Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "The Hill" channel.

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  6.  @ThatWTVGuy  Biden literally drafted the 1994 Crime Bill, which Republicans voted against. The Democrat party had a huge majority in the House and Senate with 267 Democrats vs 167 Republicans in the House, and 58 to 42 in the Senate, with Bill Clinton in the WH. This was all the political mandate you could have asked for to push priority party objectives for the Nation. Guess what the Democrat Party decided to push? Harsher prison sentences for "Jive-talkin' ghetto hoodlums" - Joe Biden Mandatory minimum sentencing for possession of Marijuana (which Kamala happily enforced) $9.7 billion for more prisons to house more inmates that would be convicted under the new provisions Expanded the death penalty to a wider range of crimes, which disproportionately affected inner city youths and minorities. Banning pistol grips, flash hiders, and bayonet lugs from semi-automatic rifles that could be fed with detachable magazines, which have zero connection to crime as stated by decades of data compiled by the FBI and independent researchers. They rolled this legislation through Congress with Democrat Congressman Jack Brooks in the House, and Democrat Senator Joe Biden in the Senate, with Bill Clinton happily signing it. Then the media told people for decades after how racist the Republicans are.. That crime bill cost the Democrats the House in one of the biggest turnovers in US history. The Biden/Harris ticket represents almost 30 years of Democrat legislative and executive approach to crushing minorities with their "tough on crime" policies, while they both violated the law and escaped the consequences with their political privilege.
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  24.  @amano3847  I have zero connection with the healthcare industry other than as a consumer. We have a lot of family in Canada, some of them working in advanced diagnostics in nuclear medicine in BC area. If the healthcare system in Canada is so great, why do Canadian members of parliament prefer to travel to the US for faster care? You can go look right now on google maps and search for hospitals in Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, and compare the number of hits to any city in the US even in States with relatively small populations. Then do a search for dental clinics and fire departments. Canada, while one of the better nations for healthcare infrastructure compared to the world, doesn't do well even against the poorest States in the US. There are small States in the US where the major cities have almost twice the number of hospitals as your nation's capitol city. I even tried to bias the searches in favor of Canada by expanding it to the greater metropolitan area of Ottawa. It gets even worse when you compare dental clinics of your nations capitol to the "poorest" of US States. In a moderate income State even below the National median, Salt Lake City has 18 dental clinics listed, while Ottawa has 2. Vancouver is much more like the US when it comes to dental clinics, comparing well against lower income cities like Little Rock, Arkansas. You have waiting lists when it comes to public hospital services, even critical diagnostics before procedures can be performed. This would be unheard of in the US:
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  39.  Vincent Trivigno  Yes, I love it. That's probably one of the most exemplary appointments, although you got it mixed up. He appointed a coal guy as acting EPA Chief! Savage! If you study the EPA's history of fail, they're more like a Soviet bureaucracy that takes pay-offs from the biggest polluters, while crushing small companies who actually follow the rules. Then they manage to order total destruction of ecosystems like they did in Colorado after local towns and mining companies repeatedly begged them not to spill 3 million gallons of toxic mine waste into the Animus River, then refused to pay for it. So as a life-long advocate for our environment, I'm filled with pure glee when I see the EPA's budget slashed and energy sector people put in charge of it. Paris Climate Accords have nothing to do with the environment other than using it as a lever against US competition as the world's 2nd largest exporter. China happily signed Paris Climate Accord. China, where the pollution and environmental mismanagement is so horrible, it puts out 30% of the entire world's air pollution, most of the plastic in the ocean, untold tons of chemical waste into the pacific, and even into its own rivers. You can't breathe in many of the cities if you go outside on a bad air day. Signatory treaties that affect trade are a cutthroat business. The US is one of the only nations that actually combats pollution. In Russia, instead of having emissions test centers, you pull in so they can pull your cadmium catalytic converter for resale, while giving you a certificate of compliance. The disparity in environmental management in the US even with EOA corruption/incompetence is night and day compared with the 10 largest populations on earth.
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  46.  @amano3847  You've been to 3rd-world countries where many of them have better healthcare than the US? Please name these countries, because not even the Scandinavians or Canadians have better healthcare than the US. Do a simple search on nearby hospitals and dentists in population and rural areas, fire department distribution, diagnostic equipment and access times, elective surgeries, specialists, multiple layers of care available in the US private and public sectors, life flight helicopters per capita, Level 1 Trauma centers, and it's not even close. I've lived abroad in most of the countries where politicians in the US tell us healthcare is so much better, and they're simply ignorant or lying. I and many members of my family have used healthcare services in Germany, Finland, Sweden, Spain, Japan, and Italy. It's always a breath of fresh air to be in the US when needing healthcare. Nothing in Central America, Africa, Asia, India, or the Middle East compares well with Switzerland, Scandinavia, Canada, Austria, Germany, or Japan. Even the Southern European sh*tholes are better than the 3rd world, and you don't want to go to the hospital for anything serious in Southern Europe if you can help it. The US is just in a different league entirely compared to these places, for the same reasons we outclass them all economically, militarily, and GDP (PPP). We also exceed the volunteerism and humanitarian relief of all other nations by a wide margin, including foreign medical relief aid to 3rd world countries. Wherever you're getting your information on healthcare from, I would recommend ditching it.
