Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "US Vaccine Rollout Is Abysmal" video.
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@zachthamm9595 I disagree with you on Trump voters as I am one myself. I can easily argue those that opposed him have been brainwashed by the media and have TDS. But I will not get into that. I will say my distrust is based on
1. How many government officials, mainly democrats, enforced these rules but did not follow them themselves. Such as Newsom, or Lightfoot getting a hair cut, or Pelosi getting a hair cut, or Steve Adler telling people not to travel but saying it from his time share home in Mexico, or recently how Mayor deBlasio told us peasants not to visit Time Square on NYE so him, his wife and some friends can enjoy it without us.
2. How much the narrative change from going to deaths, to only cases, to it was only supposed to last 2 weeks, now the vaccine is going slow so we have to wait longer to now a new strain is out
3. How many experts were censored but ones like Fauci weren't. He has been fear mongering the entire time, but when asked about Biden he was cheering on Biden's plan and saying under him things will get better which is a pure political stance he took
There are more but those are three main ones. We have been liked to by the elites in our society and while average people like me suffer, the elites enjoy their lives.
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@thefelix7767 not true. To start, Medicare has other government agencies to pass cost onto that do not count towards overhead cost in Medicare. For example, the IRS collecting taxes does not count as overhead cost in Medicare where private insurance does not have that luxury. Private insurance also make payments that reduce costs such as fraud prevention for example where Medicare, again, can pass that onto other agencies.
If you were to do an administrative cost per beneficiary Medicare cost more. Why? Because medicare patients are older and thus the healthcare cost to them are already expensive. Thus if you look at total payment from Medicare and their overhead costs (which again they pass many onto other agencies) and do a ratio, you will get 3% only because the total payments in general are so high.
A simple math lesson. Say Medicare pays $100 in healthcare bills $3 of it is overhead, that is 3%. Now say private insurance pays $10 in healthcare bills to someone and pay $1 in overhead, that is 10%. However, they paid less per person already in overhead.
An article in Forbes entitled
"The Myth of Medicare's 'Low Administrative Costs'"
Explains it. Basically, at the very least, you are comparing two completely different programs that, at the very least, calculate overhead costs differently make a comparison a challenge to begin with.
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@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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@joshcourt1393 you know what creates monopolies? Government restrictions. A free market expands and gives people more choices and thus a better system. Government restrictions limits options which is what we are seeing now with this vaccine.
Who bought my government? If it has limitations no one can.
Think about how lobbying and corruption will grow even more if the federal government was paying for your healthcare. That is 1/6 of the economy. That is screaming for corruption. It will become "see this doctor, not this one" or "take this medication, not this one" while politicians and the elites pay their way to get to the front of the line. Consider how many politicians already "received" the vaccine.
The more local the government the more it serves the people as they have more control over it
As for your solutions
1. It will fail as now the current, established politicians will change the rules so only they and their buddies get money
2. Define "popular", also, airtime is limited and different slots have different viewership
3. No term limits on judges and House of representatives. On judges, they have to make very unpopular decisions at times. With the House, they are up for re-election every 2 years and change is often. There are arguments for term limits which I would like in the Senate as they serve 6 year terms, but the counter argument is that if someone is doing well, why remove them?
4. Ok, what?
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@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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