Comments by "No Fate But What We Make" (@SonoftheAllfather) on "Healthcare "Reform" Fails Again: Trump Encourages Total Repeal as Alternative" video.

  1. Staying on your parents plan until 26 is "a few extra years?" That's pathetic and promotes shiftless, parasitic behavior. A person is a young adult at 26 and should be fully independent. The only good thing about Obamacare was the preexisting condition part.
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  2. It doesn't mean universal until it's applied to the population universally. Btw, universal healthcare is fiscally impossible in the United States.
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  3. Galt's Gooch agreed. I'm an avid supporter of social Darwinism. And biological Darwinism for that matter.
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  4. Dark Child : Hahaha no, my friend, I'm not a Boomer. Does one have to be a Boomer to not leech off their parents until the age of 26? I'm not debasing myself. I'm not parasitic or shiftless. I don't fit that mold. The concept of using one's own resources rather than external help should not be ridiculed or dismissed. The phrase "pull oneself over a fence by one's bootstraps" originated in the 19th century. It was not coined or dogmatized by the Boomers. If anything, the Boomers are the facilitators of the trend that saw children living in their parent's houses and leeching off of their resources well into their twenties. I am advocating for bootstrap mentality because having this mentality and expecting the same from others creates a more viable, productive, and self sufficient society.
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  5. Karras we don't even have a socialized healthcare infrastructure, so really, we can't have something like what you have (I'm guessing you live in the UK) unless they invest trillions into some bureaucratic nightmare that would require further trillions to operate and maintain every year. We have socialized healthcare for veterans here, and that bureaucracy costs 166 billion a year to serve 8.7 million. If you used the same equation on 330 million, that's over 6 trillion per year. The closest thing we'll have to socialized healthcare in the future is something like Canada's Medicare, which is essentially the same thing as what we have for seniors over 65 here. They even call their healthcare Medicare in Canada. We have 55 million on Medicare. We have an additional 30 million poor and unemployed people on Medicaid, and almost 9 million veterans using VA Health. I think most people in other countries forget how many people there are here. Tens of millions of poor people, tens of millions of immigrants, tens of millions of elderly, tens of millions of unhealthy people. I think socialized healthcare in the U.S. would be unsustainable, personally.
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  6. Sith Lord : prevailaged? What is that? Someone who prevailed because they're privileged? lol How is it that young people can't spell, even with autocorrect features and spell checkers on YT? My Dad was a carpenter and my Mom was a preschool teacher. I grew up without health insurance. I went to a shitty public school system. Neither of my parents have retirement. I'll have no inheritance except their debt. I joined the military at 17. Now I have a Master's degree, a good job, health insurance, and my own business. I pay insurance premiums for my parents now. I'm 33. So yes, I'm very privileged. Privileged I live in the most powerful and wealthy nation in human history and I have so much opportunity and wealth mobility. Go fuck yourself turd boy. ;)
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  7. @ Doc Gonzales: Perhaps he is, but at least he's providing a service that has some value and is also generating some income.
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  8. Indeed. Take a look at the history of Lasik surgery. The free market has driven down the price to where it's affordable now. The entire healthcare industry should follow suit. If government has anything to do with healthcare, it should be in regulating pharmaceuticals and insurance companies, making sure they aren't Jewing us at every turn.
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  9. Kenneth Clark it's not cosmetic, it's a corrective procedure. You think people get Lasik just because they don't like how they look in glasses? It wouldn't matter even if it was cosmetic, the principle is the same. The majority of healthcare visits and procedures are not due to life threatening conditions. If the free market was allowed to regulate healthcare, it would become affordable enough for most people to pay for it. I work in the healthcare industry, and this is the opinion of every doctor I know with a brain.
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  10. "The phrase is constantly used by Boomers"...oh them! ...you mean the same generation that facilitated the counterculture movement and created and championed all of the retarded Leftist ideologies and policies that completely subverted the popularity of this mantra? Hmmm... you know...you seem like a smart dude...so I'm sure you've noticed that the majority of people don't practice what they preach, right? But does that mean the message they're preaching is wrong, or does is just mean that the messenger is a complete hypocrite and fraud? Can you see why I think your argument is a little flimsy, my friend? Btw: I prefer to not label myself as a follower of any ism, but my views would be best described as nationalist with a smattering of right leaning libertarianism.
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  11. Dark Child I can relate to that. Not trying to sound preachy, it's just what I believe and how I live. Personally, this mentality has helped me in life. I think part of why people find it hard to succeed these days is that things are worse, and part of it is that our society is getting progressively more entitled, degenerated, and lazy. Even in this version of the U.S., we have so much more opportunity than the majority of the world. The majority of government intervention serves simply to subsidize, and as a result, incentivize, human failure. The Boomers betrayed us with their utopian lies and subsequent neoliberal economics and neocon warmongering. But the worst thing they did was insist on telling us to just "follow our dreams" and we can all be astronauts and famous musicians and star athletes. So instead of taking opportunity when it presents itself and grasping it, working hard for success, young people now go into student loan debt getting useless degrees that serve only to further indoctrinate them with cultural Marxist mind poison. Our parents no doubt left us with a disaster, but it will take a bootstrap mentality to crawl out of the metaphorical slime pit of a predicament into which they bore us, in my opinion.
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  12. @ Dark Child: I don't understand what you're trying to say.
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