07-21-2017, 06:28 AM
(07-21-2017, 02:27 AM)RICHMONDBENGAL_07 Wrote: I've been thinking about this a lot lately. And most civilized countries (and even some uncivilized countries) have some form of single payer system in place. Americans love to be first in everything. It has become increasingly clear to me that we are not first in healthcare, not even in the top ten! I know when a lot of Americans are presented with anything slightly resembling anything European when it comes to healthcare, they scream SOCIALISM!!!!!....AHHHHHH! Look I'm proud to be an American, I served in our Navy, at times I even like our swagger. But there are things that frustrate me about Americans though. And one of them is the insistence that because it wasn't "our" idea then it's not good for us. Especially when we are founded on the notion of basic rights. IMO healthcare should be one of those rights and not bankrupt you in the process. IMO we should literally be looking at who has had the most success with it and copy it. There has to be some sort of solution though, what we're seeing now is ridiculous.Agree Rich. We are by far the richest country in the world. All Americans should have access to free or inexpensive health care. We don't need to keep dumping billion of dollars into a military thats ten times stronger than any other. Bernie had some extreme views on some things but two of his beliefs I agree with , Free healhcare and the income inequality that is making the middle class disappear. The regular Joe's of this country have to stop letting the top one per cent use us and control were our tax dollars go.
On a side note I read something recently that I thought was interesting. It was an article quoting Warren Buffet (the liberal billionare) and he was saying that the single payer system would be good for Americans because it would lessen the burden on companies to provide insurance for employees, his republican/conservative partner agreed. It was interesting to me because I hadn't thought of it from that angle before. Any who just my two pennies on the situation.
What is the Republicans main talking point? Isn't it about entitlements? Get as many middle class voters fired up as they can when they see that person at the grocery store paying for a big order with food stamps or the black woman with five kids getting welfare checks. This is the elephant in the room. No doubt these entitlements need tweaked and distributed more prudently. The Republicans health care plan called for a 880 billion taken away from medicare and be given to the rich in the form of tax cuts. Is this watching out for the MC (middle class)? Why do so many MC voters fall for this bullshit? stupidity, indifference, laziness? Trickle down economics, yeah right. It appears a lot of people like to be led around like lemmings.
Am I missing something here?
