@PressSec What a dumbass. You're just going to escalate it from rocks to bullets, dipshit. Have you EVER read a history book? Or is open warfare on Americans what you want?
@funke_chicken1 @joeedh@johngreen Specifically, Medicare operates more financially efficient than private health insurance, about 17x less, and Medicare serves more people than pretty much any single private insurance
@funke_chicken1 @joeedh@johngreen 1) Other countries have single payer and pay less per person than we do. 2) We have gov't run systems that operate better than private when properly funded, like the post office before Republicans defunded it. 3) The rest of what I said is proved by math. Like I said, empirical
@joeedh@toni_novakowski@johngreen Ok, but those regimes were failed states, so not actually socialism or communism. The problem is too many people are uneducated and lead from a place of fear instead of logic and understanding
@joeedh@toni_novakowski@johngreen Exactly, labor unions are socialism, and America was built on them, but people don't understand and are allowing capitalism to destroy them. You need socialism to keep capitalism in check
@toni_novakowski@joeedh@johngreen Also, I would go so far to say if it's not socialist ideals that you enjoy about America, then you're someone who worships unchecked capitalism and you aren't a very good person, so I don't really care your opinion if that's the case. I seek to help those on the fence
@toni_novakowski@joeedh@johngreen I'm not asking you to live under pure socialism or communism, just that socialism has it's place in our democracy and is literally the thing that prevents capitalism from destroying itself. Pure capitalism seeks to exploit the people, and the people are needed to keep capitalism
@joeedh@toni_novakowski@johngreen Also, private property ownership would be more against communism than socialism. Socialism only seeks to make sure everyone thrives instead of just a handful. You can still have private property AND strive to eliminate poverty
@joeedh@toni_novakowski@johngreen 1. No it wasn't, don't believe everything you hear from the right or from the minority of extreme leftism. 2. Socialism is literally the thing needed to prevent capitalism from destroying itself
@toni_novakowski@joeedh@johngreen The general population agrees what greed is. When one person has more than they'll ever need, and especially when they take that by exploiting others and allowing others to live in poverty, that's greedy
@toni_novakowski@joeedh@johngreen That's because, once again, have been shackled by the rights propaganda against socialism and communism that you don't even know what they actually are. Every good thing you enjoy about America is due to socialist ideals. Hell even the greedy capitalists take socialist handouts
@toni_novakowski@joeedh@johngreen This is purely an assumption by you. Because the people of the UK and other universal healthcare systems openly dispute your opinion, and the data showing they live longer and healthier lives than the avg American also disputes that.
@toni_novakowski@joeedh@johngreen 5) Gilead price gouges Americans for the drug despite it being largely paid by our tax dollars. That's purely corporate greed and has 0 to do with actual innovation
@toni_novakowski@joeedh@johngreen 4) Take Gilead and Prep for example. It was largely publicly funded research as well as publicly funded testing, and I bet $ that the scientists who worked on those didn't do it solely for some corporation to make insane profits. Yet despite hardly paying any of their own money
@timmynetae If you think that simply better eating, especially without a larger food reform that is outside healthcare purview, then you're very ignorant
@timmynetae I didnt say it has nothing to do, and I specifically listed it as something I believe a universal system should include. What I said was nutrition largely does not play into the problems of our current system. For example, nutrition wouldn't fix diabetics who can't afford insulin