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  49.  @JB-kx9bx  Yes, but the Finnish studies where they audit their own NHS are in Finnish. They found that patient care was prioritized effectively at the bottom of the list, wait times are excessive (we've experienced this numerous times across all ages within our family), and care was nowhere near what was expected and funded by parliament. In the US, I get an MRI within hours of going into the ER if it's part of the diagnostic protocol. Doesn't matter if I can't speak English, don't have citizenship, whatever. Not so in Finland. Once we finally got my son into the MRI 47 days after his accident in Finland, I looked on the machine. "MADE IN USA". My cousin in Sweden had a rare condition where his ribcage didn't grow and expand with his body as he got older, so he ended up having to be taken to Spain where a Spanish specialist had learned how to treat this with some advanced surgery and equipment he had learned and accessed in the US, where the procedure and apparatus was pioneered. When we take our own children to the dentist here in the States, the dental clinics tell the families who are on Medicaid to bring the kids in every month since the taxpayers are paying for it without any oversight. Immigrant families take advantage of these services more than others, since most natural-born citizens are busy working during the day, whereas many of the low income family structures include grandma in the home so kids can visit as often as the dentists tell them to. In Finland, healthcare is a national bureaucracy/jobs program more than anything, where patient care gets the least amount of attention. Think more of something like the DMV running hospitals and clinics, where employees are comfortable with their job security, no incentives to provide timely and focused patient care. We just use the private sector clinics when possible now whenever visiting. You get seen usually within 15 minutes, meet with the doctor, they prescribe whatever or perform whatever procedure is called for, then bill you 65 euros per 15 minutes or 975 euros per hour. I've lived there multiple times throughout my life. Have also lived in Germany, Japan, and South Korea. US hospitals are generally superior to any of those, and wait times are almost non-existent compared to those places. A lot of people suffer worse injuries due to delayed care outside of the US. The US health trends are largely driven by over-eating more than anything else.
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  56.  @amano3847  There are multiple factors to consider when assessing Healthcare, starting with availability. None of the G8 or G20 nations have the same availability or timeliness of services as in the US. Most of the advancements in medicine, diagnostic equipment, and EMS have been pioneered in the US, then shared with these other less-populous nations. The US helped rebuild most of the G8 nations after WWII, developing infrastructure including Healthcare services and hospitals. This is especially true for UK, France, Germany, Japan, and Italy, who all suffered major losses to infrastructure and prime age males. You can cherry-pick some of the statistics to make the US look worse if you don't account for per capita data, especially since the other G8 nations pale in comparison to the US population. Even still, if you get hurt in the US, you have access to quick transport to a level 1 trauma center staffed by multiple specialists in EMS who benefit from the latest developments in funded battlefield trauma research, which drives equipment and diagnostic systems. There are far more quality medical universities and programs in the US to train Doctors, RNs, LPNs, Paramedics, lab techs, Pharmacists, imaging technicians, and staff, to the extent that professionals from around the world go to school in the US so they can take that knowledge back to their home countries. What I saw in the BC area of Canada after my cousin's accident/death was very modern and looked like it could have been in a US hospital, but the timeliness of access to care in Canada is a known issue that can't be denied and ignored. Canada has benefitted greatly from US investments in healthcare, has negotiated its US-provided drug prices into a fraction of what is paid here (that's changing under Trump's order last week), and works jointly with the US more as a partner when it comes to this issue. The WHO statistics on healthcare aren't structured well at all, and one would be a fool to trust anything coming from that corrupt body, which goes without saying as of late.
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  64.  @atarkus8  You can have no insurance in the US, not speak English, and you have to get an MRI or other diagnostic services for life-saving procedures in public hospitals. Most of the US population lives in a metropolitan area and its suburbs. Since almost every single State has at least one major metro area, and many States with several major metro areas, it's better to compare US States individually with other nations-where you often have limited metro areas and unipolar infrastructure like in Finland (Helsinki). You don't have to pay a ton of money out of pocket since almost everyone in the US is either on employer-provided health insurance, or is eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. Indian doctors are not just as good since they don't have access to the same training and support, even if they go to school in the US. The ones that come to the US stay in the US as a general rule, due to the plague-ridden levels of poverty and infectious diseases in India. It's impossible to receive equal care in India just from a sanitation, clean water, and infected population perspective. We're talking about a place where homeless people evict the dead from their graves to have a place to sleep. Using extreme examples from during the COVID-19 response in the few areas that were overwhelmed is not a good position to take when comparing healthcare availability between nations. My friend who was waiting for the liver transplant on a list was a Finnish citizen, born and raised there, spent 9 years in the Finnish Army, did de-mining work in Africa as part of a UN mission, went to school in Saint Petersburg Russia, was a small business owner, very interesting guy with a storied life. He'd probably still be alive if he lived in the US, but I can't say for sure. He was only 46.
