Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Ding Dong The Obamacare Repeal Is Dead" video.

  1. There is a desire to have government, even Milton Friedman said that. However, it needs to be a local as possible in ensure it serves the people and not become the masters. The problems with healthcare stems from the federal government. Adding more federal government is not the solution.
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  2. There is still a chance to repeal it. We will see how 2018 comes and see how many seats republicans pick up. If republicans pick up more seats then it will be presented again.
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  3. lcearchon, in my opinion the problems with healthcare is the payroll tax. I highlight the problems with two questions 1. Why do so many employers pay with healthcare insurance as opposed to a higher wage? 2. Why does healthcare insurance equal healthcare? Covering those two points accounts for inelastic demand you bring up. On question one, businesses do it because it is a 100% tax free way in paying employees. With the payroll tax a higher wage means a higher tax, but benefits are not payroll. Thus they are not taxed. That creates problems. The consumer cannot pick the plan they want. They are restricted to the plan the company gives them. They cannot force insurance companies to compete which will lower prices and increase quality. Also, if they change jobs they have to change plans. What it also does is that it makes insurance to be healthcare. That is point two. Insurance should be there to cover unplanned, expensive cases like car insurance covers car accidents. But car insurance does not cover a broken head light, tire rotations, oil changes, etc. All necessary to have the car running efficiently and safely. Healthcare insurance should cover only emergencies and other issues such as routine checkups, pregnancies, elective surgery, it should be paid for out of pocket. With that you can have providers compete which will lower prices. LASIK is not covered by insurance. It has improved in quality and lowered in prices for years. There will be instances of people who are young that refuse to get insurance. At that point that is on them. Nothing is ideal. People who look towards the government for the ideal case is delusional. However, I feel the best system is the free market system. We can have government involvement, but it should be at the state and local level to ensure government works for us. But that is another discussion. But in the end, the problem to me is that right now the consumers of healthcare do not have the ability to negotiate prices or have companies compete.
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  4. People do not despise Trump. He is doing very well. If you look past the leftist bubbles of LA and NYC you would see that. Also, republicans typically do better in midterms because people who usually have more to lose vote in the midterms and those people typically lean right. They are people with jobs and money.
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  5. bao vinh, no one cares about his tax return. Scott Pruitt said climate change is happening. There is a lot of fake news happening. What do you mean fill the swamp? At least he is not hiring career politicians. He has been successful. Our economy is growing. Come 2020 people like you will be laughed at.
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  6. Preem, Obamacare was a Trojan Horse for single payer. It was designed to fail. It is killing insurance companies to where eventually the federal government will have to bail them out or just let them die creating a public option. I agree, the free market system is best. However, at this point, unless republicans pick up more seats in the Senate come 2018, we are eventually going to have single payer and a sub par healthcare system.
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  7. Lord Caelvanir, our healthcare was amazing for its time when it was free market. We have not had a free market system in over 50 years. Around half of healthcare spending if from the government. The problem is government. Adding more government will just make the problem worse.
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  8. Julias, the problem is that the consumer, meaning the average person, cannot negotiate healthcare prices. The main reason why is because of the payroll tax. Businesses pay with healthcare insurance as opposed to a higher wage meaning that the consumer cannot pick the plan they want. They are dependent on the plan the employer gives them. Also, since it is a form of payment healthcare insurance becomes healthcare. Insurance is not designed to function like that. As far as overhead is concern, a lot of spent on lowering premiums. "The only way to win for everybody is to get a universal health care system and take the private market out of it." Universal healthcare will make the situation worse as we have only one option. Providers will jack up prices. If they are forced to lower prices then they will lower quality. The best system is a free market system with any government involvement being from the states.
