A single payer system would slash health care spending 30% or more by eliminating the profit and overhead of insurers, reducing costs to providers who would no longer have to complete obfuscating paperwork requirements for dozens of different insurers and an increase in public health due to preventative and better care, among other things.
single payer is a bad thing, no competition, prices go up
if they dont then you run into them not paying fair prices, and doctors not working with them
Our massive debt is the combination of a number of things, but primarily
- continuing wars for corporate profit ($3 trillion to date)
- the Bush Tax Cuts ($2.8 trillion to date, enacted during wartime!)
- the inability to collect any tax on hugely profitable corporations like GE ($15 billion in profits in 2010 should have provided over $5 billion in tax revenue, instead they received government subsidies of $3 billion)
- the $5-6-7-8 trillion (pick one) Wall Street / bank / mortgage / insurance / auto bailouts.
on ge, read this
The truth about GE's tax bill - Fortune Features
they did pay taxes. the refund reported was a reporter not knowing all the facts. the subsidies are called write offs, the government does not give ge money. corporations are allowed to deduct business expenses such as research and dev. corporations are in it for a profit, if not then they would either close down or be called government
If we had a more responsive regulatory government that wasn't in the pocket of big business the bailouts wouldn't have been necessary ...
The largest public assistance program in history was the
New Deal. It got us out of the First Great Depression and it's reenactment is exactly what we need now. Crumbling infrastructure, ancient utility grid, environmental disasters, all desperately need attention and could provide jobs for millions while leading us forward into the new millennium.
economists are beginning to re-exam the new deal and the great depression. they believe now in some circles that the new deal extended the great depression by interfering with the natural order of business
Instead we keep cutting taxes on the wealthy and corporations. We've been doing that for for decades and look at where it got us. Eliminate government spending and you might as well move to China and get a job in a coal mine.
we are cutting taxes for everyone, not just the rich
what we need to do is get rid of the current tax system and go something simplier, no deductions, but lower rates. or replace it with the fair tax. the current tax code is too large and allows to many loops holes
Small government is not necessarily the ideal, a government that is responsive to the needs of its citizens - rather than corporations - is. The SEC had 2 investigators watching Wall Street. That's a good example of how small government doesn't work.
no thats an example of stupidity (or goverment as normal) its the SECs job to watch wall street. they failed to do it properly. how large is the SEC? and why could they onlyspare 2 investigators?
We are in that position, but the corporate interests that control Washington don't want it to happen. Bilateral legislation is what we already got, written by lobbyists and thier stooges (congressmen).
its special intereests that control DC, corp or otherwises
get rid of the environmentalist, allow new power plants, drilling, ect
heck you cant even build wind farms without people yelling about it killing birds or some thing. fine build nukes, build coal, what ever, just build it
Watch Vermont, they are on the road to a single payer system that may very well end the choke hold private insurance has on our citizens and our economy.
uuummmm yeah ok. thats what mass thought too
