-Besides our generally unhealthy lifestyle. Our expensive healthcare also subsidizes R&D for the rest of the world.

They make money on the volume of customers, they don’t make that much money per person. The amount you pay in premiums that is insurance company profit is minimal.

The US is far and away the fattest.

What if I told you that weren’t obligated to put your money in a bank that made speculative trades? You can use power as a consumer.

Did you just google them? come on, I could have done that.

There is nothing wrong with being a veteran or a prosecutor.

Being CEO gives them experience in effectively managing limited resources. The US’s government’s doesn’t have unlimited resources, at no point can they wave a magic wand and make everyone rich. I am not saying CEOs are the ones capable of doing it but they do have experience in making the most of what they are have.

CEO’s manage a large bureaucracies, they develop an execute their visions for the future, and they manage capital. All responsibilities of the President.

I will sitting 2020 out if we nominate a populist. HELL, I will write in Hillary as a protest vote if Bernie is the 2020 nominee. I just want a sane, pragmatic, realist. Not somebody who promises everything to everyone.

I would vote for any of those people.

Mark zuckerberg just made Congress because they don’t know shit about shit. Somehow I don’t electing a mechanic is going to fix that. It’s hard to tell when you only ask softball questions.

And those places also lack the huge quantities of fat old people who consistenty made poor life choices. They chose cigarettes and big Macs over exercise and proper nutrition now we have to have to foot the bill.

And those places also lack the huge quantities of fat old people who consistenty made poor life choices. They chose cigarettes and big Macs over exercise and proper nutrition now we have to have to foot the bill.

80% of premiums are mandated to be spent on your medical expenses. It goes to doctor and hospitals and pharmacies. Going from private insurers to a government run single payer does nothing to bring down those costs. The overhead of a government run single payer isn’t going to materially lower than private insurers.…

-Artificial scarcity? People die everyday on the the transplant waiting list because of an actual legitimate scarcity of healthcare.

1.) They can’t deny coverage because of any reason so that’s a moot point

Insurance companies provide a very valuable service. You know exactly the maximum financial liability you can incur. Without insurance you could very well incur an 100,000 bill and have no recourse but to declare bankruptcy. Insurance provide a service in they take a great deal of financial risk off the table for…

So we are using a magic asterisk. You are saying we are going to pay people more for providing the same level of value and simultaneously cost are going to go down? Did you graduate the Paul Ryan School of Math? 

Of course pharmaceutical companies care about innovation. That’s how they make the big bucks. The massive profit is their incentive to take wild and costly riskly to invent new life saving treatments.

Yep, just as I expected something about as well thought out as your average “Repeal and Replace” zombie.