Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Trump's Idiotic Smear Of Universal Health Care" video.

  1. A bit deceptive. The publicly funded research is very broad. I have an NIH grant so technically that is a part of healthcare research. However I am not producing any new drug. My research is one piece of a complex puzzle in science. Pharma companies do research producing drugs which is expensive.
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  2. Rory, if you remove car accidents and murders from every nation the US is number 1 in life expectancy. Guess what, other factors besides healthcare contribute to life expectancy. That concludes your stat lesson for the day.
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  3. " Socialized health care offers superior care at a lower cost. " Not true.
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  4. " inelastic demand is predatory towards the consumer. Change my mind." That is why insurance companies exist. Problem is that we do not have a free market system in insurance and healthcare.
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  5. People do not understand healthcare because it is a complex system. It is 16% of our GDP and in other nations it is around 10% of their's. In comparison in the US education is around 5%, defense is around 4%, housing is around 5%, and so on. Just by the size in our economy one can see how complex it is. Now consider also the workers in healthcare go to school for years. Around 4 years of undergrad, and then med school of some kind (pharmacy, nursing, etc.), then residency. Add in that in healthcare you are dealing with evolving diseases and a complex human body we know very little about. It is not easy to deal with. When I hear people, on both sides, talk about healthcare it is annoying as they over simplify it. But it is really annoying hearing the left do it as they feel we can just go to universal healthcare and things would be all better. And their argument is "other countries do it" while ignoring how they do it, what results they have ,their issues they face, and how the system actually works. I use a "free" healthcare system in the US through my university. It is OK but not great. I use one I have to pay for off campus. It is much better. More personal and catered to me. The "free" one isn't.
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  6. Mag Dee, population size matters a lot. More people means more bogging the system down. Also you have a greater diversity which adds complexity to the system.
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