Where do we go from here?

[edwardware]

I would like to see the moderate middle grow, Democrats and Republicans. I would like to see the extremes in both parties further marginalized. Republicans need to support their moderate, reasonable candidates and get the House or Senate back.

I'm curious: what Republican positions, proposed by elected Republicans, or unelected Party functionaries (not some strawman alt-right nightmare) would you like to see moderated?

Perhaps we should agree with the Left that words don't mean anything but what we wish them to today, and "penumbras formed by emanations" is a coherent legal reason to fabricate any Constitutional right that's entirely absent from the Constitution, or delete any. That would certainly solve every Constitutional argument, without even the trouble of reading the document.

Perhaps we should agree that the county with the most liberal immigration requirements on the planet is dreadfully inhumane to enforce what few requirements we have, and to deport some of those non-citizens whence they came as penalty for breaking those laws.

Really, I'm curious! Maybe I'm blind, so tell me.

 

[edwardware]

I can't argue about the cost of drugs for us as compared to the rest of the world. It's a simple solution though.

I don't think there's much simple about it.

The rest of the developed world has decided that healthcare is "a right", or in other words they've prevented the market from setting prices. As a result, drug prices are completely insufficient to support drug development in the rest of the world. Like it or not, drug development projects make moon landings look cheap, and we pay for them.

If you prohibit that, I'm sure that a decade later the cost of drugs will have risen worldwide, and fallen in the US. . . but I'm not at all sure that drug development will still be occuring at nearly the same pace. The companies very well might not have the money to keep doing development projects.

Remember, when you meddle in market economics, the perverse consequences ALWAYS overwhelm the intended consequences.

 

[WrongHanded]

What in the world ever gave you the idea that we, the voters, would be in charge of a single payer health system. The government will be the one in charge. I've been in Medicare for a few years now and I can assure you we are not in charge of one damn thing. We accept what they determine we get and that's it. You can holler all you want but nothing will change.

The reason you're not in charge of medicare right now is because you and the rest of your generation don't have enough pull in the elections to make it a factor. But with everyone involved, it's something politicians running for office (or trying to stay in office) would have to address.

It'd be nice to think that the healthcare of all the older folks on medicare was an important issue for all the rest of us who are not. But that's just not the case. Same with social security, most people don't care til they need it.