President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Lint is the new Jif, it gets better and better.

 

Butter up, Fappy! (Aim away from your Travolta poster, though.)

 

Some friends of friends had a very similar experience in Mississippi. Over there, the birth mom virtually has to light her kids on fire in front of the courthouse before a judge will put her out of the picture for good.

 

No no no, however many million people get fucked out of coverage, they will say it's the mooslim neegro's fault for ever leading them to believe they could get coverage anyway.

 

Yes. Real news comes from legitimate, credible sources of reliable information, based on objective facts. Like White House press conferences.

 

That latter part definitely seems like a good start, splitting healthcare from insurance. It's a tacit admission that an insurance system is probably a bad way to do health care.

The downside is that while we're slowly bleeding the life from an inefficient industry, probably eliminating more than a few jobs in the process (market corrections and such), you still have the big question looming. How do you build a workable system/market for health care? A pure consumer-provider model won't work because of asymmetric information and rational actor problems. You could hope providers look for efficiency, but considering the providers benefit from the aforementioned problems, that seems highly unlikely. Do we accept a single-payer destiny? Is there some magic bullet the actual health care experts (as compared to the SJ.com variety) have in the chamber?

 

I don't know, but I want to hurt him.

 

Settle down there Stone Cold.

 

Russia creeping back into the news. Time for Trump to bomb something.

 

He had a predictable Clinton Twitter rant. More unhinged than usual these last few days. I agree. More Russia stuff on the way.

 

Question: didn't Republicans push for healthcare back in the Nixon Administration? What derailed it then?