I'm extremely hopeful that congress will do something crazy like repeal that or otherwise screw things up SO BADLY we, as a country, backlash far enough to soci

I'm extremely hopeful that congress will do something crazy like repeal that or otherwise screw things up SO BADLY we, as a country, backlash far enough to socialize the basic human rights. EVERYONE should have healthcare. Just provide and tax to fund. It'd be cheaper than their medical bills, and WAY less headache if they don't have to deal with medical billing <<< THAT is the selling point. Everyone should have retirement... wait that's what social security was supposed to be right? What's the problem *(other than funding it)... Medicine has developed 'old people jails' to turn the elderly into medicine consuming vegetables like some dystopian videogame or movie? Well... socialize that and have the experts figure something out. That's clearly a problem of improperly aligned incentives wound around a bunch of stuff I'd like people of various correct fields to address. Why there aren't people in big cities: Costs too damned much to DO anything here; the rent is WAY too high. (we need to build a LOT, a WHOLE LOT more to catch up to years of not enough housing and slightly less not enough of the other stuff). Why there aren't people in the rural areas: I suspect that though the rent is nicely low, the population density no longer supports the service. PART of that could be addressed by getting everyone on the same service (single payer healthcare), 3000 people sounds like enough for a basic family practice doctor to me. That's seeing ~10 people a day for 300 days out of 365 days a year. However that's about it.