Comments by "Daily Wire Third Stringer" (@DailyWireThirdStringer) on "ReasonTV" channel.

@ShubhamMishrabro At that point you might as well just provide the services for free. But it's better than what we have now, that's for damn sure. The U.S. spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world, yet we still have a busload of middle-class people who bankrupt themselves because they needed a surgery or got severely ill and couldn't afford health insurance. The point is that they shouldn't have to add health insurance to their budget, because it's a service provided for free just like firefighting and law enforcement, paid by tax money. I'm trying to radically improve the standard of living in the country for the majority of Americans by redistributing the wealth of the rich in the form of social programs, not direct checks.
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@ShubhamMishrabro Well the government hasn't gone bankrupt in the Nordic countries as of yet. We spend more than any other country in the world on healthcare and our military (it's not even close), not to mention foreign aid, so we can afford to divert some of those funds to helping our middle class pay for health insurance. We also have the largest GDP of any country in the world. We can make it happen, it's just a matter of having the political willpower to do so.
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@marconapolitano2821 True. But you're also paying for other people who aren't as fortunate, like someone who is relatively poor and gets in a car accident and needs surgery, or a child with leukemia. It's collectivist by nature, but without a doubt I think this is the best way to run healthcare (I obviously prefer individual liberty for many other issues).
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@marconapolitano2821 Private charity? Are you kidding me? So you want to put all the power into just a few wealthy elite and hope that they spend their busloads of cash the way you want them to, meanwhile we have thousands if not millions who are struggling day to day just to afford to feed their kids? That is a sick joke. I used to think the way you do, but empirical observation (i.e. the success of the Nordic countries and Germany/Australia/Japan/etc.) has revealed to me that government is the only solution to this problem. We must be able to hold our elected representatives accountable, and do their jobs by providing us with basic services like access to free healthcare and university in the same way that they provide firefighting and law enforcement. But you probably want to privatize those too, because that will somehow make everything better and bring about some sort of capitalist utopia (there are none currently in existence, nor will there ever be). It's a scam. Anarcho-capitalism will just widen the wealth divide until a majority (51% or more) are struggling to survive while the top 1% can have everything they want. What we have now isn't even close to a meritocracy, and establishing that kind of Ayn Rand free-for-all unfettered capitalism will have the same effect as outright communism: tyranny and wealth by a few over the majority. It's exactly the situation Karl Marx predicted would occur (proletariat vs. bourgeoisie), and I fear it will have exactly the same consequences as people grow more and more desperate. The OECD countries I just mentioned avoided this catastrophe by enforcing minimal regulations (i.e. labor unions allowed to organize and negotiate) and re-distributing some of the wealth in the form of social programs to fulfill people's "social rights" (right to grow up in a household with decent income, access to free healthcare, free university tuition when certain conditions are met, and so on). That's social democracy and that's what we should be aiming for, because it will make America the most prosperous highly populated nation in the world.
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@marconapolitano2821 Australia has the same unemployment rate as we do, so I have no idea what you're talking about. And Japan has the highest life expectancy of any country in the world. And Germany, of course, excels at almost everything, and has the fourth-largest GDP of any country in the world. To label these states as "failures" or even "inferior" to the U.S. on most relevant prosperity statistics is utterly ludicrous. Our life expectancy has been steadily decreasing since 2014, theirs hasn't. In fact, theirs is 3-5 years ahead of us and increasing. Something is very wrong here.
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@marconapolitano2821 Anarcho-capitalism. That's exactly what I was talking about. Name me 1 country in the world today that has achieved unprecedented levels of prosperity and success for all its citizens and still relies on the free market to solve everything. Meanwhile, I can list you at least a dozen OECD countries that have some form of democratic socialism or social democracy in place that achieve the same results.
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@marconapolitano2821 It also probably helps that everyone has access to free healthcare, and that's what I'm getting at. There are about a couple dozen countries where the government is able to provide that service for free, yet we're somehow unable to do it here? Come on. The U.S. has the world's largest GDP as you said, we were the first to the Moon, we can make just about anything happen. This is not beyond our ability in the slightest. At most, we'll have to cut back on the military budget and all the useless wars they're involved in on the other side of the globe.
