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Yes.

Just think of education costs, which are soaring because students receive loans that they have to actually pay back.

 

What's the best way to take attention off the health care debacle? Distract. Distract. Distract.

 

Let's stipulate two things before getting into a wider ranging discussion:

1. I'm the leading advocate for trans* rights and acceptance on this board.

2. Generals will fight agains the integration of African-Americans, women, homosexuals, and the transgendered into their fighting force. They just don't want to deal with the hassle, or the social issues. They want to concentrate on breaking things and killing people.

Having said that, is the integration of transgendered individuals different than previous examples of integration?

Is this just a clear cut case of discrimination, or should factors like medical costs and disruption be factored in when making such a decision?

 

But, aren't most colleges and universities set up as not for profits? Why would costs continue to rise?

 

Oh for heaven's sake ... If "Profit bad!" is jumbo crayon-worthy, "People can't be expected to negotiate!" is in that vicinity.

Today people of modest, even severely challenged, economic circumstances enjoy comforts and conveniences not even imaginable to the richest people on Earth a mere 30, 40 years ago. And they do so without ever negotiating the first fucking price.

I could go on, but this guy says it as well as I ever could ...

 

My hunch is health care services would then bog down to the point where you had many more health options in place, some of which became discount lemon care services. Health insurance at least makes the process work more smoothly. It just pumps up the costs.

For example: I'm with you on college education. Get rid of the student loan racket. Make colleges compete for your dollar. Make colleges make their professors work much harder for their job by becoming much better teachers.

Again: Health is like nothing else. The hybrid system we have sucks. Single payer is simply the smartest way to do it.

 

With Trump, it's almost certainly discriminatory, and I'm wondering if the man will not be able to help himself and he'll refer to it as a mental illness - that they are in theory potentially unfit to serve.

And there will be many, many millions who agree with him.

I'll be curious to see how Dems and their cultural outgrowths on late night TV and social media play this one. This is where they tend to lose voters.

 

Shkreli thinks its fine.

 

Everybody wants the kind of health care that 18% of GDP pays for, but everybody also wants someone else to cough up that 18%.

Spending a Lot on Health Care Is the American Way