Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Ben Shapiro Makes Ass Of Self During Ridiculous Climate Change Rant (Permanently Discrediting)" video.

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  7. ​ @will.roman-ros  "Universal healthcare systems have experts in the field negotiate" - which is useless. If Big Pharma demands a price and the experts disagree, what happens? This happened in Portugal, the pharmaceutical company demanded over 90k per patient for a Hep C treatment and the government didn't agree with the price so they refused to buy. Obviously this caused a major shitstorm and the government was pressured into buying. The treatment was thus sold for an undisclosed amount. Do you think the price increased, or lowered? "Assuming no corruption of course" - which is a problem. Where do you go get experts in the field who are also not connected to the industry in any way? "That means even if pharma raises prices, the buyers still know what’s reasonable" - if it wasn't for the news saying that the government was refusing to overpay for treatments I would have never guessed the pharmaceutical companies could get away with charging almost 6 figures per person. The average person doesn't know the costs when he's not paying. "which I’d argue is more important than new medicine down the line" - but you're hovering right above the solution. What is forcing the medical field to be so cutting edge? If someone wanted to make money wouldn't it make sense to open a clinic with lower operating costs that would cover frequent but life-saving procedures which have existed for decades and are extremely well researched? And use mostly generic drugs? I'm pretty sure if anyone tried it the AMA would come crashing down on them for violations of some kind of regulation. You can't even lower the employment costs of doctors because there's no way that regulatory interests will ever tell colleges to drop the requirement for undergraduate years before entering med school.
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  12.  @will.roman-ros  "Universal healthcare doesn’t necessarily mean public takeover of the means of healthcare, rather, it can be a government intervention for the private sector" - just ask for the healthcare system to be totally nationalized. State intervention on the private sector will only make things worse, and does absolutely nothing to prevent Big Pharma or medical supply distributors and manufacturers from overcharging the government paying for the stuff. I actually would respect a position that I disagree with but seeks to completely change the situation, than take seriously the proposal to take a broken system and then absolutely mangle it through methods we know will not work. "The free-market can only work with educated, logical individuals" - sounds an awful lot like "the poors are too stupid to decide for themselves" and that's why anyone can easily argue that the left actually hates the lower classes. "It was a suggestion by Adam Smith in Wealth of Nations" - the references I find are to justify the "invisible hand" concept he was not suggesting any system at all - it was an observation he made which can be incorrect for all I care, but the point of it was explaining his "invisible hand" concept and not propose any system. "Trickle down economics only happens with charitable business owners/hierarchy." - which is why everyone takes down the trickle-down strawman. The right-wing concept (and some dumb fucks on the Republican side are absolute brainlets for believing the strawman rather the actual political theory) is that putting hurdles on productivity will lead to the wealthy accumulating wealth or putting their wealth where it can't be taxed. By limiting productivity and having the rich save rather than invest not only will the country lose jobs and send people to unemployment, but the government will actually earn a lower tax revenue. " Low taxes only gets you less from the government. Less security, less education, less healthcare, and less infrastructure." - which is the totally ass-backwards way of looking at it. You think that lowering taxes lowers tax revenue but when you lower taxes productivity increases and the wealthy invest rather than hoard wealth. You actually INCREASE government revenue from low taxes. Again, Woodrow Wilson and JFK both used low tax rates to increase government revenue. Reagan massively increased tax revenue and decreased unemployment with his tax policy (although the government was at a deficit because of his spending). The point isn't that rich will give to the poor. The point is that increasing taxes lowers government revenue and kills jobs,
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