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I can find many many many Canadians that complain about the level of care they get from the Canadian system warning Americans never to allow a system like their

by syshum 5y ago

I can find many many many Canadians that complain about the level of care they get from the Canadian system warning Americans never to allow a system like theirs to happen here.. Long Wait times, inability to see specialists, or get surgeries or MRI's etc US Care is expensive, and we need to solve that, but I still am not convinced turning it over to our inept worthless corrupt government is the best or only solution to the problems with paying for US healthcare

triceratops 5y ago
> inept worthless corrupt government If you seriously believe the government is that bad, then fixing it should be your top priority. Above all else. You can't have a successful country if the government is corrupt. And you can't just patch and hack around its failings. That shit will eventually catch up.
- syshum 5y ago
  I believe government is inherently corrupt and can not be fixed. As you consolidate power and authority into a central structure it by nature attracts unscrupulous people that wish to dominate others with that power The only way to resolve the problem of corruption is distribute and limit the power /authority any group of people has, instead we have slowly over the course of time vested more and more power into a ever growing federal government that continues to become more and more corrupt. Power corrupts, Absolute Power Corrupts absolutely. The US Federal government was designed to be very Limited and subservient to the people and the States. Over the last 230 years we in the US have lost sight of that, and instead many now believe the government is our sovereign, is the ruler, is the source of our rights, etc. We have lost sight that we are suppose to be self governing, and that our rights are natural not granted by government. In my view the government that governs the least governs the best, and giving control over my health to said government transform the relationship between citizen and government in a ways irreparably harm the principle of self governance, and individual liberty.
  - triceratops 5y ago
    There's no reason for the federal government to run healthcare, even in a single-payer world. There are other implementations of universal healthcare where it could be run by states or counties.

by syshum 5y ago

triceratops 5y ago

> inept worthless corrupt government If you seriously believe the government is that bad, then fixing it should be your top priority. Above all else. You can't have a successful country if the government is corrupt. And you can't just patch and hack around its failings. That shit will eventually catch up.

syshum 5y ago
I believe government is inherently corrupt and can not be fixed. As you consolidate power and authority into a central structure it by nature attracts unscrupulous people that wish to dominate others with that power The only way to resolve the problem of corruption is distribute and limit the power /authority any group of people has, instead we have slowly over the course of time vested more and more power into a ever growing federal government that continues to become more and more corrupt. Power corrupts, Absolute Power Corrupts absolutely. The US Federal government was designed to be very Limited and subservient to the people and the States. Over the last 230 years we in the US have lost sight of that, and instead many now believe the government is our sovereign, is the ruler, is the source of our rights, etc. We have lost sight that we are suppose to be self governing, and that our rights are natural not granted by government. In my view the government that governs the least governs the best, and giving control over my health to said government transform the relationship between citizen and government in a ways irreparably harm the principle of self governance, and individual liberty.
- triceratops 5y ago
  There's no reason for the federal government to run healthcare, even in a single-payer world. There are other implementations of universal healthcare where it could be run by states or counties.