Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Ralph Nader: “Democratic Party Stop Scapegoating u0026 Look In The Mirror!”" video.

Three reasons why they cannot win are 1. Democrats lost touch with the common man by hanging out with elitists 2. They have gone too far left. When Bernie is one of your top candidates that is a problem 3. Identity politics and SJWS
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Anger, your "decent wage", despite the vagueness of the word "decent", is due to strong unions with zero influence from government. Our unions are corrupt with government influence. Your wages are a result of the free market of negotiation. Bernie wants the complete opposite of that. Your healthcare system has many problems. Despite that, proposing a complete transformation of any healthcare system will cause a major recession. That is extreme. Going to medicare for all in the US is just as extreme as you guys going to a more private system. Difference is in the US we have 320+ million people with a nearly $20 trillion economy.
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Israel, I opposed corporate welfare. I support a "living wage". I just understand that 1. The term "living wage" is 100% subjective 2. The free market does a better job at getting that
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" the free market has never nor will it ever do a better job of providing quality healthcare at a reasonable cost." Why not? " Healthcare, like education, should not have a profit motive nor be subject to humans' inherent greed." And it is greedy for people to find the best quality healthcare and education at an affordable price. Consumers are greedy as well. ". There is absolutely zero reason for health insurance companies to exist." Sometimes healthcare demand is inelastic, insurance counters that.
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"so you're fine with a society that bases the quality and depth of healthcare available on a person's ability to pay for it?" First rule of economics, there is no such thing as a free lunch. You are going to pay one way or another. Whether is be with money or quality, you will pay. "And incidentally it's why the top performing countries RE quality of healthcare and best health outcomes have a version of socialized healthcare" That is not true at all. Those nations face many problems such as less R&D, lower cancer survival rate, longer wait times, etc. " Your theory simply doesn't stand up to documented facts. " Like what? Here is a good book for you to read http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/-the-business-of-health_110115929760.pdf " If you truly believed in competition then why not support the Public Option?" Because public options can pull down the middle class. I support a public option if people who use it pay into it. I also have a problem with insurance companies but feel a free market can solve our problems.
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Who is popular?
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Bernie Sanders is a joke. There is a lot of dirt on him that if he were ever to be challenged by the RNC people would hate him.
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Israel, if there is any party for the rich it is the democrats. During the election Clinton was hanging around rich celebrities and had no desire to rally with the middle class. Bernie sold his book in Walmart and made a million dollars and bought a third home. He did all of that while preaching about going after the Walton family and wealth redistribution. Bernie was so set on attacking the rich he bought a third home to make sure a rich person does not buy it.
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Seriously, Kyle really needs to stop citing polls. They are unreliable. Also, pushing for radical left ideas like medicare for all and a "living wage" will kill the democrats. And the last thing you should do is remove the electoral college. Removing the electoral college will do way more harm than good.
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They are not the standard by the rest of the world.
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"what you call "radical left ideas" is the standart of the industrialised world" Depends. For developed nations it isn't.
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"so to you, the following are "free lunches": law enforcement, national security, the courts, public education, access to clean water, infrastructure like roads, bridges, tunnels etc, sanitation services, etc etc I can go on." Most of those things are ran locally, such as law enforcement, education, water, roads, etc. Others are constitutional like defense. I never said we should not have government. There is value in having government and government programs. But we need to keep them as local as possible as they are best ran that way, and government needs to be confined to the limits of the Constitution. However, pointing to locally ran programs to push for federal healthcare is a poor argument. Those programs are not nearly as complex as healthcare. Last I checked police officers do not need around 10 years of post high school training to become a cop. Doctors do. "And BTW, I have a degree in economics and THAT IS NOT THE FIRST RULE OF ECONOMICS. The first rule of economics is supply and demand. The cost of a service/good is relative to the demand for it and it's availability. " Uh, it is pretty well known that there is no such thing as a free lunch. http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/articles/99/Econ-101.htm "e've consistently ranked last in HEALTH CARE ACCESS, COSTS, HEALTH OUTCOMES, AND HEALTH RELATED PREVENTABLE DEATHS for industrialized nations and even behind some non-industrialized ones" Here is the problem with rankings and the lists you gave. Anyone can create any list they want where the US can be number 1. There are many factors the contribute to the numbers. For example, if you remove car accidents and murders the US is number 1 in life expectancy. Life expectancy is always weighted high in those rankings. As a whole those rankings are arbitrary. The WHO ranking was criticized so much that they have not created on in almost 20 years. And how is the CWF credible? I keep seeing this link but no one has yet to lay out their credentials. But again, those rankings are arbitrary. I can create a ranking where the US is number 1 or last. You can do that with stats. That is what the authors of that book linked you did. The problem with the public option and having people pay for it with taxes is that it brings the middle class down. In comparison to K-12 education, around 90% of kids go to public schools. Only the rich an well off can afford to go to a private school. Healthcare is not a right, period.
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