Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "CNN" channel.

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  9. Eksil, to start, a "fact checking" website is not going to do it with me. Sure, facts are important, but how you interpret them, the reasoning behind them, and what they all mean is important. To start, here is title of this paper "“Comparisons of Health Care Systems in the United States, Germany and Canada” Mater Sociomed From that paper "Part of the gap between US and Canadian health care costs may be explained by a failure to account for Canadian hospital’ capital costs, larger proportion of elderly in the United States and higher level of spending on research and development in the US." Now the paper also said this "Compared to the US system, the Canadian system has lower costs, more services, universal access to health care without financial barriers, and superior health status. Canadians and Germans have longer life expectancies and lower infant mortality rates than do US residents." However, by this book http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/-the-business-of-health_110115929760.pdf When you remove car accidents and murders the US is number 1 in life expectancy. The reality is that there are many factors that contribute to life expectancy besides healthcare. On infant mortality “International Comparisons of Infant Mortality and Related Factors: United States and Europe, 2010” In that report it shows that the US does very well in infant mortality when there is early pre-term births. That is a sign of a strong healthcare system in that a baby can survive even if they leave the womb at 24 weeks. Another issue with infant mortality is that the US has a high pre-term birth rate which will skew the results. Pre-term births can be associated with those who fail to take proper measures during pregnancies to which no matter how much access of healthcare one has it would not be solved. It is the same as obesity where obesity is self inflicted and requires no healthcare access to cure. Also, issues like obesity and diabetes contribute to pre-term births, both of those are typically self inflicted. So citing infant mortality is flawed. Also, read these reports "True versus reported waiting times for valvular aortic stenosis surgery" Can J Cardiol. “ Analysis of deaths while waiting for cardiac surgery among 29,293 consecutive patients in Ontario, Canada" Heart “Too many patients with cancer die in acute care hospitals despite palliative options: report" CMAJ
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  13. Alden, the quality for advanced care is lower in other countries. Single payer is great for very very basic care such as routine check ups, pregnancies, and non critical situations. For critical situation and advanced care, such as surgery, it is inferior. As for people being more "economically stable" than the US, what do you mean? People in the US are stable. You bring up bankruptcy, but bankruptcy laws exist to ensure stability for people who fall on hard times. Diversity plays a large role in that different cultures means different economics, different lifestyles, and different ideas. Take the state of Nevada, for example. They are ranked poorly. However, a reason why is not because of their poor schools, it is because there is little incentive to become educated when you can make close to 6 figures parking cars or dealing at the poker table. The culture of the casinos influences their behavior. Now take the neighboring state of Utah. The large Mormon population influences the drinking laws there where beer has half the alcohol content. People die in Canada as well. Read the following papers "True versus reported waiting times for valvular aortic stenosis surgery" Can J Cardiol. “ Analysis of deaths while waiting for cardiac surgery among 29,293 consecutive patients in Ontario, Canada" Heart “Too many patients with cancer die in acute care hospitals despite palliative options: report" CMAJ The recession started under Hoover. FDR came in 1933 and we saw no recovery until close to 1940 because of WWII. The US economy was terrible under FDR. It shot up to number 1 after the war because every other nation was rebuilding. The New Deal policies were also watered down after FDR left. People who feel that FDR was a good president also feel that Matt Millen was a good GM for the Lions. Under Millen the Lions were terrible. Under FDR the economy was in a depression where it took a war to get us out of it. " In fact, every time in US history that a depression/recession has occurred, it was ALWAYS due to conservative/neo-conservative/neo-liberal policies, typically under Republican presidents." It is much more complex than that bud. Right now we have Trump who is almost as conservative as it gets when it comes to economics, our economy is growing.
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  23. Paul Ryan is stating the truth behind the 2nd amendment. It is there to prevent tyranny. Both Obama and Hillary are anti-gun. You have to explain the reasoning behind the 2nd amendment. It isn't for hunting, it is to prevent tyranny. It is to prevent a government from becoming too violent and oppressive that when all other civil methods fail then we can counter with violence. "The shooter who shot the republican representatives had a known history of violence and should not have been allowed to own guns" What violence? You have to be specific. "But hey, the republicans don't have the nerve to say that even someone like that shouldn't own guns" Again, what has he done to require him losing his rights to own a gun? You do know republicans and the NRA came up with background checks in the pass, which we have now (and this guy passed). " Furthermore,  republicans give "free money" to corporations" How? If they do I don't agree with it. But again, how? If you say tax breaks that is allowing them to keep the money the earned. "universal healthcare wouldn't be free and no one said it would be. " It would be free for those who don't pay taxes. Remember, democrats want to raise taxes on the rich to make them pay for it, not the poor. "  I do believe that community college ought to be free for anyone who graduates high school, " So K-12 is not enough then? After 13 years of government schooling is not enough we need more? "and why should "state" college education cost an arm and a leg? " As that to the people who created the federal student loan program. " If we weren't going bankrupt supporting a bloated military budget " Defense spending accounts for less then 20% of our federal budget. We spend more on social welfare programs. Defense spending accounts for around 4% of our GDP. We spend more on education.
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  33. +Brian Anderson "Ideally, Congress would be representative of the electorate " They do. Problem is that we are such a diverse country that members of congress represent their voters. As in the members of Wyoming represent those individuals and the members of CA represent those individuals and so on. The reality is that people have little control of the federal government which is why we have to place strict limits on it and establish smaller, more local governments. "which is actually these ultra-rich shadowy figures behind our elected officials pushing their own agenda," Which wouldn't be a problem if the federal government had no power. It has no power than it can't be bought. "To simply blame "the federal government" is to miss the fact that RIGHT NOW they already don't represent us," I do feel like they represent us, but as I said we are such a diverse country that the role of government is not clear at the federal level. Politicians will push for what their people want. Everyone disagrees until someone with money comes in and persuades them differently. This is why the constitution was designed to place strict limitations on the federal government and established more state rights. The founding fathers could not agree on what government should do domestically so they left it up to the states and wanted to prevent a federal government from being too powerful. Members of congress I do feel represent their people for the most part, but what every state wants is so different then it becomes impossible to come up with a solution that most people can agree on. Money thus plays a factor in persuading politicians in supporting something. The fact is that the federal government should not have that power to begin with.
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