Medicare for All would be a nightmare of unintended consequences

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Not really, algorithmic controls will make it so everyone's premiums are curtailed due to life habits and situations etc.

You guys sweat the small stuff too much.

Wait! The poster is a bot! Damn you robot! Leave Americans alone!

[–]nygal[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Wow.

Americans are so enslaved that they think government agents are holy gods, but since the elites and the government are the same now, asking for government protection from businesses is like asking a thief to watch your house when you go on vacation.

FAA regulates airlines, but airplanes still fail.

https://www.greensboro.com/townnews/aeronautics/criticism-of-faa-mounts-as-other-nations-ground-boeing-jets/article_eb7b9bff-d7b4-5ac4-a161-193e06107c6f.html

SEC regulates stockbrokers, but markets still crash.

FDA regulates drugs, but drugs are still dangerous.

EPA regulates the environment, but the EPA pollutes.

https://dailycaller.com/2015/09/15/what-do-we-do-now-watch-epa-workers-unleash-toxic-waste-into-the-animas-river/

The USSR was a Socialist utopia, but the Soviet Union was polluted.

https://www.gerdludwig.com/stories/soviet-pollution-a-lethal-legacy/

Maybe the real reason there are laws against car repair is because car dealers lobby for them.

Maybe the real reason there are food stamps now is because food and banking corporations lobby for them.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/food-stamps-making-food-companies-fat/story?id=17166643

Maybe the real reason tax filing is so difficult is that tax preparation corporations lobby for complicated tax forms.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/taxes/turbotax-h-r-block-spend-millions-lobbying-us-keep-doing-n736386

Maybe the real reason there are laws against ridesharing is because taxi cab companies lobby for regulations against competition.

https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/local/20160128_Emails__Parking_ Authority_worked_with_taxis_to_stop_Uber.html

Maybe the real reason there are mandatory vaccine laws now is because pharmaceutical corporations lobby for them.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2007-01-29-0701290104-story.html

Maybe the real reason the US is a police state now is because private prison corporations lobby for it.

Maybe the real reason the US is a warmonger now is because defense corporations lobby for wars.

Maybe the real reason there are mandatory health and auto insurance laws now is because insurance companies lobby for them.

Maybe the real reason there are bailouts and subsidies is because corporations lobby for them.

Maybe the real reason there are government student loans and grants now is because colleges lobby for them.

The government takes away your freedom, but won’t protect you.

The way to deal with danger today is to do what worked in the past.

Government needs to be small and people need to take personal responsibility and embrace freedom.

Being dangerous is not in the best of companies.

The big difference between private business and tyranny is that you can boycott the free market, but the government forces you at gunpoint to do something or not do something.

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

What do we need government for anyway?

Everything the free market does is better than what government does.

Would you rather graduate from Harvard or the University of New Mexico? Would you rather own a Yugo or a BMW?

If a private association like the MPAA can regulate movies, why can’t the private market regulate other things?

When the TSA fingers your asshole and pulls your cock, is the real purpose to protect you or to make you feel like a degraded slave?

When people smoke now, people just call the police on them, but people in the past either took some personal responsibility and ignored smokers, moved away from smokers, or asked smokers to go somewhere else. The problem with a police state is everyone now is either or a slave or a criminal. Who pays the taxes to pay for tyranny?

If smoking is dangerous, can’t nonprofits raise funds to pay for educational campaigns that warn of the dangers of smoking instead of outlawing smoking?

Can’t people use the BBB to verify if a business is good or not instead of forcing companies to pay fees to get a government business license?

https://www.bbb.org

Can’t private charities funded by volunteer donations provide homeless shelters and soup kitchens instead of being at forced at the point of a gun by the government to pay taxes that fund welfare?

https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/news/the-salvation-army-ranks-high-on-new-lists-of-americas-top-charities/

Can’t people use guns to protect themselves instead of relying on the Gestapo?

https://nypost.com/2017/08/04/alaskan-town-doing-just-fine-after-losing-entire-police-force/

Can’t neighbourhoods hire private security firms to protect their homes?

https://dksecurity.com

Can’t the free market provide toll roads?

https://portcitydaily.com/local-news/2018/06/03/private-toll-road-near-surf-city-deemed-a-success-by-road-maintenance-organization/

Can’t the free market provide private airports?

https://www.oceanreef.com/amenities/private-airport/

Can’t the free market provide private schools?

https://www.privateschoolreview.com/school-size-stats/wisconsin

Can’t the free market provide disaster relief instead of FEMA?

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/29/us/harvey-cajun-navy/index.html

Can’t the free market run delivery services instead of the USPS?

https://www.fedex.com/global/choose-location.html

Can’t the free market run railroads instead of Amtrack?

https://skift.com/2015/08/08/the-u-s-s-first-private-passenger-rail-in-30-years-departs-in-2017/

Think.

https://finalchan.net/sp/

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Increasing the minimum wage providing health care for all, education all, simply good for America supporting Wolfpac and ending money in politics. No, free markets is playing into the moneys greedy hand Eveytime. How about letting the people decide. You want to move and not loose insurance? Cover all. You want less wellfair stop buying cops and courts to do the dirty work. Ending private middleman in prisons food supply, education, tax property breaks for all of them, taxing the filthy rich is the answer. Here is an exercise. In America we have a work force of 160+ billion workers. Of that we have half making less than $15.00 an hour. I know pitiful. The cost of the minimum wage increase boils down to a average of $5.00 and hour to all of them. If you multiply this number by 80 billion people. You come up with 400 million dollars and hour of new spending in America. That's makes America great again. All tax free. Billions of dollars a day. Being spent where you live mostly local in your business. I think you right to complain, but it will take more than that. Destroying the safety net of jobs is what you miss, unions and wages is how to fix poverty. Cutting the cost of doing that is more important then complaining about it as a function of a broken governance. I say 25.00 an hour isn't even close to what we really need. Freemarket is really the worst solution I have ever heard. We tried it for the last fourth years an I say ending public management is what got us to right now. Maybe I'm wrong but at least I'm willing to try a different way today. Don't be so afraid of what's right and good for us all. Or you give up your right to change it. Cause let's face facts it is our solutions have been coopted by what money wants you to believe it's the poor and hungry that are the problem?. It is all of our money we buy from the fed goes to the rich never comes back to us while we pay the interest on that money everyday while they hide it away from all of us that the broken system I want to fix. This time with out haircuts for all of us, and none for them.That's what's broken not what you think is broken. It is the wealth transfer to our filthy rich you have ignored. You mostly right but you drank the poison pill in solutions. Tax them and tax them often. Pay us more and do that often save trillions by expanding health care to all. Educate our next generation. Build public jobs and regulate the banks. All way better ideas in my opinion.

[–]nygal[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Does anyone get the feeling that anyone supporting the police state now is a paid NSA shill?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks