That doesn't sound right

Hell my CT scans cost like $1200

MRI, not CT

Of course CT is more expensive

https://i.insider.com/58d93348112f7048008b713d?width=600&format=jpeg&auto=webp

It looks like CT scans are about half the price in Canada

of here

But yes, MRIs are less here

Right. That's what I was talking about when I said we should allow importation so arbitrage could lower drug costs. It would be cheaper if we could buy those Mexican drugs on Amazon or some shit just in gas money.

As to the CT scans you can get them in time to act here.....

and interstate insurance shopping/group buys

but like I said, no one is pushing this except Rand Paul

Trump has for at least the last 2 years. Like I said I started liking him *after* he got the job. I also think right-to-try will lower R&D costs.

Well did they pass a healthcare bill when it was all 3 chambers GOP? Nope.

so I don't have the faith

But more than any other "socialist" program I'd like to see UBI. That would get more people off the street and be able to work a McDs job or be an artist without worrying about the basics, more effective than jacking up the minimum wage to levels areas and small businesses can't pay

Get rid of income tax and cut checks every month, a lot easier. Get the money out of Amazon, etc like Yang proposed.

UBI would just make the base cost of consumer goods rise

Yeah missed it by a vote that was a real let down. AS to UBI the only proposal I saw that made sense was by Murray who said that if it was used to *replace* all other social spending it would be a net reduction. Even then I am suspicious. Because if they gave a UBI of one grand this year it would open the door for the next candidate to campaign on a UBI of 2 grand and ever upward for eternity.

Campaigns would become a bidding war over who could promise to buy the most votes.

so would a minimum wage hike raise costs

So that's different than now, how? <a:1KEKW:638018439738556416>

It does raise costs

The minimum wage argument straight confuses me. I live in a sensible place where nobody pays the minimum wage so nobody cares what it is.

Just look at Seattle, they implemented a mandatory 15$ minimum and now everything from gas to Starbucks is way more expensive compared to just one county over

UBI with no other welfare and end the minimum wage would be ideal

Something given has no value

Because people could just say "hey I don't have to work for you anyway". It puts power in the hands of the worker without going full pinko.

Ok, Rasczak

Because it is fucking Seattle. Were I in Seattle making 15 an hour I would save my pennies and buy a bus ticket to the Midwest and raise my standard of living.

High minimum wages kill small business, while a UBI isn't meant as a complete replacement for income.

It will still be used as one

It's too open to exploitation from bad actors

Ans again this is not the central problem with UBI. In an alternate universe where the water supply is spiked with a drug that strips 22 points oof the national IQ and Yang wins what next? Well someone runs against him offering to double the UBI. And then again and again.

bad actors doing what? Jacking up rent?

I already see an issue with shithole abusive hypehouses like airsoftfatty becoming commonplace

The Expanse had the interesting take on it, there were so few jobs left on Earth - 60% had to live on "government assistance" in the 23rd century because of automation

So we'll live in the Ready Player One future then

I'm down with that dystopia <:LUL:279763479634771969>

That's not a new one. Judge Dredd has like 98% of MegaCity-1 living on welfare because robots do damn near everything

large part of the craziest shit that goes on is a direct consequence of the shit people do to just keep busy