Message from @The Supreme Xtream
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I mean, for my Data Management Project, I looked at comparing Obesity Rates to quality of Health Care and I did find a direct correlation
Japan has one of the Best Health Care Systems and one of the lowest Obesity Rates lol
When I was 19 years old I had a $10 an hour construction job and my employer was able to give me equally good coverage, then the government got involved after 2010 and insurance has been a complete mess ever since
i wonder if there's data examining the effect size of obesity on indices like the healthcare access and quality index
Obamacare is Shit, anything new?
The more you get the government involved within anything in the United States, it gets worse, more expensive and turns into a complete disaster
Not really
It's bc the US is a Corporatocracy
Whenever the Gov't gets involved, it's bc the Corporations have paid the Gov't to pass regulations that would help *them*
It's because when you have zero incentive for profit, zero competition and most of your employees are not hired upon merits, that is a recipe for disaster within any organization
Lol that isn't true AT ALL
Everyone knows the US is the most Corrupt Country in the Developed World
Corruption is literally Legal
obamacare seems like the worst of both worlds in some respects
The SCOTUS has affirmed this for over a century now
@Death in June Well, Obamacare was the Originally the GOP's Health Care Plan that Obama Stole
RomneyCare
Made by Mitt Romney
And the Wikileaks have shown that Romney was paid by the Insurance Companies to give them this plan since it would benefit them
The US is functionally an Oligarchy; what we'd call a Corporatocracy; a System of Gov't in which the Big Corporations control the State
This is actually an Argument I often use against Socialists who try blaming America's problems on Capitalism
The United States ain't a Capitalist Country, it's actually a Socialist Country...one of the Most Socialist Countries in the World; the difference is that differentiates the US from other Socialist Countries and makes em appear to be Capitalist is that all of that Socialism is for the Rich; Corporate Welfare; what we would call "Corporatist"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH9gwYMGDr4 Timcast: "Socialists and Far Leftists OUTRAGED After I Called Them Lazy And Stupid, Too Bad I'M RIGHT"
When major industries are owned and controlled by the state then you know socialism is in place. That's kind of how it works.
Socialism isn't just taxing people and spreading money around.
Are you including natural Monopolies like utilities?
If no competition is allowed, yes
Because those are usually state owned
If you can build a wind farm and sell that electricity, then no
You can sell it to the government
Whoever you want since capitalism is the system
Yeah, although realistically you'd want to sell to the government or you'd have allot of surplus electricity unless you invested enough in storage
Or, sell it to another, larger private utility company
Possibly
A big issue I see here is that a lot of people are a bit fuzzy about what a socialist system is. This is in part due to propaganda by socialists who say YOU ALREADY HAVE SOCIALISM, JUST THROW MORE (other people's) MONEY AT IT.
No, a fire department is not socialist when you can own your own.
Putting price caps on products and services won't work where there is private ownership of those things.
Fire departments are a social institution. But they're not socialist
Right