Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Cenk Uygur Vs CNN's Anti-Bernie Sanders Bias" video.
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"Much of the corruption in politics stems from politicians being
dependent on outside money to maintain and increase their personal
power. This works in direct opposition to what they are supposed to do.
Politicians are supposed to represent the people who elect them, but
they are instead working for the people who fund them. Bernie's proposed
solution to this is to move to publicly funded campaigns, and
eliminating the ability for wealthy groups to leverage their wealth for
political influence. In this way, politicians will have to rely not only
on the peoples favor, but on the peoples money as well. If they want to
keep their job, they should better represent the people. "
Who runs the money in publicly funded campaigns? This seems like another way for both the republicans and democrats to create a system that favors then and keeps any outsider out, also known as establishment politics. In this situation Bernie would have never have gotten funding to run at all meaning he would have not been heard. So, who runs the publicly funded campaigns?
"By instituting a tax that goes into a public fund for campaigns, lesser
known individuals have a better chance to get their ideas heard. "
How? If you are not a democrat or a republican then you don't get funded. This seems like another way for the corrupt politicians to change the game in their favor.
"Now, on to federal control over healthcare and higher education. The
problem with healthcare is that there is currently no one representing
the people when it comes to negotiating prices. Prices are dictated by a
combination of pharmaceutical companies, doctors, and insurance
companies. If you believe that a completely free market will dictate the
proper price of healthcare, then you are ignoring a very important
factor in that supply and demand curve. "
If you think we have a free market in healthcare then you are wrong. Due to the payroll tax our healthcare system has become a mess, that is the fault of the federal government. I can get into details but to save space and time I will simply ask these two questions
1. Why do so many people depend on their employers for healthcare? or Why do so many employers pay with healthcare benefits instead of higher wages?
2. Why has healthcare insurance become healthcare?
To answer those questions you have to realize what the payroll tax is and what it led to.
". That factor is the perceived value of human life. Most people value
their own life highly, and are willing to spend any amount of money to
maintain it. This is a highly exploitable factor, one that
pharmaceutical companies take into account"
We are a nation that is over drugged in my opinion, and as Bil Maher put it, we eat shit. A lot of medications and medical procedures are unnecessary to begin with.
"Originally, I suspect health insurance companies were supposed to barter
with pharmaceutical companies on behalf of their customers, but a lack
of credible competition has stagnated the pool of options, and many
insurance companies work more like an oligopoly than anything else."
There is a lack of competition due to the two questions I asked. People are at the mercy of their employer in terms of healthcare. It goes back to anyone that thinks we have a free market healthcare system clearly does not understand what is going on in our system.
"The proposed solution to this problem, is a single payer program. In
this scenario, the government works as the negotiator between the
populace and the pharmaceutical companies. "
Going back to what you said about supply and demand, as is we lack resources in healthcare. For example we lack doctors. I always wonder how many Bernie supporters are going to study to be doctors or work in medicine? I find that question to be condescending but you can answer if you want. But what it does it relates back to that Bernie supporters feel that the resources out there and that we just need to pry them out. That isn't true. With single payer you will increase demand while not increasing supply leading to higher prices or lower quality. That is the system Bernie supporters are pushing without wanting to take action themselves to increase resources.
"Now I admit, this will not work if there is rampant corruption in the
government, but this only strengthens the argument to eliminate
corruption in the government, which was partially addressed already. If
the government represents the people, then it should negotiate the price
of healthcare closer the cost of producing healthcare, instead of
further into the realm of exploiting the value of life."
Your "proposed solution" to ending corruption will actually increase corruption by creating even more establishment in politics. Do you really thing the DNC or RNC will allow a Bernie Sanders to be funded to run?
"Much like healthcare, the value of education is easily exploitable. It
is in part because of this, that the cost of education has gotten out of
control."
The cost of education has gotten out of control because of the student loan program. That increased the demand for education without increase supply. What happened is that the price went up.
"For one, he's trying to reduce government corruption."
How? By expanding the powers it has?
"As for dependency on the government, he's actually trying to turn that
around. Instead of people being dependent on the government, he's trying
to make the government dependent on the people."
How? By allowing it to have more of our money and by having the mercy of our healthcare and education be in the hands of the government?
"I would also like to address, what I feel is, an unasked question? That
being, "Why do we need to expand government?" I don't want government
expansion for the sake of expansion, but I understand that in this world
of increased globalization, we need a competent and functioning
government to protect our interests within the world, and organize our
efforts. Without this, we will falter behind more organized governments.
To stay competitive, there will need to be some amount of expansion of
government, but we need to stay vigilant in making sure that it does not
get out of control, and accurately represents the people."
We don't need an expansion of government. What you have to understand is that too much government is just as bad as no government. As of now we have too much government. Almost everything the federal government touches breaks. Adding more federal government is going to make our current problems worse while creating new ones.
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