ACA Repeal/Replace: Progressives Face Moral Dilemma

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(04-10-2017, 02:15 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: [quote pid='24700' dateline='1491749247']


Do Americans have higher medical costs due to bad habits? At least we do not smoke much by world standards. We are not bigger drinkers than the world average. We are not more sedentary. We simply have an extreme example of profits-first medicine that no other nation would tolerate.

However compared with the Rest of the World Americans eat more carbs, meat, fatty foods and processed foods. Also, the addiction to sodas.
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Other places have bad habits also. The Vodka belt puts quite a few belts of shots down. The Scandinavian nations like to smoke and drink [as part of the Vodka.]  Now, Sweden is gonna get hit though 'cause they didn't control their border and are full up with those refugees. That's an example of how public policy fuckups make for more expensive medical care.  In the US, well now, Bernie Sanders did put a bill forth to allow for importation of drugs from other markets to get our oligarchicly sky high drug prices down.  Now, on this fuckup, it was almost exclusively a Republican endeavor to keep the status quo.  So, you see right there, Republicans don't give a shit about free markets, even though that's what they keep saying. It's obvious that when the Republicans say "free markets", then always replace that phrase with the word, "oligarchic" and then you'll know exactly what Republicans support. They do not support people, but rather whatever PACs/companies feathered their nests.
This state affairs leads to multitudes of mindless shit jobs which pay nada,zilch,nunca,nil. Now THAT is why there's bad eating/exercise habits. If you work at said shit job and were married/had kids then you're going to be too tired 'cause after your mind numbing shit job, you are tired/depressed/pissed off/ if working in person facing job , pissed off because people in general are tacky. So your "job experience" sux. Now that leads to assorted things that make the lower classes to take brief "vacations".  This includes eating fast foodies/tobacco use/ethanol/street drugs
for said vacation.