Our New President - President Donald Trump

Post Reply New Topic

Privatizing things has worked sooo well for our justice system and criminal rehabilitation, health care, and banks.

I'm sure that an organization whose end goal is profit will take great care of those veterans the GOP claim to care so much about.

Donald Trump isn't my President and maybe this message is inappropriate.

The new president of the United States of America is very famous beyond frontiers.
In the western Europe, because we have a different culture — it's not better or worse, it's a fact — medias are disappointed by this election.
However, no one questions legally his election. It's not the debate, but it's easy to think American people have elected Donald Trump (because we don't know how the American president is elected, ect.).

I study this in my college.
Donald Trump was elected by only 25% of American, is it right ? In the United States, the people doesn't vote in a majority (only 50-55%, I believe).
As a matter of fact, I don't consider it's a reason to say about American : "They are new fascists". There is a lot of socio-political reasons to explain this resultat.
By the way, an American President is less powerful (regarding to the Constitution) that a French president. So, Donald Trump can't be a danger for this country, isn't it ?

I'm only worry about nominations in the supreme court. Democrats judges are very old. Donald Trump — and the Republican Party — could influence its political direction for ten, twenty, thirty years.
I'm worry because regarding to my education, to my culture, I can't be a support of the new President of the U.S.A. However, it's not in my business. It's impossible to judge someone, moreover to judge a people only because of they elected Donald Trump. I'm against these statements, because it's America first. It's an American problem. No one (especially in Europe) has the right to claim a such thing.

— There is maybe a lot of mistakes in my sentences. My English isn't very good but I want to improve it —.

cutting the science (america's tour de force) budget is making america great again?

seems this got lost in the wash.

Exactly!
It potentially opens a Pandora's box.
The people I see that support Obamacare the most are the users and takers. The ones that preach about being their brothers keeper but they themselves are the ones being kept, not doing the keeping.

There is a solution to all that: single payer.

Singapore has an interesting model.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Singapore

1. Compulsory health care savings into a private account. You are forced to save for your health care until your account has $35,000 in it. This money can be spent on family members too.

2. Optional government program for catastrophic health, and nursing home insurance.

3. If your private account is too low, and you opted-in, then the optional government insurance kicks in.

Sorry to go on about it, but... walls of nested snark, again.

Hey Raptor ...

I hereby present to you, a heart.



...

70% of Americans, including republicans, support ACA??? Not on the planet I live on.
Besides, even if they did it's still outside the role of government to require people to purchase a product which insurance is. It sets a dangerous precedence.

As health care economist Uwe Reinhardt noted,

prices for identical products or services in the U.S. tend to be, on average, twice or more than the prices of the same products and services paid in other countries…. Prices are high here because the payment side of the health system is so fragmented that few payers have sufficient market power to bargain for lower prices from an increasingly consolidated supply side [23].

Health care spending in the U.S. far exceeds that in other countries, despite a global slowdown in spending growth in recent years. At 17.1 percent of GDP, the U.S. devotes at least 50 percent more of its economy to health care than do other countries. Even public spending on health care, on a per capita basis, is higher in the U.S. than in most other countries with universal public coverage.

How can we explain the higher U.S. spending? In line with previous studies,19 the results of this analysis suggest that the excess is likely driven by greater utilization of medical technology and higher prices, rather than use of routine services, such as more frequent visits to physicians and hospitals.

High health care spending has far-reaching consequences in the U.S. economy, contributing to wage stagnation, personal bankruptcy, and budget deficits, and creating a competitive disadvantage relative to other nations.20 One potential consequence of high health spending is that it may crowd out other forms of social spending that support health. In the U.S., health care spending substantially outweighs spending on social services. This imbalance may contribute to the country’s poor health outcomes. A growing body of evidence suggests that social services play an important role in shaping health trajectories and mitigating health disparities.21,22 Additional cross-national research is needed to better understand the relationship between social services and health, as well as other health determinants like lifestyle and environment.

Single-payer healthcare is the way to go.
Despite all the scaremongering coming from the right