There's a national problem here, alright, but hardly the one Bernie Sanders thinks it is. The problem is one Paul and I have written about often: Cratering standards. When we're willing to tolerate (indeed, increasingly celebrate) fat bodies instead of taut ones (you know, "fat shaming" is so awful); sit around looking at the smart phone all day; and think that taking a few "recreational" drugs is OK, this is what you're going to get. Fat people and druggies don't live real long lives, as we've known since forever, and accepting this stuff as just an "alternative life style" toward which we dare not be "judgmental" essentially guaranteed what we're getting now.
That's the problem with the mainstream left in a nutshell. They think everything can be fixed with a government program. And by government program they mean of course establishing an inevitably corrupt money pit. Perhaps if they created a team of 500 Daniel PatrickMoynahans and actually listened to and implemented their suggestions even if they were politically inconvienient a government program could help. In point of fact, it's probably the understandable loss of faith in government and all authoritative institutions that is contributing to this.
Bernie's dream of socialized medicine - Medicare for all - is just that - a dream. If we enacted such a plan, within a very few years - I'd guess 2 or 3 - it would mimic the UK's or Mexico's. Last year I was told about a young man who was struck by a car in a city in Mexico.
I asked about how he was faring and was told that he was covered by the government plan there and could get care w/o any payment. But there was a catch: He was seen and his broken leg taken care of as an emergency BUT he couldn't get it set for 10 days unless he could travel 200+ miles to another clinic. OK, but if he could afford to see a doctor in private pay, it could be taken care of much sooner.
Ah, so you have socialized medicine for the masses and private insurance for those with resources. Not quite what Bernie is promoting, is it?
There's a national problem here, alright, but hardly the one Bernie Sanders thinks it is. The problem is one Paul and I have written about often: Cratering standards. When we're willing to tolerate (indeed, increasingly celebrate) fat bodies instead of taut ones (you know, "fat shaming" is so awful); sit around looking at the smart phone all day; and think that taking a few "recreational" drugs is OK, this is what you're going to get. Fat people and druggies don't live real long lives, as we've known since forever, and accepting this stuff as just an "alternative life style" toward which we dare not be "judgmental" essentially guaranteed what we're getting now.
That's the problem with the mainstream left in a nutshell. They think everything can be fixed with a government program. And by government program they mean of course establishing an inevitably corrupt money pit. Perhaps if they created a team of 500 Daniel PatrickMoynahans and actually listened to and implemented their suggestions even if they were politically inconvienient a government program could help. In point of fact, it's probably the understandable loss of faith in government and all authoritative institutions that is contributing to this.
Leading from behind.., equity..,, DEI - all are lethal bullets to the heart of our country and our culture
Bernie's dream of socialized medicine - Medicare for all - is just that - a dream. If we enacted such a plan, within a very few years - I'd guess 2 or 3 - it would mimic the UK's or Mexico's. Last year I was told about a young man who was struck by a car in a city in Mexico.
I asked about how he was faring and was told that he was covered by the government plan there and could get care w/o any payment. But there was a catch: He was seen and his broken leg taken care of as an emergency BUT he couldn't get it set for 10 days unless he could travel 200+ miles to another clinic. OK, but if he could afford to see a doctor in private pay, it could be taken care of much sooner.
Ah, so you have socialized medicine for the masses and private insurance for those with resources. Not quite what Bernie is promoting, is it?