experts say 20% ish. but that’s only if you don’t stack hazards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f491B4uuIY&t=2s

Dept. of They Want You Dead: The time of reckoning is coming. The American health insurance industry in a nutshell. You pay your premiums, you get sick, you follow your doctor’s instructions, and your insurance company decides whether saving your life is worth the money. What happens when Americans do the math and decide health insurance isn’t worth buying anymore?

The El Niño climate pattern, scrambling weather worldwide and now exacerbated by warming seas, has devastated communities across the Central American Dry Corridor, an arid region from southern Mexico through Panama. So Honduras is trying to make it rain.

We are repeatedly told that industrialization and capitalism represent the pinnacle of human civilization. Material abundance has never been greater, technology advances by the day, and GDP figures seem to climb forever. But if you lift your eyes from the statistics and look around, at the burned-out office worker, the summer that gets hotter every year, the food bank line that gets longer every month, a different story emerges. The core drivers of the Western development model, endless growth, endless consumption, and endless extraction, are systematically producing burnout, climate collapse, and inequality. This is not a glitch in the system. It is the system working as designed.