It was training us to eat slop and die early and slowly from cancer to keep the medical system funded; Medicare, an efficient mechanism to distribute borrowed money to population centers. Ever wonder why Minnesota is so prosperous? It's called "medical alley" for a reason. It's also an industrialist population that early-on adopted domestic fluorescent lights, nightly radio/television, indirect heating, and indoor living, amongst an alcohol, sugar&grain-centric culture, at high latitudes. A perfect storm for metabolic disease, heart disease, cancers and mental disorders. The federal government subsidized medical system turned out to be a convenient funnel to drive government "deficits", producing imbalanced trade deficits which established DC as the ultimate economic/military central global imperial power.