 in Canada for a biosimilar. Same molecule. Different regulatory environment.
LASIK sits in a peculiar gap. Insurers rarely cover it, which means third-party payment schemes never severed the price signal between provider and patient. You shop, clinics compete, manufacturers race to improve technology. The feedback loop that markets depend on functions exactly as it should.
Regulated medical markets break that loop deliberately. The FDA's approval process costs pharmaceutical companies over $2.6 billion per new drug on average, erecting barriers that protect incumbents and punish smaller competitors who cannot absorb a decade of compliance costs. Patients then pay the premium on the back end.
LASIK is the control in the experiment. The market won.
Now compare that DA classified hearing aids as prescription medical devices for decades, locking you into audiologist appointments before you could buy a $3,000 device that a manufacturer could produce for $300. Or, look at insulin. Heavily regulated, patent-extended, and politically manipulated, a vial of Humalog ran over $330 in 2024 versus roughly $21 in Canada for a biosimilar. Same molecule. Different regulatory environment.
LASIK sits in a peculiar gap. Insurers rarely cover it, which means third-party payment schemes never severed the price signal between provider and patient. You shop, clinics compete, manufacturers race to improve technology. The feedback loop that markets depend on functions exactly as it should.
Regulated medical markets break that loop deliberately. The FDA's approval process costs pharmaceutical companies over $2.6 billion per new drug on average, erecting barriers that protect incumbents and punish smaller competitors who cannot absorb a decade of compliance costs. Patients then pay the premium on the back end.
LASIK is the control in the experiment. The market won.
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