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Originally Posted by Tchocky
Christ, whatever then.
You do realize that laws have to be about specific things?
Can't just write "fix everything" and make that the law.
Also, for all the handwringing about debt you do realize that the ACA is very much a cost controlling measure designed to reduce the budget deficit?
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Cost controlling? A monopolist in blackmailing protection koney - the state - being in bed with a monopolistically-run business - "health" industry and pharmaceutical industry - delivering Americans a health care standard costing roughly twice as much per head than in Germany, and now costing even more people even more money - mandatorily? Why are people so eager to put foxes in charge of hen-houses?
Too big communities, too much cartel-stuff, too much lobbyism, too much monopolism, too much state, too much demand for more state, too much ignoring of the fiscal snowball disaster, too much bribery of voters by politicians, too much desire in voters to get bribed. Everybody wants to believe in Santa Clause, assuming that all those gifts come for free.
Meanwhile, the heap of price tags has outgrown the stockpile of gifts and presents. The giant hammer falls. We already can see its shadow in the sky. May take some more years til it impacts in the ground. But one day it will, and then its Sayonara all around.
It's all not to be solved within the existing system and with the established personnel and within the contemporary understanding of communal organisation, for the system is porked from A to Z, the communities are beyond any managable size, and the ruling personnel is deeply corrupted and has zero interest in achieving improvements that would necessarily include to make themselves dispensable.
The most social policy is the one that leaves people the freedom to earn by their work or own property what they need for a living, in fair dealing and trading with others, may it be customers or employers/employees, and so to come up for the costs of their living by their own work, and/or wealth. Anything and anyone interfering with this, may it be state, institutions, monopolists, "social" demands, must be crushed. What has ruined America's healthcare system and the social systems in Europe as well is lobbyism, hope for excessive socialist utopias, an intentional denial of most profound and basic rules of responsible economic and fiscal management, the basic principles of reasonable policy.
You cannot spend yourself out of debts. That is a myth, the blue flower of economics, the belief in fairies coming to your rescue. The only way in which lasting wealth - real wealth, not just bits of paper - is created, is by work, and canniness, foresight and preparation for bad times, living by what you can afford, not getting yourself into debts. That may not be sexy. But it is true. From generation to generation, it may slowly grow wealth that improves life for all. It may not be spread equal throughout society, but then: it does not have to, for the dysbalance is the motor of ongoing wealth production. The only thing that is distributed equally in socialist societies, is poverty and scarceness of goods.