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  9. "Ok. The fact that you think government is in health care is a bad thing points that you clearly do not get health care. Government was part of health care way before Obama care" Which created the problems we had. "That is how they maintain standard medical practices across the board. How they make sure proper medicines are test before use. How drug are stated to be legal or not legally used. It's a mix of federal and state laws that are part of health care. " That isn't the problem. The problem is that the federal government has killed the competitive environment in healthcare. The main reason why is because of the payroll tax. Most people get insurance from their employers, so they cannot pick the plan they want. To highlight the problems of healthcare I ask two questions 1. Why do so many employers offer payment with healthcare insurance as opposed to a higher wage? 2. Why does healthcare insurance equal healthcare?
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  10. "You are stating that one can have a free market within an industry that provides inelastic goods and services. I hear what you are trying to say, but completely laissez-faire approach to healthcare inevitably results in millions of people being uninsured because they are either A. not responsible enough to buy into insurance while they are still healthy, or B. have to choose between decent health insurance or putting a roof over their head because real-wages*** for the majority of the country have dropped by over 30% the past three decades." Couple things. One, "real wages" have not been dropping that much. A main reason why is because of technology making things better and cheaper. A car today is cheaper then a car in the 70s and is much better. They are safer, last longer and get better mileage. We have the internet. We have high speed computers that fit in our pocket. The idea that wages have dropped is mainly a myth. Not saying it is a problem, but it isn't that major of an issue. Also, another reason for the lower wages is that they payroll tax was expanded in the 60s. Businesses instead pay with benefits such as healthcare insurance as opposed to wages. "What I'm saying is, I don't have a good answer here, but the system we currently have is even more wasteful than if we have a strong government agency that had strong negotiation power provisions to negotiate directly with healthcare providers, medical device manufactures, and drug companies, which are currently getting away with murder on their pricing structures, with double digit percent price increases on care happening annually because they can get away with it and insurance companies just absorb it regardless. " The problem is government as we do not have negotiating power because of the payroll tax. I will cover that in another comment. However, thinking that the government can keep prices down is not going to happen. Businesses will just lower the quality. We see that with another form of price setting, the min. wage. With the increase in the min. wage businesses just cut hours. You enforce how much is paid per hour, but not per week. Or with rent control. With rent control apartments are not kept up because why would you do it? Why keep an apartment complex looking nice if you can't raise rent? The quality drops. "Healthcare is much more opaque and inelastic than a classical good or service like cars or shipping. " Not really, and I will explain why in the next comment.
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  11. Reality Forge, we do not have a free market system in healthcare. We haven't for decades.
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  12. bao vinh, the President can create the atmosphere for a strong economy. Obama did not due that as he was anti-business. Trump is pro-business. Even if Congress is stagnate, the idea that we have a pro-business president will lead to more investment and a strong economy.
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  13. Miles Dixon, Bill Clinton created a great atmosphere for businesses. He was a moderate that worked well with others. Obama wasn't. It isn't my defense, it is just pointing out a fact.
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  14. Jonathan, I told you how the polls have been wrong lately. Also, I love how I ripped you apart in another comment section and you have not responded. Tell me again, how is is that Robert Ohsfeldt and John Schneider do not understand healthcare when that is what their research involves? "Please get off of Youtube already" Why? Are you irritated that someone questions you? Are you triggered and need a safe space? Do you just want to live in a bubble? Face it, Trump won. Obama had a high approval rating, according to the polls leaving, but the democrats still lost. The polls have been wrong lately.
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  15. Now go hide Jonathan like you always do. In fact, to people responded to your comment in that last thread. Why haven't you responded to me or the other person? When you get teamed up do you get scared and hide from facts and reasoning?
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  16. Jonathan, as of now I have not seen a response. But I find it funny you tell me to not look pathetic when you told me to leave so you can live in your bubble.
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  17. Jonathan, I just checked and I did not see your response. You have also not answer my question about Robert Ohsfeldt and John Schneider and why they do not understand healthcare. I bet you think that Richard Feynman did not understand elementary particle physics as well. Try not to look pathetic.
