Until they prove themselves otherwise, everyone should be given a chance.
2020 US Elections | Biden certified as President | Dems control Congress
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Until they prove themselves otherwise, everyone should be given a chance.
That’s why I asked if you’re doing alright. You were pretty high on her.
Of course. I still like her stance on being anti-war.
Bernie was and still is the man.
I think Eboue said he would vote for Beto at one point too.
Only in a hypothetical between 3 folks he doesn’t really like (Pete, Kamala, Beto)...
No I would vote beto for president. I mean he sucks and he doesnt really stand for anything other than personal power but I think you could pressure him into tepid support of a left wing program or two.
Harris and Buttigieg though...both have volunteered to destroy the lives of poor people to advance their own careers. They are dead eyed freaks that I couldnt bring myself to vote for. At least I dont think so, saying this in september 2019.
Harris and Buttigieg though...both have volunteered to destroy the lives of poor people to advance their own careers. They are dead eyed freaks that I couldnt bring myself to vote for. At least I dont think so, saying this in september 2019.
Point is he's not Bernie or bust like he was previously described to be by a poster in here (forget who it was)
Ah, gotcha. Correct.
My point was that it is possible to have a working system which has on it only private insurance. It actually works in Switzerland, which is why I provided it as an example. What I think is important is to have a reduction on what people pay for the insurance, and to put every person to have an insurance. If (s)he cannot afford one, then the state should be able to give it for free. It if is totally public, or a very regulated market of private insurance companies, is not as important (in principle) as giving healthcare to everyone.
About the pricing @berbatrick , that seems a bit too much. I had only basic insurance when I lived there (which gave me what I needed, though it has some deductibles, but affordable), and I was paying 230CHF, which is less than 10% of Switzerland's wage salary. If he had a decent salary, it would have been closer to 5%. 14% is probably if he has also his partner and eventual kids, anyway...
For what is worth, I believe that that mandatory public insurance complemented (if the person chooses) by some private insurance is the best system (for example Germany has it that way).
Why would private insurance be better than public insurance?
She is anti war, that's why she met with the war criminal Assad?
Price & service competition.
She revealed herself when she visited Trump Tower during the transition to audition for an administration job.
We're talking insurers not providers though. So why would a private system in which profits are taken out be better than a public system where profits are put back in?
That dynamic isn't usually concurrent with the interest of the insured (in health care at least)
For some of us who have lived in countries like India, corruption is a huge issue when it comes to a public system. That kind of a pervasive corruption culture doesn't prevail in US based on my experience but public systems are not without pitfalls. For what it's worth, I agree with your point whole heartedly
It doesn't matter if management is private. Health care in Switzerland is de facto public as is publically regulated. Private companies can't offer what they want but what the government want, they can't discriminate, they can't raise the price and is strongly subsidized also. In the end is more about indirect or direct taxing. Instead of paying your fixed tax to the government, you pay a fix price (regulated for the government) to the private
In Spain is considered public but there are hospitals that are managed by a private company. Still free but government gives the money to a private company to manage it (and they keep the surpluse, what it raise a problem as the service might lower the standards) and no one consider that hospital private
In the end, yes, a chair is a chair and a table is a table but you can sit on a table and eat on a chair, but both are hardly comparable like private insurance in us and switzerland
Switzerland system is way similar to the european, specially in expenditure (compared with high wages countries like the nordic) and quality
As far as management goes, I've had far fewer issues dealing with Medicare (initial start date and some bullshit with Part D) than I've had with private insurance, which give me issues at least once a month (people not knowing how to bill the proper insurance, randomly dropping prescription coverage, overly expensive, medical professionals who don't accept it, mis-entering my basic info into their system, + many more).
Doesn't Britain NHS still come top of best health care systems in the world ?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40608253
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/14/nhs-holds-on-to-top-spot-in-healthcare-survey
And considering its had the shit kicked out of it for past decade, its rather impressive(Although Medicare for all wouldn't be similar to NHS, right ?).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40608253
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/14/nhs-holds-on-to-top-spot-in-healthcare-survey
And considering its had the shit kicked out of it for past decade, its rather impressive(Although Medicare for all wouldn't be similar to NHS, right ?).
Nothing wrong with that. Even Bernie and Pelosi were willing to work with Trump.
They are so efficient in looking for ways to help customers reduce costs.
If not Bernie, I can see myself voting for Warren, Tulsi and Beto.
Long ways to go though.
But no way Biden, Harris or Pete.
Booker and Klobuchar are empty.
Long ways to go though.
But no way Biden, Harris or Pete.
Booker and Klobuchar are empty.
They weren’t willing to work for Trump.
Working for the President is working for the American people.
Of course we have seen how perverted Trump has made the position.
Under normal Presidents. She went there at the behest of Bannon to meet with Trump about a job, so whatever she says has to be taken with a massive pinch of salt.
That's a fair point.
Tulsi is a politician. But what I like about her is she is not afraid to buck the tend.
Just realised this woman is a windvane
The Hill posting that also has a certain touch of irony to it, since Krystal was fellating her on their show just the other day.
@Eboue should the bernie-bros get together and do a circle-cancellation
once again, exposure to liberals makes me so sympathetic to the bolsheviks.
just nuke the whole country
i have so much contempt for urban liberals. its not healthy
I'd like to get out first.
Aaand warren goes up in my book
There's no up to go, so stop voting for the Sandman.
Who was that saying 'i agree with all that', surely he was taking the p*ss.
I don't get some of these American pundits.
Some days I think America deserves Trump
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