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This is basically the return of the bread and circuses problem, but with insurance premiums instead of bread. So what is the bread and circus

problem? Well, in ancient Rome, political stability often depended on whether people could

afford one, food, bread, and two, entertainment, which was circuses. And when they become too

expensive or unreliable, that's when you get political

pressure spiking. Health care has become the modern version of bread and circuses. And if it

gets too expensive, it's just going to dominate everything else in politics. So you don't have

societies that are going to collapse from ideology. You have

them collapsing when everyday survival costs rise faster than incomes. And health care isn't

just a policy issue. It's now a stability indicator. Can we afford to live? And when health care

becomes the top voter issue like it has, according to this article

in Indiana Capital Chronicle, it usually means that the economy has entered. It's everything

just feels too expensive phase. And that's where we are. And that's where we've been for a while.

You've got rising costs of essential goods. You've got inflation. you've got services outpacing wage growth,

and now we're not going to focus so much on our ideals as we are affordability and stability.

So according to this article, health care costs are the number one concern for Indiana voters heading into

election season. Yeah, it doesn't matter whatever poll we've seen the last shoot, six months

or a year or even more. It's interesting. These polls and the results are always determined by

the way they ask the questions. But regardless of what it has been, it's been something about affordability that's always at the top. It's always that. It's either inflation or

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