News Summary

• Picking up the tab for a good or service doesn't actually lower its cost.
• Shifting who pays for things is how most governments are supposedly “addressing” the problem of “affordability” Daycare, dental care and housing are getting too expensive?
• No worries: we’ll buy them for you.
• They will now be very ‘affordable,’ assuming the wait times don’t get too long.
• But who pays has changed so the political problem of affordability has been “solved”