Work Reform

The US loves war, they have had the war on terror, the war on drugs and now they have the war on immigration and freedom.

But sadly there has never been a war on sickness...

What would that look like, I mean you have the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, what about setting up a Public Health corps?

I am talking, military uniforms, armored mobile trauma centers, guns (every one in the US loves guns), emergency swat style units to quickly access unhealthy people, Public Health corps facilities where unhealthy or sick people get taken to and treated, tactical gear for doctors and nurses, picatinny rails on syringes, camo scrubs, tactical public vaccination vehicles (thinking like a jeep without a roof, fully loaded with doctors and nurses with air rifles firing vaccines, doing raids in anti vax areas.

Humm, I kinda want to see a movie like that, enforced mandatory public healthcare....

A sizable and obnoxiously well-funded faction of Americans have been fighting New Deal reforms for almost a hundred years. Rural folks living on astro-turf for generations believing that bootstraps were not a joke. Sacrifices must be made on the altar of capitalism. Same reason MAHA wants people to die of preventable diseases. Thin the herd, cull the weak, fuck the poor, save humanity. "We can't afford it" has always been absolute horseshit. The willpower isn't there, corporate America needs its subsidies, failure is free money. They won't take their own advice and let the free market decide. Socialism for oligarchs, gambling for everyone else.

Will America continue to be a hyper-individualist/ everyone for themselves/hustle and grind/zero sum/I got mine so fuck you society? Or will we come together and try to make our nation a good place for us all to live the healthiest, happiest life possible? I guess we'll see. I can tell you, though, the former is not sustainable. The everyone for themselves/zero sum way requires violence to maintain, and it will end in violence.

Million, billion, trillion? What's the difference?

A factor of a thousand. The refecting pool is a silly distraction! Total bullshit, but you could renovate a million reflecting pools for the price of one useless war (assuming you don't value the lives or property of the people you're fighting).

1,500,000,000,000
       16,000,000
    3,300,000,000

Zillions of dollars!

But the liberals piss money away, right? What a joke.

Then fucking do something about it instead of complaining about it on social media every second of every day.

For the strongest, most free nation on the planet, you Americans sure are a bunch of cowards when it comes to defending those freedoms you so claim to love so much.

You want change, force it. Trump is going for another term and you’ll all just sit there and complain on social media.

Fight.

The US came close, but damn it feels like the craziest social experiment to have the average American vote for their best interest.

I mean

Yeah

But there are a couple issues with this statement from a logical standpoint grounded in reality:

1. It's estimated that Universal Healthcare would be cheaper, actually. Letting hospitals and insurance companies set prices drives up the margins, and almost all of the insurance industry is just needless overhead. It would cost negative money to make the US Government the pricemaker for medical care, and the US Government would spend less money than it currently does to maintain it.

2. Even if that were not the case, HYPOTHETICALLY, if you just extrapolate the costs of Medicaid to cover everyone, you're looking at between tens of billions to hundreds of billions, not 3.

I think it's bad framing. Deficit spending on war should be called out on its own potential badness compared to tax paid single payer healthcare. It's easy to dismantle this kind of argument compared to explaining the actual plan in simple language. We will save everybody money and supercharge the economy with single payer healthcare by reducing how much you pay, how much your employer pays, and increasing overall quality. And we will pay for it at the same time. The only people who lose are middlemen and vultures whose income stream are dependent on the current system. And the provision of care will be responsive to what society wants (if folks actually take the responsibility to ensure it, which unfortunately Canada and the UK prove they often don't). Comparing that, a real plan, to just dumping your money into a pit with a useless war and wasteful governance shows that you're qualitatively different than the idiots who cannot pour piss out of a boot with the instructions on the heel.