How to reduce health costs by 90%

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Gnizmo said:

TheRealMafoo said:

ManusJustus said:

I trust democratic governments over corporations and dictatorships, because a democratic government answers to me.

 

You don't think corporations answer to you? I have very little control over my government (1 vote). I have massive control over my corporations (I give them my business, or I don't).

And yes, the US is not the Deomcracy I want it to be. Not because we have never been there, but because we keep moving away from what made it great. National heathcare is one step farther away from what it once was.

 Socializing health care is in no way, shape, or form moving away from being a democracy. We have also never been a democracy. The idea was tossed out the window when someone realized people are too stupid to fully govern themselves. That train of thought is the exact reason we have the electoral college.

 I have thought of a massive problem with your system though. Trvelling between cities and states would cause countless deaths. If I suffer a heart attack, break my leg, or any number of other health emergencies in a city without my paricular chain of McHospotals what happens? Fully privatizing health care would be dsiasterous.

Actually the reason we have the electoral college is protecting smaller states from bigger ones, rural areas from urban ones... and slavery.

Which really was a subset of protecting smaller states from bigger ones.

Since the small states had more slaves... who were counted a 2/3rds of a vote for the electoral college.

Nobody actually wanted to give the slaves an actual 2/3rds of a vote for anything, cause then slavery wouldn't exist.  While giving slave owners direct credit over there slaves votes would give them well too much power... compared to the other rich men in the south.