> Is HN supposed to be a place where we try to find a flaw on every statement and make sure it doesn't go unnoticed?

A recurring and important (to me, anyway) question here is how technical skill may be leveraged to provide real value to the world. This is a hard and unanswered problem. This [brandonb's] statement is so strong that, if it were true, it would eliminate a vast territory of alternate [possibly correct] paths to answers ("oh, you did X? My code saved 50 lives this year."). So it [brandonb's statement] is worth challenging (or correcting) more so than any random statement here. And yes, I do view promoting accuracy (even disillusion) as fighting for the cause.

I hope Brandon will accept my sincere thanks for working on something that is important. Irrespective of health impact, the financial risk borne by the uninsured is an important issue and not controversial.

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> What you pointed out doesn't even diminish an ounce of what Brandon and his teammates are doing.

Right. It sounds like you're implying that was his intent, and he failed. I really think it was an noble effort to get to the heart of what might be a misleading soundbite. Very much in the spirit of HN.