Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Left STANDS UP To Pelosi And WINS On Tax Rule" video.
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@henrygustav7948 , that 45,000 has been criticize a lot. One, no healthcare system covers everyone where people die due to it. In Australia up to 7000 people die a year while waiting for "elective" surgery. People die in Canada waiting for "elective" heart surgery. So here are the problems with that 45,000 stat
1. What do you have to compare that to? No similar study was done in other nations making that stat what I like to call an "empty stat". You don't know if that 45,000 is high, low, or the norm as you have nothing to compare it to. It is similar to me saying I pay $700 a month in rent. You can't tell off of that if I am paying too much, if I am getting a good deal or if I am paying average. Is it bad that people die? Yes. But reality is that it happens in all nations so you need to compare that 45,000 to something. It would be great is that 45,000 was zero and it would also be great is we can teleport.
2. Those 45,000 are poor and bad health is associated with being poor. Poor people have higher rates of obesity, smoking and type II diabetes, all self inflicted. So you can't say if they die due to lack of access to healthcare or due to being in bad health to begin with. This study
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1212321
Showed that when you gave access to healthcare to people in poverty their physical health did not improve raising the question of will they even live if they had access as they are in bad healthcare to begin with? Maybe they do, but that raises the next question in how long will they live, and what condition will they be in? Read the book entitled "Being Moral" where the author there discusses people who are near death and the many challenges they face. One point he makes is that people look at modern medicine to live another 5 or 10 years but in reality they may live only 5 or 10 months. So if you give access to healthcare to those 45,000 and they live, on average, an extra 3 months, was that a success? How about if during that time they bring a lot of stress to their friends and family? Is that a success?
There are arguments to be made in helping those people. There is a strong argument to be made in reducing financial stress on the poor, something included in that study I linked. I support those arguments. I have look at this issue deeply and see the other side of the argument. The problem is that the left hardly has looked at this issue.
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@henrygustav7948
1. You can't say that as there are other factors at play. They are poor and bad health is associated with those in poverty. The question becomes do they die due to lack of access or due to being in bad health to begin with? As I pointed out in that study I linked, even with access to healthcare their physical health was still bad. And as I said by pointing out the book "Being Mortal", people who are near death have many issues they face and will not really live that much longer. So if you give them access to healthcare and they live a few months longer, is that a success? That is a legit debate to have.
2. The Federal Reserve controls the money supply.
3. The "empty homes" are mainly unlivable homes that you can buy for $100. Yes, we have food waste, we also have an obesity problem with the poor. We lack skilled workers such as doctors, engineers, those in the STEM fields, etc. I work in the STEM field. I work 12 hour days at times. I worked from 9 AM to 3 AM yesterday (that is not a typo, I worked until 3 in the morning) and I came back to work at 9 AM today and I am here collecting more data as I type this. Now I love my work and want a PhD that is actually worth something, but at the same time I do what I do because not many can. There is so much research and progress to be done but not enough skilled workers to do it. These things don't magically appear out of the air.
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