As someone who’s in principle very much in favor of reducing the size of the federal government, I’m resigning myself to the idea that Trump’s psychotic wrecking-ball attempt is going to discredit the whole idea for a generation.
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There is one scenario where the pendulum might massively swing back: if a far left Democrat gets elected in 2028 and screws up the economy even worse with things like wealth taxes and extreme regulations.
It will discredit the idea, but between the firings, the chaos, and the fact that a diminished fed govt will be the new base line – and the Supreme Court possesses its own wrecking ball as well – I predict we both die in a nation with a far smaller federal govt.
I don't know about that. Bad conservative ideas never seem to die despite horrific evidence of their wrongness. Trickle down still dominates conservative economic policy.
Maybe rethink your principle. The system we had limited our government, which has lead to poorer outcomes in general for our people. No universal healthcare, poor outcomes. Local public schools starved of funds, poor outcomes. No federal energy policy, poor outcomes.
After navigating the healthcare system in USA and seeing people with the same condition navigating their healthcare system in the UK and Canada I chose the USA system.
Once you understand the limitations of Universal Healthcare as implemented in the UK or Canada I don't think you will support it.
LOL I have friends who moved from the US to both of those places & neither would ever want to go back to this shitty system. You are either lying or you have a plan that few could afford here.
Your anecdotal experience and what you “saw” of other systems does not describe the entire system. There are tons of studies that show less cost, more coverage, better health outcomes for universal coverage. When it comes to outcomes US isn’t even in the top 10 systems.
Outcomes for people who were able to get treated by state approved procedures.
What about those forced to get procedure X when Y was a better choice for them but not an option for their country? What does your "research" say about that? Nothing. Because you can't track data that doesn't exist.
As it should. Republicans never really wanted smaller government and less regulations, they wanted government to serve capital in a differently regulated scheme to control labor and port public funds to private pockets.
"As someone who’s in principle very much in favor of reducing the size of the federal government,"
Have you ever taken a look at the quality of the most eminent people who've wanted to do this and wondered if maybe you're running with the wrong crowd
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Years are long. On the scale of a few decades, there's no predicting anything. Forecasting certain gloom is just unwarranted on that time scale.
Once you understand the limitations of Universal Healthcare as implemented in the UK or Canada I don't think you will support it.
What about those forced to get procedure X when Y was a better choice for them but not an option for their country? What does your "research" say about that? Nothing. Because you can't track data that doesn't exist.
My experience is only with prostate cancer and BPH.
I'm sure for everyday conditions and proactive testing universal coverage would be fine.
I would certainly support some sort of hybrid system
Have you ever taken a look at the quality of the most eminent people who've wanted to do this and wondered if maybe you're running with the wrong crowd
And by god I mean undead FDR.
America is absolutely starved of public goods in almost every way. Reducing the size of government is wrong.