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US Election Thread

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Anonymous 09/10/2020 (Thu) 05:48:01 Id: 643647 No. 3689
I'm researching the US health care system for a video I want to make and it's the fuckin hydra of cronism. Every time I find something wrong with it, there are at least another 3 wrong things that pop up. How deep does it go and how the hell can things get this bad? Jesus damn america, I don't even know what to tell you. Fix your shit. Meanwhile watch this video from this awesome channel by the Free Market Medical Association https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BotRS0HDAck and then also Bob Murphy, but it's the usual stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-wtLnxHqgM
>Jesus damn america, I don't even know what to tell you. Fix your shit. Nothing gets fixed anymore. It only gets worse.
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pic related Please make a good video that isn't cringe. We need more Libertarian youtubers, the left is totally dominating youtube and they need to be countered. I have a lot of content and ideas for potential pro-austrian/libertarian youtube videos but I'm not talented enough to make youtube videos. The Libertarians that do make arguments, end up making shitty arguments because they don't talk about theory and don't talk about central banking. If you want to collaborate let me know.
>>3692 >It only gets worse. That's democracy for you.
>>3689 btw holy shit every video on that channel needs a million more views AAAHHHH Why don't people understand??
>>3694 >the left is totally dominating youtube and they need to be countered. The left is totally dominating ALL mainstream tech sites, because they signal boost them to high hell.
>>3698 The mainstream left and right are both people that believe things would be better if only THEY were in control, even though neither ever is.
>>3699 Have you not heard about the signal carrier meme people on the right are using? It's gotten so goddam bad people are pretending to be leftists because they know the algorithm will signal boost them if they do so, just so they can then switch the message or hide their actual message under satire or as an image.
>>3700 it's tyrants all the way down
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We (the US) are responsible for well over half of all pharmaceutical innovations. Because of the Orphan Drug Law (that all of our supposed allies ignore) European countries and others can demand at-cost prices from our manufacturers while dumping their own pharmaceutical products on us (European countries have an 80% market share in the manufacture of insulin; in France they sell to themselves at roughly 1/5th the price they sell to the US https://www.france24.com/en/20190402-focus-united-states-price-insulin-killing-americans-diabetics-us-health-medicine-pharma). On another front, the US pays nearly a trillion dollars to police the central asian oil routes which primarily benefits Europe-which taxes oil at about 100% (this is why gas in France and others is like the equivalent of $8 a gallon). Europe has no military-and our presence in places like Germany actually subsidizes the local economy with US taxpayer dollars (https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1304557/Angela-Merkel-news-Germany-economy-US-Army-base-withdrawn-Donald-Trump-warning) They get free access to oil that provides billions to the EU coffers (for the record the benefit to them-which I think is modest and something like 400 million barrels reserved for Europe unless I'm mistaken-is far outweighed by our cost in defending it) They get at-cost drugs our companies had to pay billions to produce that must eventually be recouped through disproportionately burdening American consumers The EU collectively has a trade imbalance with the US worth almost 200 billion as well. Finally there's things like the totally unnecessary cost of both college and licensure (https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-doctor-monopoly-is-killing-american-patients/) which not only prevents perfectly qualified doctors from practicing but leaves new graduates with debts in the hundreds of thousands of dollars that needs to be paid off through exorbitant wages for doctors unheard of elsewhere across the world-including Europe. The high cost of healthcare in the US is a relatively recent phenomenon and like many of the worst market conditions the US has been left with the solutions are all obvious, elegantly simple and inexpensive to enforce but (((for some reason))) that hasn't happened yet even with the pricing bubble being observed for decades. If it were truly supply and demand then US consumers could purchase direct from Europe and others-forcing upward pricing pressure on EU healthcare systems and downward pressure on individual American consumers; in the EU this drugs are sold at prices they wouldn't break even on because they can recoup the losses by gouging Amerifats. Instead the FDA simply doesn't allow this to happen under the guise of keeping Americans "safe" from pre-approved drugs freely available in trusted countries. Apart from that, the bloated legal standards for practicing physicians should be relaxed and the cost of college could-with the stroke of a pen reversing previous legislation-be greatly reduced, and with these measures our healthcare apparatus could become much more manageable. Thankfully BLUMPF has been making headway with legislation that should have been passed 20 years ago or more but it doesn't do much for people who've already been ruined by this absolute clown show system that's been allowed to freely metastisize over the decades.
>>3703 >Europe has no military But that's wrong, almost every country maintains a military that they feel is needed based on what their allies provide. Germany is surrounded by allies and its military is a political target, of course it's rather small compared to say the GDP. >and our presence in places like Germany actually subsidizes the local economy with US taxpayer dollars That's an idiotic take, a massive workplace will of course spawn business around it to cater to the needs of the people working there. The US is also blockading the Russia Oil pipeline as far as I know.
>>3704 >But that's wrong, almost every country maintains a military that they feel is needed based on what their allies provide <what is 'hyperbole' Yes, and who's been doing the providing-that's the question. Why are there even US troops in Germany to begin with? https://www.newsweek.com/germany-cant-explain-use-broomstick-instead-guns-nato-exercise-307902 >That's an idiotic take, a massive workplace will of course spawn business around it to cater to the needs of the people working there. You're basically acknowledging the truth of what I'd said but saying it's wrong anyway. It costs money to station the totally unnecessary soldiers there, the soldiers are paid handsomely by the US government and they go on and spend that money in local shops and bars in Germany after they're dismissed/relieved of duty-to say nothing of the many thousands of locals that are directly employed on base. This is why they say in the article that the 100,000+ population city Kaiserslautern could become a "ghost town" full of unemployed people if the US leaves. Every EUR not spent on Germany's defense by Germany is money that can pay for Germany's welfare state, education etcetera. This is why you can rightly refer to this otherwise inconsequential military occupation by the US as a "subsidy". Something of a tangent but I see neoliberals and commies all day criticizing the size and scope of the US military while simultaneously "NOOOO!"-ing every move that's currently being made to draw down our military occupations and it makes me wonder what their real thought process is/motivations are. >The US is also blockading the Russia Oil pipeline as far as I know. 60% of Russia's export is Oil or related products and 15% or so of its economy taken as a whole is derived from the export of oil. If I had to guess we are punishing Russia for their chimping out in Ukraine and Germany for not buying enough of our shit at the same time-while also protecting our own export interests.
>>3705 They are now moving them to Poland. Germans spazzed out over losing them despite complaining about them all the time.


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