Comments by "Ōkami-san" (@mweibleii) on "Ann Coulter: Bernie Sanders will be Hard to Beat..." video.

  1. LOl Bernie Sanders and Thom are clueless. Yes, EVERYONE wants to ensure no one goes without good affordable healthcare. Turing our crony low quality high cost DiseaseCare into a Public scheme is NOT going to do that. I've live in multiple countries, some with 'free' public healthcare. I can safely say this much: Most (not all) aspects of 'free' healthcare is crap and you would never want to be treated in those public hospitals. Most people, who can afford to, either go to Private or go overseas for treatment. This is particularly true in Western countries were the public hospitals are staffed with the bottom of the barrel surgeons who weren't successful enough to open a private practice or the ones being trained on the 'free' patients. In some rare instances Public was better than Private. Particular when providing some forms of care for the elderly and children. In general, no, it's horrible care. In Japan, Public healthcare is pretty decent. But, this is due to the Japanese system of shaming people who suck.  Since most of you lap up the Demagoguery, have zero experience with any aspect of healthcare (other than you want it for free), I'll leave you to mull these ideas over with your magic thought of Progressive Paradise: 1. If you have some money, you ARE FREE to leave your tax farm and go overseas. We actually did this (went to Japan 4 years ago, great treatment in a Japanese PRIVATE hospital, cheap too). Why don't we allow for this freedom INSIDE the USA? Why not allow so called 'free' Americans the 'freedom' to buy and sell medical care without the need of the AMA licences? Americans can go to Mexico for unlicensed care, most don't. Most don't need a Nanny to tell them not to.  2. Medical care is blowing out the budgets of many Western nations (ours included). What happens, in the real world, is less money is spent on other social services like Universities and K-12. Which means a lower quality medical doctor. I've personally seen this happen. 3. If you think Private Monopolies are bad now, wait until we give the Government a total Public Monopoly. ALL of the evil little monopolists that would be working in a company, simply swim over to the State and run the agencies - they pay themselves sweet 6 figure salaries with massive benefits (the likes of which you couldn't imagine) for providing the lowest quality crap healthcare you could imagine. They aren't just as bad as these Crony CEOs - they ARE the same people! The care will be worse - much worse.  Bernie can spin you promises of 'free' high quality cheap healthcare all day long - of course, he's not actually DOING anything medical related himself.... no no no, that's hard work. It's so much easier to spin bullshit promises to the unwashed masses tales of how the Great Redistribution machine is going to magically make cheap high quality healthcare happen - well, sorry, not going to happen. You'll see. Note: Currently, in our AMA regulated healthcare (they'll also 'regulate' the Government Care - and do) about 80,000 Americans die each year due to medical error and another 3 - 5 million suffer life long injuries. Once the Government has a total monopoly, expect these numbers to increase 10 x in the next generation.
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  2. Rt Gall As you 12? I just wrote a long post detailing why we need free markets INSIDE the USA and you puke up a one liners about how I therefor think the "wealthy should get anything they want and the rest of us should die quietly". Yeah, that's what I think. I think the wealthy should get anything and everything they want. I mean, Jesus. 
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  3. Rt Gall We don't have a free market in healthcare, so how would you know if a free market would work. The reason why healthcare is expensive is because it's limited by the AMA - on purpose. As an example, many cities are BY LAW restricted in the number of fMRI that can be purchased and used to service the public. This is to ensure the business interests of those who own fMRI.  If you think waving a magic wand called 'free', pointing it at healthcare and poof you're getting high quality healthcare, then you're deluded. What will happen is healthcare costs will go up and quality will go down. One day in the future being free won't be good enough, you'll complain it shouldn't be legal for some people to decide to buy private healthcare.  You'll see.  It should be noted that in AU, the budget is being wrecked by free healthcare and so people are being forced to go with less and pay much more. 
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