Universal healthcare

You mean those rich people that don't have 100% of their net worth in liquid, taxable cash that idly sits in checking and savings accounts??

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The implication there is the the rich "work"? Most of the people who are super-rich and own and control our political system play money and power games and dole out rewards to people who do stuff like Rudy Giuliani did for Trump ... that is, not really work, but extend their corruption.

Many of the poorest people in the country work the hardest, and of course pre-Civil War those who worked the hardest got nothing for it.

The main problem with government incompetence is that it is to the oligarchs advantage for the government to be seen as incompetent, so they pick directors of agencies who sabotage the government programs and blame government for it.

There is a very excellent book by Thomas Frank called "The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule" that explains this perfectly well. You can see it in the decisions Republicans ( who are not even Conservatives anymore ) make, like Trump, appointing loyalists or incompetents to work for him to expand his control.

American cannot have a country with a vicious army of saboteurs trying to tear it down from the inside ... that is something I don't think we can come to terms with until things breakdown.

Another thoughtful article ( podcast ) is the PBS Fresh Air episode many years back on the retrospective of Sargent Shriver's death. Shriver founded the Peace Corp, and I believe it was Head Start. The programs in the US were opposed by the "bosses" in the political system, BECAUSE THEY WORKED, and they created a political base for democratic change.

This is worth a listen:

https://www.npr.org/2011/01/19/133049407/sargent-shriver-a-man-of-public-service

1. roads are government spending contracted out to private companies. I dont know your individual example but if theres an issue, ask the private companies.

2. universal systems are objectively cheaper than your private one. prices are inflated for profits, and a massive single government system has the ability, and motivation, to negotiate far cheaper drug prices

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita

health expenses per capita

USA- 11000

Canada - 5400
UK-4600
Australia -5700
France-5300

So, I'll turn the tables on you and ask who will prevent large scale waste under the private system you want? literally double the waste

Wrong and wrong headed. Critical thinking is obviously not your strongest attribute. What you still do not seem to comprehend is that due to the nature and amount of the taxes involved, EVERYONE pays for police and fire and EVERYONE benefits. NOT everyone pays for universal healthcare and NOT everyone would benefit. Some people will pay more, some will pay a lot more and they will get less out of it.

"Freeloader" does not assume anything more than people who do not pay their way. If you have a full time job but do not make enough money to pay the same percentage of your income towards income tax or universal healthcare, you may be working your ass off but if you benefit from programs you don't not pay for, you're still a freeloader.

A free ride is exactly what you're asking for. You are championing the freeloaders but you don't have the constitution to admit it. You want other people to pay YOUR way.

A rich person's life won't change one bit? Your complete and utter lack of perspective is only over-shadowed by your sense of entitlement.

You pay your own way. Next you want me to pay your electric bill? Water bill? New shoes???

Fascist moron, the CBO already determined that Medicare for All would cut costs of healthcare significantly. Thanks for playing.

That's how it works in every so-called first-world country, fascist moron.

Obamacare was gutted and watered down because it needed to pass. Then the Republicans struck down the individual mandate a few years ago.

"THE HEALTHCARE WE DIDN'T VOTE FOR AND THAT WE ARE ACTIVELY SABOTAGING DOESN'T WORK! HA, TOLD YOU SO! HURR DURR, I AM VERY SMART, GO BACK TO GRADE SCHOOL NOW."

Now the real death panels are the private insurance companies, who decide who lives and dies. Who knows how many people have died due to lack of healthcare or substandard care. I know a fascist like you doesn't care at all.

Although healthcare expenditure per capita is higher for the United States than any other country, over 37 million Americans are entirely without health insurance and 41 million more have inadequate access to care. Whereas ongoing efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act would exacerbate healthcare inequities, a universal system, such as that proposed in the Medicare for All Act (MAA), has the potential to transform the availability and efficiency of American healthcare. Taking into account both the costs of coverage expansion as well as savings that would be achieved through the MAA, we calculate that a single-payer, universal healthcare system is likely to lead to a 13% savings in national healthcare expenditure, equivalent to over $450 billion annually. The entire system could be funded with less financial outlay than is currently incurred by employers and households through healthcare premiums, as well as existing government allocations. This shift to single-payer healthcare would provide the greatest relief to lower-income households. Furthermore, we estimate that ensuring healthcare access for all Americans would save over 68,000 lives and 1.73 million life-years every year.

The fragmented and inefficient healthcare system in the United States leads to many preventable deaths and unnecessary costs every year. Universal healthcare could have alleviated the mortality caused by a confluence of negative COVID-related factors. Incorporating the demography of the uninsured with age-specific COVID-19 and nonpandemic mortality, we estimated that a single-payer universal healthcare system would have saved 212,000 lives in 2020 alone. We also calculated that US$105.6 billion of medical expenses associated with COVID-19 hospitalization could have been averted by a Medicare for All system.