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  18. davior86, these days they haven't. A main reason why is because of the transition of people going from left to right. Polls have shown that 2/3 of the country support socialized healthcare. But 80% of people voted against it in Colorado. Polls also showed that close to 90% of people support expanded background checks on guns. But a law like that did not pass in Maine (I think it was Maine) and in NV it passed with only 0.45% of support with many county sheriffs saying they will not even enforce it. These polls are only polling around 1000 people and they are phone polls that are unreliable to begin with, especially these days with cell phones. You have that mixed in with the fact that the country transitioned from slight left to now slightly right, the polls are not reliable.
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  19. Ok, Jonathan here we go again. Those polls are local polls which will be more accurate since you are sampling a specified sample size. However, look at healthcare. Polls said that 2/3 of the people want it. However, 80% voted against it in Colorado and the entire nation voted for republicans who ran on repealing Obamacare. On background checks on guns. Polls said that close to 90% wanted it. But in Maine it failed and in NV it passed by only 0.45%. The national polls have been wrong lately. Stop cherry picking. "Polls can be completely accurate if they poll 1000 people from different areas using random distributions and avoiding systematic error and biased on their part. " Polling 1000 people in a nation of 320+ million people is not accurate. When you go to the state level it can be more accurate as you have only a few million. But across the nation 1000 is too little. Even at that phone surveys with technology these days have many flaw. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17094769 " This is learned in a basic statistics class in undergrad, " Funny, considering one of my old bosses has a masters in statistics and disregards phone polls. " again get an education" I am a PhD candidate in physical chemistry. You, however, I question. Remember, you 1. Did not know that you can be covered off of your spouse's plan 2. Could not read and understand the Coloradocare plan 3. Could not read the book I cited 4. Felt that professors who do research related to healthcare know nothing about it "Lets take this argument for a logical spin, you literally just said the majority of the country polling wise supports Legislation X. However because a single state did not pass it, thus all polling is incorrect." Based on 1. A larger sample size 2. The major difference in the numbers (2/3 support it in the polls, 80% didn't) 3. The state is left leaning " I mean think about how stupid this statement is. " I don't see how. Also, Bernie Sanders won Colorado. "So far, you have cited no statistics, given no evidence to even support these numbers(as always)." Neither have you. I did, however, just gave you a link to a review on phone polling. "Then when citing these made up numbers, you don't even understand simple logic to extrapolate polling from it" I do. Funny how the polls are not matching voting results. Tell me again how a blue state, that voted for Bernie in the primaries, had 80% of the voters voting against single payer? ", it doesn't demonstrate anything since there would be 45 more(in this case, over 45) that haven't tried the healthcare bill. " Maybe because they don't want it? "Again the polls were accurate" Not really.
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  20. Jonathan, you have also not answer my question about Robert Ohsfeldt and John Schneider and why they do not understand healthcare. Why do you keep avoiding that question? I respond to everything you give me. You cherry pick on what you want to respond to.
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  21. Jonathan, if you want to look intelligent here you have to address the questions I ask and stop repeating the same things over and over again.
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  22. davlor86 Please explain
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  23. davlor86, a couple things. One, the link I gave was peer reviewed. Next, the link you gave mentioned the many flaws of phone polling these days which I brought up. Most polls being brought up by leftists like Kyle are phone polls. I suggest you read your own source closer instead of randomly googling some source you know nothing about. I know how polls work. I know the flaws of them. That article lays them out and we can see why many polls have been wrong lately. Again, read what you post because you clearly have no idea how polls work.
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  24. " Polls have been right in almost all presidential elections except in like 2, the 2016 being one of them obviously." And I have said that recently the polls have been wrong. I never said they are always wrong. I said they have been wrong recently. " But they were not that wrong actually, almost all of them said that Hillary was going to win the popular vote by like 2 or 3 points which was quite accurate, they only got it wrong with the electoral college" I agree, because with the electoral college you are focusing on states. You group is selective and specific. But on national polls they have been wrong lately, mainly on healthcare.
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