Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "US Border Patrol chief has update on border wall progress" video.

  1. ​ @tomhicks1009  : Yes. We're very wasteful about it, and over-bureaucratized. We also have technocrats in government deciding what doctors will be paid, rather than doctors and patients agreeing to a straight-up fee for services rendered. Back in the day, doctors made their rich clients pay a little (or a lot) extra, so they could take on a certain number of charity cases. And the communities held fund-raisers for their local hospitals and viewed health care as a LOCAL point of pride. We should get back to that. Instead, we have a system where everybody has to give extra when government decides to set compensation below the cost of providing the service. if you have nothing, you can still just show up at the emergency room and obtain care. If you have insurance, you pay extra to make up for it. This is well-known. Now we just expect the feds to take care of us, while our communities erode.
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  2.  @goodshipkaraboudjan  : We do a lot of stupid stuff, and we don't go to our doctor unless we're really really sick. We ought to do more to boost General Practitioners, and go to them for regular checkups, but we eat too much, we party too much, and a lot of us die from "Hold my beer" syndrome and selfies. We should do more preventive care, and incentivize it, but we don't. We just tippy-toe around our health care, and hope somebody else will pay for the million-dollar bill for the fancy life-saving (or genital-mutilating) surgery. Everyone fears a major illness and wants somebody else to pay for it. That's why I'm shocked the Democrats are committing political suicide, with programs that even the middle class hope to get more out of than they put in, which of course will never happen in a million years. Also, due to red tape, more and more of the money goes to paper-pushers and form-filling-out and less and less of it goes to doctors. You have a $120,000 bill from the hospital, and the surgeon who saved your life gets about $600 of it.
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