Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "US Vaccine Rollout Is Abysmal" video.

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  22.  @thefelix7767  one reason why healthcare is so expensive is that even though medicare pays a lot, they still pay 40% less than private insurance. Why? Well, in the 70s and early 80s healthcare providers were sucking Medicare dry. They were over treating patients and having them stay in hospitals for too long. And why should the patient care, they were not paying. So in the 80s bipartisan reform was done saying Medicare will essentially only pay X amount. So that means Medicare pays, overall, 40% less than private insurance. Another reason is that many visit the ER and do not pay. I went to the ER recently. They gave me care and then charged me. I did not have to pay right away and if I did not pay they cannot do anything. So in the end what healthcare providers do is jack up prices for others. You see, in a way we do have universal healthcare in that regards. Compare it to this. Say you ran a restaurant. There, you have a set of customers that pay 40% less, mixed in with the fact you have to serve customers first and then charge them where a good portion do not pay. What will you do? For those who do pay you will charge more. " If we expanded coverage for everyone then we would have an influx of less costly patients that would make the overall system cheaper on average per patient. " Not true. One, the "less costly patients" will be younger ones that pay very little taxes to begin with. So now you will be covering them when they pay essentially zero. So now you doubled down on the system on that you have the retired who are getting care while paying zero, and the young as well. You made the system more expensive.
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  27.  @baburnit  " It would be asinine to assume that what I have listed will not improve communities and the well-being of the citizens of that community - especially in contrast to more militarized police." It depends on the community. Would a government managed program work better or some charity and volunteer system? And I did not misunderstood what you meant by funding and reliability. It is an argument I hear from the left all the time. They complain that a system will work better if it is funded better. That, to me, says that government programs are poorly mismanaged as a whole, they can't be creative and cannot make best use of their resources. This is why so many say government programs are inefficient. There are others but that is one. I work at a university, not a top tier one thus we do not have much money. We have to become creative in how we build our instruments. We are not like MIT that has a plethora of money laying around. Thus, a lot of times we find cheap equipment online and become creative. And please, list the studies. I will love to read them. Overall, though, it is not a black and white as you make it out to be. Just throwing money at an issue does not mean it will improve, especially if it is a failing system to begin with. Also, the private sector has participated in local community efforts. Let me ask you, how often have you participated in your local community? I do a lot and see a lot of donations from private businesses. You bring up "militarized police departments", I did not know the police had F-21 fighter jets and access to nuclear warheads. "there are hundreds of sociologists, historians, and public policy experts that have documented the impact of policing and the gutting of public services in the past 50 years." Then list me a few and I can follow the paper trail.
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