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Getting rid of medicare could fix this price gouging, but not price gouging in medicine in gneeral. Look at insulin: The efficient market response to jacked up
by Ericson2314 5y ago
Getting rid of medicare could fix this price gouging, but not price gouging in medicine in gneeral. Look at insulin: The efficient market response to jacked up insulin prices is...um...mercy kill your diabetic relatives and procreate new ones in their stead. Yeah, no thanks.
The only solution is public healthcare and unfucked voting systems. Say it to yourself until you get it.
- dantheman 5y agoOr perhaps allow competition and not government granted monopolies through patents and approvals?
- Ericson2314 5y agoDid you read my insulin example? The patents expired, at least. Don't get me wrong, markers are good for some things, but healthcare is not among them.
- reedjosh 5y agoI disagree with both majority and minority rule, but regarding > unfucked voting systems What system would you propose? Considering our voting systems have only tended more toward 'fucked' over time, how do you propose we ever get to 'unfucked' voting systems when we are held fast by 'fucked' ones?
- marton78 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy
- vajrabum 5y agoLooks to me like our voting systems work fine. Our campaign finance systems however...
- sofixa 5y agoFirst past the post is a terrible voting system. It forces two main parties, and doesn't represent anyone whose candidate didn't win in their locality. Representative ( or mixed representative with preferential, where you vote for a party list and for a person specifically who gets ahead) is much better, and would certainly alleviate many of the US political system's issues ( like the immediate politicisation of every issue among party lines)
- radicalbyte 5y agoFull on proportional representation in both houses would do the trick. You get the occasional year of formation negotiations but it would solve so many problems in the US.
- dantheman 5y agoThe senators are supposed to represent states - their direct election has been a major source of government growth and waste.
- Ericson2314 5y agoI think you can get medicare for all even with this current shit voting system. Just will take annoyingly long. The better voting is still really important but for this issue less essential. Well done healthcare (and really, the bar is low) will also create more interest in building better institutions in general and so may help electoral reform.