Comments by "Vic 2.0" (@Vic2point0) on "With These Hands" video.

  1.  @pewishjrivilege896  You're right, actually. Trump has made some progress in this area by applying free market principles. Namely, getting more drugs approved by the FDA (competition!) has caused prescription drug prices to fall at historic levels. He's also working for transparency in the costs of medical treatment which will help even more. https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/prescription-drug-prices-falling-historic-levels-thanks-trump-administration-policies/
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  2. That's a good point! Plus, we're supposed to think the government will fix our healthcare when all they've done since the 60s is make it worse. It's no coincidence that the healthcare industry is both the most insanely expensive and the most heavily regulated.
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  3. Eh. Trump's doing a great job, so I'll be voting for him this time. Record-low unemployment rates (lower than they were before the recession), increased wages, prison reform, Right to Try, lower prescription drug prices, the list goes on and on. Plus, the government is what got us into this mess, concerning healthcare, to begin with. If anything, history (and recently, Trump) has shown us we should free up the market instead.
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  4.  @brendannyman7788  Not at all, the government is why healthcare's unaffordable to begin with. Prices skyrocketed in the 60s (with the advent of Medicare and Medicaid) because our government had radically increased demand while hindering supply. It's no coincidence that the healthcare industry is both the most insanely expensive and the most heavily regulated. https://mises.org/wire/how-government-regulations-made-healthcare-so-expensive
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  5.  @brendannyman7788  That's somewhat incoherent. How exactly does proof that when the government got involved in our healthcare industry, prices skyrocketed not undermine the idea of giving them even more control of it? Because as I see it, I've posted historic proof and recent data on the effects of Trump's appliance of free market principles, both strongly suggesting that opening up the market is the way to go. ​ @Hans R. There could be any number of reasons why the two can't be compared. Population size, unhealthy lifestyles, a corrupt government. But we know it isn't working, and the free market does. Are you guys really more heavily regulated? That's crazy because in the U.S. there were approx. 130,000 pages (PAGES!) of regulations applying to the healthcare industry alone in 2013. Doubtless the number has increased significantly since then. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1119841/ Another issue is that a lot of countries end up sacrificing quality and/or efficiency to make it "free". For example, major surgery under the U.K.’s healthcare system is four times more likely to kill you than the same services in the U.S. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-195277/NHS-death-rates-times-higher-US.html Wait times are also a major problem in the UK, with some actually being denied care. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/feb/08/patients-suffering-direct-result-nhs-wait-time-failures There's even talk of them denying care on bases not relevant to scarcity. I have a hard time thinking the United States, with our uber-reactionary culture, wouldn't implement similar (or worse) ideas. https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/33955-uk-health-service-to-deny-treatment-to-patients-deemed-racist-or-sexist
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  6. @Nightingale I agree, it's very ok!
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  7.  @hansr.9037  My response to you keeps getting deleted. Gonna try and add it to my last comment here.
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