Comments by "" (@freesk8) on "Why You Probably Won't Inherit Anything!" video.

Socialized medicine sucks. Longer wait times, higher costs for similar services, worse outcomes. People still come to the US for care, despite the fact that it is half socialized. The more government has gotten in to health care over the last 60 years, the worse things have gotten.
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@scxble The US system is currently half socialized. Medicare, medicaid, the VA and health insurance for government workers accounts for over half of health care spending. The ACA half-socialized the health insurance industry. And overhead and admin expenses went up dramatically after the ACA. So you can't blame the situation in the US on the free market. You and I agree that the US is not a bastion of free market health care. It was a lot better before the HMO legislation of the 1980's. Life expectancy in the US is lower because Americans are rich and so have become fat. Infant mortality is worse in the US because of a combination of high immigration from poor countries and racial diversity. Let me explain why this last point is not racist. Different ethnic groups have different rates of certain diseases. Leukemia rates are higher among blacks even if you account for income disparities. Some non-white races have higher infant mortality rates, even if you account for income.
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The AHA/Obamacare and socialized medicine like "medicare for all" will actually RAISE healthcare costs. Socialized medicine leads to worse health care, longer wait times, and worse service quality. We have a right to a free market in health care.
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End the death tax. Inheritance taxes are literally Marxist. State death taxes affect MUCH smaller estates than $26 million.
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@frankprit3320 And yet, if you follow willerwin's advice, you will be better off. If you depend on the government, you will be worse off.
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The trend over the last 60 years has been to more government control in health care. Seems like the more the government gets involved, the worse health care and health insurance gets.
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@scxble Americans spend more on health care, not because it is more expensive here if you really compare like procedures, it is because Americans are RICHER. They are richer because of free markets and property rights. Americans sometimes get prescription drugs overseas, taking advantage of the fact that drug companies sell for less there. They make their capital costs back in the US, and know they can't charge as much in foreign countries because they are poorer. But when they need cancer treatment and MRI imaging, they come to the US. We are the only country that doesn't have socialized medicine, but that's no argument. If every other nation were a socialist dictatorship, we would still be stupid to copy them. Health care can never be a "right" because it requires the labor of others to provide it. Life, liberty and property are rights because they come from self-ownership. Food, shelter, clothing and health care are not rights, they are goods, needs, or benefits. Socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried. The more completely it is implemented, the more spectacularly it has failed, and the poor are hurt the most. Venezuela, Cuba, N. Korea are examples of socialism.
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@scxble Definitions of words are important. I do not accept your definition of the term "rights." You may use the term as you choose, of course, because I believe in the right to liberty, but rights do not come from governments. They come BEFORE governments. Good governments defend the individual rights to life, liberty and property. Bad ones violate those rights. Governments can give bribes to people from taxpayers to pay for food, shelter, clothing and healthcare, but that does not make these things "rights." Socialism exists on a spectrum. Some nations have more government control, and some have less. Switzerland and Singapore are at the free market end of the spectrum, and Cuba, N. Korea and Venezuela are at the other. The US is only the 30th most free market nation on the planet, lower than the Scandinavian nations and Canada. The AHA was a step in the direction of socialism, and it resulted in increased health care and health insurance costs. Free markets and competition do a better job of reducing costs than do government controls. As far as your statement about percentage of US GDP is concerned, when you get rich, you tend to shift the amount you pay for different things. When you have more money, you CAN spend more on health care, and Americans do this because they can. Single payer would reduce efficiency, increase waste and wait times, and reduce outcomes. When comparing different nations, it is impossible to account for racial and immigrant diversity. Since the US has so much more of these than most other nations, comparing superficial outcomes makes little sense.
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@Yeeha494 I DO hate corporate bailouts and big pharma subsidies. I'm a Libertarian, not a Republican. Never voted for Trump and never will. There are two kinds of rich people: the kind that got rich by making and selling products or services that people willingly purchased, thus making the vast majority of them better off, and the people who got rich through government influence. Most of the later are politicians. I really like the first kind of rich people. I really hate the second kind. And the way to make our nation produce fewer of the second kind is to dramatically reduce the size, scope and budget of the government. Since socialism is the government ownership of the means of production, this means moving away from socialism itself. Socialism has produced more poverty and death in History and across the globe than any other modern style of government. It is evil.
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