? The Fallacy of Single-Payer Health Care ?
“Chris Pope joins John Stossel to talk about the debate over single-payer health care—a system in which the federal government would assume all health-care costs currently borne by private insurers, employers, and individuals.
Momentum for single-payer is growing among Democratic politicians. Senator Bernie Sanders’s “Medicare for All” proposal would impose $32 trillion in new costs over ten years and a likely annual tax increase of $26,000 per American household. It’s hard to imagine that Congress would adopt massive federal tax increases and rationing of health-care services, but incremental proposals, such as Medicaid buy-in and strict price controls, could be on the horizon if Democrats capture the White House in 2020 and do well in the congressional elections.
Advocates for single-payer health care point to European countries with generous social-welfare systems as evidence of its success. They don’t acknowledge the fact that Germany and France, like the United States, have private and employer-funded health insurance, in addition to government programs for the poor. In the meantime, U.S. lawmakers continue to ignore reforms—like eliminating barriers to hospital competition—that would probably be more effective in improving America’s health-care system.”
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NeoNote — Trump & North Korea
This isn't business as usual. It never is with Trump. The old diplomatic games won't work. He doesn't care about the shape of the table. Trump cares about getting things done.
Read More...Victim can't tell the difference
Wednesday - 07Feb2018 Filed in: Quotes & Thinkums&Politics
““The Democratic Party is better than the Republican Party in the way that manslaughter is slightly better than murder: It might seem like a lesser crime, but the victim can’t really tell the difference.””
— Michael Harriot, The Democratic Party Is Not Our Friend
NeoNotes — Infrastructure
??Let's talk about infrastructure. Specifically, let's talk about Puerto Rico's infrastructure that was mismanaged and mostly ignored for decades before Trump took office. We could also mention Chicago, Baltimore, Washington D.C., and a number of other cities. What makes these places unique is that they have massive overspending, crumbling infrastructure, and Democrat leadership for decades.??NeoNotes are the selected comments that I made on other boards, in email, or in response to articles where I could not respond directly.
“Black, Millennial, Female and… Conservative” from Prager University
Friday - 14Jul2017 Filed in: Politics&Morality & Modern Life
“Antonia Okafor, a young, single, black woman, recently discoveblurb that's she's a racist, sexist, misogynist. How in the world did this happen? None other than Antonia Okafor explains.”
Read More...Unholy alliance
??Her politics don't allow for dissent.
That tells me more than I need to know.??
— NeoWayland
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And justice for all?
Thursday - 07Jul2005 Filed in: Liberty