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  65.  @RyanJones-vl1ow  That's the first anecdote in a life of anecdotes, not the only. In every single experience I've had in Finland, while I was grateful for the services, they were not good compared to the US. They are very behind the times in hospital facilities, services, diagnostics, and especially wait times. The US Veterans Administration is much faster than what you'll experience in public hospitals in Finland. I have a lot of family in Finland right now, have lived there multiple times, and it's not on-par with the US in most areas. If it was, I would tell you how superior it is, how much faster you get treated, and how more modern everything is. It just isn't. You shouldn't expect it to be either when the population is only 5.4 million people and the winter is 7-9 months long, with the national government running things. The Finnish parliament and their bureaucratic infrastructure is extreme inefficient in the NHS, filled with a lot of incompetent people who don't connect the dots because there is no incentive for them to do so. When I was living there at one time, it was widely-published that their own internal audit of their NHS discovered that patient care was at the bottom of the list of priorities in practice, and due to demographic losses of young workers, there isn't a viable solution to this since immigrant workers don't learn Finnish well, and don't have Finnish work ethics. It was brought up as a major issue in the Finnish Presidential debates, where it was pointed out that many Finnish assisted living homes have been neglecting patients as the norm due to lack of staffing and low quality of work ethic among staff. I've watched that for decades visiting relatives in those homes. Coming to the US from Finland is like stepping back into the modern era when it comes to healthcare. I'm usually there 2-3 times per year until 2016. You'e been lied to is all. People go through the tourist honeymoon stage when visiting foreign countries looking for all the positives. When you actually live there for years and get to see how it really is, especially the places they don't want tourists to see, your perspective becomes more informed. There are a lot worse places, and it's one of the few places I would feel a lot more comfortable in than most other nations, but it doesn't compare well with the US.
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  67.  @atarkus8  By law, ERs have to treat you even if you're too lazy to sign up for Medicare or Medicaid. Hospitals will be sued by greedy attorneys (who will pocket most of the damages awarded by a court) if hospitals violate Federal law. Even private hospitals were banned from sending indignant patients to community hospitals by the 1985 COBRA Act (patient dumping), for unmistakable emergencies. Patients have to be stabilized before being transported from private hospitals to public ones, otherwise they can be sued. If a private hospital provides services, then they absolutely should be able to be paid for those services. I don't understand why people think anything is free, especially healthcare. It certainly isn't anything close to being free in Europe. Not only are you taxed excessively for it, you still have to pay a co-pay that they will come after you for in collections if you fail to do so. Millions of people in the US who choose not to have insurance do it because of laziness or they don't want to pay for it, especially college-aged kids who don't have any medical conditions and are gambling on not having any accidents. My entire point doesn't hinge on one aspect of healthcare. It is multi-factorial like real life, complex and hard to study before one can have a valid perspective on it. Availability Accessibility Professional Training Services Advanced diagnostics Advanced medicine Advanced procedures Long-term care Specialized fields Research Cost These are some of the important metrics to look at when comparing healthcare between nations. Starting with availability and accessibility, the US dominates those and all of the other fields I have listed. We get criticized for cost, which is another complex variable that needs full accounting, showing how we get raped on costs of drugs while nations claiming to be so better than us get our drugs at a fraction of the price we do, even after we spent all the money on R&D and trials for those drugs. Doctors in India have access to training in the West. I never said they didn't. If you come here on a student visa and graduate medical school, chances are you aren't going to go back to a malaria, typhus, and blood borne pathogen-infested cesspool like India or Bangladesh. They aren't stupid. COVID stresses on various hospitals in the US are not indicative of systemic failure since only a handful of hospitals have been overwhelmed. My local hospitals haven't even come close to reaching 50% capacity in ICU for respiratory therapy, and most States haven't either. It doesn't paint the picture accurately to say that because NYC has terrible police on spreading the disease (nursing homes infected neglectfully by NY politicians), that everyone else is the same. Terminal cancer is a bad disease no matter where you live. The grass is not greener in Finland, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Denmark, the UK, or Canada. It's going to suck. Sorry about your mother. We lost my MIL to cancer several years ago and I don't like the way she was treated either, but it happened fast. She had refused to get colonoscopies for decades because she had 3 friends die from them when the procedure was still being developed. The US definitely has all sorts of issues, but we're the cream of the crap compared to all the other "socialist utopias". Modeling out superior system on them just doesn't make sense to me after all I've seen and learned about them.
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