Who's drowning in medical debt? The patients that'll die on their 4+ hour drive to the nearest doctor, because you took away their bigot of a doctor without having a replacement? How many deaths would be acceptable sacrifices to get rid of one bigot? Seriously what would the number be?
Or do you mean medical school debt? I hope you mean medical school debt.
Obviously the least damaging option, would be keeping the bigot in place until someone else can step into the role.
It certainly could be a coincidence that they were told to canceled a show that's also loosing them $40M.
Which might leave an area without any doctor at all.
Relative viewer counts aren't the whole story. It also matters how much they cost, and how much they revenue they bring in. Late night TV has been doing terribly overall. The Late Show specifically is apparently losing $40M this year.
That's certainly possible, plausible even. But it's far from certain.
Broadcast TV has been bleeding viewers for nearly two decades now. The same article this one cites to say Colbert was #1 in its time slot also says, in the last quarter all the late night shows lost 7-8% of their audience. Colbert lost 17% among younger viewers. That's just the last quarter alone. That's a crazy drop.
And remember they aren't just canceling Colbert, but the entire The Late Show altogether. One of their cornerstone programs for I don't even know how many decades.
Also, If they were canceling The Late Show just because Rump wanted them to, he wouldn't accept having to wait a whole year for it. He'd want it now.
So I actually do believe it was a purely financial decision. Colbert's contract probably ends with the the next season, and rather than giving him another raise for a show that's bleeding viewers, it makes sense to just let it all end.
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On one hand. People in rural areas don't have a lot of options for doctors.
On the other, you don't really want care from a doctor who doesn't think you should be getting it, and has to be forced.
One deserved murder, for one undeserved.
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
Only if they don't settle out of court.
I can't imagine trump wants this to go to a court room.
Green tinted glasses would be the technical answer.
Sick tinted glasses?
Right, but this isn't Hollywood. The specifics of Hollywood accounting don't really work for ongoing television programs. It requires the short term nature of movie production.