Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Fox News Doctor Defends Medicaid Cuts With Dumb Arguments" video.

  1. Kyle has it wrong. People on Medicaid do not want to get a job or earn more because the moment they earn more their benefits drop greatly. It becomes an all or nothing situation. It isn't about them getting employer based healthcare. It is about them earning too much. Next, employers offer healthcare insurance because it is a tax free way to pay employees. That is because of the payroll tax. The payroll tax taxes payroll as in wages, but not benefits. That is why businesses offer benefits. Now the solution is to remove the payroll tax which will allow businesses to pay a higher wage. But the left does not want that. The right has countered with taxing healthcare benefits but that allows the left to cry foul. Employers offering healthcare is a problem that has been mentioned by the political right, but the solution is getting rid of the payroll tax which no one mentions. Healthcare is not a right. Rights are things the government can't take. The "bells and whistles" are the bureaucrats involved in government ran healthcare.
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  2. A lot of people who earn high income are very charitable in society. They donate their money to needy causes. I am pushing to become well off financially so I can spend my money the way I want and not have the government do it.
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  3. By Kyle? I agree.
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  4. Police departments are locally ran and funded. Fire department are locally ran and funded where 70% of fire fighters are volunteer and in some places they are privately funded. Also, healthcare is a much more complex situation then police and fire. Do you think you can get 70% of doctors to be volunteer? Those that compare healthcare to the police and fire department display a high level of ignorance.
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  5. "Healthcare SHOULD be a right," It isn't. A right is something the government can't take away from you without due process. It doesn't guarantee you anything. You have a right to free speech, but that does not mean the government gives you a radio show. "I would MUCH rather we have single payer, so when I get to 50 employees I won't have to pay for their benefits on top of whay I already pay them" Or you can oppose Obamacare and the payroll tax which will remove healthcare insurance from businesses. " We all pay enough taxes, the government can stop wasting money on useless wars and foreign bases and weapons that don't get used and start taking care of our citizens healthcare and education." We are running a deficit so we are not paying enough. Also, defense spending has been dropping for years. Education spending is higher then defense spending in terms of percent GDP.
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  6. Gage, thanks for adding an intelligent thought to this discussion.
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  7. Hawksm278, you can replace the payroll tax with income taxes. The biggest source of revenue for the federal government is the income tax. http://www.cbpp.org/research/policy-basics-where-do-federal-tax-revenues-come-from And you wouldn't have to raise the rate that much as people will be earning a higher wage if you remove the payroll tax.
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  8. Healthcare is not a right. Rights are things the government can't take away from you without due process. You have a right to free speech, but that does not mean the government gives you a TV show. You have the right to bear arms, but the government does not give you a gun. The only right we have in this country that requires someone's service is the right to a jury of your peers. If you are selected for jury duty and you refuse you go to jail. So if you make healthcare a right, which requires someone's service, and a doctor refuses to help someone, does that doctor go to jail?
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  9. "Here I disagree, we as a nation agree what can be a right and what can't be. " Rights in the US are things that the government can't take away without due process. And when you look at the first rights they gave power to the people over government. The right to free speech allows us to say "fuck the government" without being arrested. The right to bear arms is to prevent tyranny. The right against search and seizure is to prevent the government from just randomly searching our private property. "Example, free speech is granted as a right HOWEVER we as a nation have decided that you can't go into a theater and scream "FIRE!!!!" " No rights are without limit. When you are in public you can influence other people. Thus laws are created that on the surface may seem to violate amendments in the Constitution, but they end up being on a level where they don't because you are participating in the public. That is why we have anti-discrimination laws on businesses. That is why DUI checkpoints are not unconstitutional. That is why we have CCW laws. In each one those laws do not violate the Constitution. On the business regulations, you still can pursue happiness as a business owner, but you have to follow the law of serving everyone. That is applied to all businesses equally and does not harm the profits of your business. On DUI checkpoints, it is enforced on everyone equally and it does not lead to the searching of your car. It is simply seeing if you are complying with the law while driving in public. They are not searching you nor the car. With CCW's you can still own a gun, you just can't carry it conceal in public without a license. Also, on yelling "fire", that is arguably a call to action and not free speech. That is no different then threatening someone with violence or using a gun to murder someone. You have the right to bear arms, you don't have the right to murder. You have the right to free speech, you don't have a right to threaten someone or induce a riot. "As a society, we are starting to change into a mindset that healthcare is a right and isn't something that should be profit for." Based on recent elections I would say no. "This is where almost all other nations have gone and where I predict we will be in roughly 20-30 years. " Other nations have different cultures. And only one country with over 90 million people have universal healthcare and is considered to be a success as a country, and that is Japan. And Japan is facing problems. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/19/national/japans-buckling-health-care-system-crossroads/#.WVl0lEZ8pjY "Again, the constitution was not written by gods, " I agree, but the fundamental idea of it must be held. That idea was to limit government. That is what you have to understand. Rights that were created were not arbitrary. They exist to limit government.
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