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You're degenerate, sir. Anyone who dares command other people what they can or cannot do with their own state of consciousness is a depraved human being.
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@jimlovesgina You have this all wrong. Do we say that you have a "right" to the Fire Department or the Police? Of course not. But it's a service provided by the government for public benefit nonetheless. It should be exactly the same way for healthcare. Most of Europe has gotten this figured out already. The only reason the US has not is because our conservative culture and "muh freedom" attitude has hindered the ability of politicians advocating for basic helathcare coverage for ALL Americans (like Bernie Sanders, for example) to win elections. In a country as "developed" as the United States, there is no reason whatsoever anyone should die or go bankrupt because they got sick or injured. It's utterly inexcusable. Healthcare should NOT be treated as something you can go to the grocery store and buy, but as a service provided by the government for public benefit. Sweden has this all figured out; we can too.
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@exchequerguy4037 That's no excuse for letting millions of people die prematurely because they are uninsured. That's barbarism.
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@fuckgoogleforever Well let's start with the fact that 28.9 million Americans are uninsured, accounting for almost 11% of the population as of 2019. https://www.kff.org/uninsured/issue-brief/key-facts-about-the-uninsured-population/ On top of that, 72 million Americans (accounting for 41% of the working population) are experiencing debt problems because of medical bills as of 2007. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-article/survey-79-million-americans-have-problems-medical-bills-or-debt Moreover, one in four Americans are currently experiencing problems with medical bills, and nearly one in three have delayed medical attention because of cost concerns. Also, in the U.S. 69% of adults reported having difficulty with shopping around (indicating a lack of price transparency). The U.S. also spends far more on healthcare than other developed countries where service is free or very low cost. Clearly, we're doing something wrong. https://www.singlecare.com/blog/medical-debt-statistics/ And finally, for the first time in over fifty years average life expectancy in the U.S. dropped two times in a row to 78.6 years in 2016. 25 other developed countries, meanwhile, have an average life expectancy of 81.8 years as of 2015. What's the culprit? One huge factor is the opiod epidemic, of which the U.S. accounts for 27% of the world's overdose deaths with only 4% of the world's population. That's 7 times higher than the rate of overdoses in the European Union in 2014, with a population of over 500 million (or about 6.7% of the world's population). Why is this so? Because in the U.S., doctors are incentivized under a privatized system to prescribe more pills without listing all of its effects. This isn't nearly as much of an issue in countries with government-run healthcare, as we can clearly see. https://www.singlecare.com/blog/medical-debt-statistics/
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@lucasward9506 Uh, yes we would. Because Big Pharma knows it can scam people in a perfectly free market system, even more so than they're doing now, because people's LIVES depend on them. That's why we should be having the government take care of it, just like the police and fire department. Regulation doesn't go far enough. The whole damn system should be nationalized.
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@thephilosophicalphilswift8677 Really? It doesn't sound that way to me, especially when he talks about Latin American countries. "They aren't sending their best" sounds like he won't let anyone in who isn't a doctor, lawyer, or engineer.
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@JacobAnawalt I mean anti-legal immigration. He's almost xenophobic on that front.
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@matthew8153 I sincerely doubt that is the case. Nothing makes you have newfound respect for privacy like 1984. Not even the Bible I don't think.
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@matthew8153 There are microchips in the Bible? Really? Which scripture? P.S. Nice name XD
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But wait until they arrest you for harmless crimes, blackmail you, or do what China's doing and shame you for speaking out against tyranny. Is that a place you want to live in? If yes, then move to China. We'll try to remain the Land of the Free here in America.
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I don't care what the ads tell me, Jo Jorgensen is still the best candidate for 2020.
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People should be free to say whatever they want on a PUBLIC PLATFORM. Which means YouTube and Google shouldn't be DELETING comments and articles because they disagree with them. Often what they are doing is censoring the TRUTH. Censorship of any kind should be intolerable in a civilized society.
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I would... but it's still kinda illegal in the USA. I hope that changes in my lifetime.
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