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Seems like it could be adapted to wall building, make it mobile, like a rolling gantry crain and keep trucking in blocks.

Oh using school buses for grid backup only looks good on paper. Hooking up chargers wouldn't be that difficult but making a meaningful grid connection to provide power isn't .
To get a 1 or 2 megawatt grid connection would be a substantial power system. Unless the school bus depo was next to a sub station it will max out the local grid at around 1 megawatt. In grid scale 1 mega watt isn't that much.
For example where I work uses about 24 megawatts on average over the course of a day.
My small corner of town with many be a few thousand people uses 3 to 4 mega watts during the day.

Originally Posted by redpoint5

If you're referring to Medicare, it's way more complex than 1/3 the cost. That is operated at a loss and made up on everyone else with money. Many places stop taking Medicare and Medicaid because it doesn't make financial sense.

I'm not entirely opposed to a single payer medical system, because clearly ours isn't good. It isn't really a free market solution either, as the government incentives employers to offer health insurance, which should be illegal. It's insane to have insurance dependent on a particular employment. It should have always been individual, because it covers individuals. We don't have employer provided car insurance.

Without going too far into health insurance... there's nothing the government can do cheaper than the private sector. It's like Venezuela outlawing starvation. Nobody dies of starvation if you make it illegal to list that as a cause of death. Similarly, nobody can provide cheaper healthcare if you outlaw higher prices for 1 arbitrary group of people while allowing any price for everyone else. Sounds like an institutional ageist law to me. The very definition of institutional ageism. Why are we privatizing space transport if it's more expensive than government programs?.

That sounds about right. Everyone will be forced to buy "free healtcare" then none of the providers worth a dam will take it.