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I only voted for the tax cuts, not the face-eating racist leopards part!

 

He's a strange mix of libertarian and Tea Party.

 

BE CAREFUL ...

Miami Dolphins' Kenny Stills says he is getting death threats after criticizing team owner

 

What if those videos of angry white women calling the cops on African-Americans only went viral due to Russian troll farms?

Russia-linked Twitter accounts promoted ‘doxxing’ over racial tension videos

 

Oh, Joe ...
I have always liked Biden, but, of course, he's his own worst enemy. Two thoughts I have about him:
1. He might be the best person to be the next president because that person will have to spend most of his/her four years cleaning up Trump's shit.
2. Every single little gaffe or minor slip of the tongue he makes will be made into a national scandal because whataboutism.

 

My wife has cancer, it is terminal (incurable) and stage 4. While the for profit, market driven medical industry is far far far from perfect it has developed treatments for the cancers and for the side effects and pain management that would never have been done had the government solely directed medical research. If the government were in charge of AIDS research, Mitch McConnell would have vetoed it. The market is not a great way to allocate resources because they have devoted inordinate resources for minor yet profitable maladies. But as a consumer of highly expensive medical treatment, I prefer private medical to government. And I don’t trust government to allocate resources. I am sure the republicans would just let terminal people die sooner and save them money and I’m sure democrats would work to insure that if whites don’t die at the same rate as blacks in each disease that medicine will be with held until here’s equality in death.

 

If gaffes and slips of the tongue kept candidates from being President, neither of the Bushes nor Trump would have been elected. The fundamental thing about Biden is that he's a gauche but likeable guy. If people focus on the second aspect, they'll forgive the first.

 

I am very sorry for your wife's trouble. The second sentence of your post is an assertion without evidence. And of course, the government through the CDC finances a whole lot of medical research.

 

I am sorry about your wife.

But most people who die are on government provided health insurance (medicare, Medicaid or veteran's care). So I don't really understand why moving to something like Medicare for all would change how medical research would be done in this country.

 

NCI Budget and Appropriations

 

NCI NIH and other government agencies provide invaluable help and funding. I don’t to see how many illnesses are cured or alleviated without their help. But I don’t want Mitch McConnell and Maxine Waters and Lindsey Graham making health care decisions more directly than they do now. My wife will die on private medical insurance. But mandatory national health insurance should be enacted. Somehow, someway. I don’t see how people without insurance or bad insurance would have survived what my wife has. She was given 4 months to live, 8 months ago. Without insurance she would have died already.

 

As we have seen with Obamacare, expanding government-financed health insurance is difficult because people quite rightly freak out at the prospect of losing whatever insurance they have. But once it happens, then the government-financed insurance becomes the status quo, and people defend it zealously. I guarantee every Republican campaign consultant threw up in their mouths when they saw Graham's promise to repeal Obamacare. Because of these conflicting trends, expansion of health insurance through government financing/provision will have to be a gradual process.