. Apparently the Census Bureau, according to the Center for Renewing America, has a quote secretive algorithm that only a handful of bureaucrats have access to. It's called differential privacy to scramble block level data, hide citizenship status, and shift political power to non-citizens.

Okay, you had me at secretive algorithm. Oh, but let us tell you more about why we know this data is not accurate. No, stop. Stop. Did you not just say secret algorithm? Yes, we did. That's just the beginning of our argument. Stop. Stop. Take the rest of the day off. If you tell me that any part of the census has a secret algorithm, we're done here. We're done here. The census is, I don't know how much but it's definitely. How about those temperature calculations for climate change? Huh? Do you think that they replaced all the thermometers that went out of service or were close to heat islands? In other words, too close to things like airports that would heat them up too much. No, they use their secretive algorithm to estimate what the temperature would be if they had measured it. So the climate change and apparently the census have always been complete. Have always been. So that was fun. Now I know there's going to be another side to this story and the census people will say no no that's not true. But I'll tell you, there's nothing more persuasive to me than somebody says they got a secret algorithm. No other questions. I have no other questions after I hear that phrase.

How about Obamacare? Do you think that the data about Obamacare is pretty good? Pretty clean. The people who put it into law, they had a good idea what was going to happen and they weren't surprised at all because things went just the way they estimated it would. Obamacare, what do you think? Well, according to economist Stephen Moore, the real problem is that Obamacare was never actually affordable. So apparently the Washington Post just according to Stephen just admitted what conservatives have been saying for 15 years. Quote, this is from the Washington Post. The real problem is that Obamacare was never actually affordable. Thank you, Jeff Bezos. You know, you wonder if Jeff Bezos was at all serious about making the opinion part of the newspaper closer to something that would show both sides or at least close to the middle or something. I would say this is one of the best examples of him succeeding in that narrow aim that I've seen. Can you believe that the Washington Post, you know one of the biggest supporters of the Democrats would say this directly? The problem was it was never a good idea economically.

And that, by the way, is the best reframe for Obamacare. Here's the worst reframe. You cheap, miserable, psychotic bastards want to cut that Obamacare and take away all the affordable health care for people. What kind of monsters are you? That would be the current frame. Not so good. Here's a better one. The people who implemented it knew it would fail because it was never affordable. And now we're just paying the cost of those people who lied to you for those many years. That is completely true that the people who implemented it lied to you about what it would cost and they've been lying since then. And that it was never affordable. It's not a question of are you willing to pay more? That's what it feels like. Are you willing to pay more? It's not really that. It was unaffordable by its nature on day one and wasn't going to get better.

Now, I have complimented Obama for the way he implemented it flawed because he said out loud, and I appreciated the transparency at the time. At the time, he said, "There are lots of problems with Obamacare." He didn't call it that, but he said if we don't get something in there, we won't have anything to correct. I'm paraphrasing. That's not his exact words, but he did say directly that he would prefer to implement a flawed plan and then the markets try to adjust and you know get the price down etc. So that wasn't the worst idea in the world. Except that it underappreciated how incompetent Congress is. If we had a competent Congress that operated let's say like a startup or like a private industry, then you could implement something bad, let's call it the original iPhone. The original iPhone was a piece of garbage. I mean it was just garbage. But it was also Apple computer. So by putting the first one out there, they created a market amazingly against all odds and then they could work on it every year and then it could become an amazing piece of technology. So it's not that unusual for a private entity to do what Obama did, implement the flawed version and that's the fastest way you get it fixed by raising its visibility. So but it didn't work. It didn't work. The government is not capable of doing what Apple is capable of doing, which is fast fixing things that are broken. Once something becomes a law or somebody in Congress is making money at it or their cronies are overcharging Obamacare and all the other things that happen. Can't really fix it. Can't really fix it.

So what is Trump doing? He's breaking it without having a solution. Does that make sense? Does it make sense to break it if you don't have a good replacement? People depend on it. He's just going to break it. Well, probably it does make sense because again, the government is not Apple computer. Keeping it flawed and fixing it would be great if we were Apple computer, but sometimes you just have to break it. You gotta shake the box. And it's going to cause all kinds of problems in the short run. Do you know who has balls big enough to create all kinds of problems in the short run? Because it's the only way to get to where we need to get affordable healthcare. Trump. Somebody who doesn't need to run again. If he were running for president again, might change how he approached it. But he's got the balls. He's got the mandate. He's got the second term, he's got the right people, he can break this thing. And the faster we can figure out some way to fix it because fixing it is the goal. The goal is not breaking it. The goal is not just taking away those tax burdens. The goal is to have a better healthcare. He doesn't have that yet, but boy, can he shake a box.

However, there are some good things happening in healthcare that