Comment by vel0city

> but it seems to be the best system i've witnessed

How many systems have you actually witnessed firsthand? Have you spent life uninsured with medical issues before? Have you ever actually had significant medical debt?

> Medical debt can't effect your credit score, and they can't garnish you wages to pay it off

This isn't true across most of the country. It really makes me question your idea "the best system i've witnessed", as you're repeating commonly held beliefs which are not based on reality.

https://www.moneylion.com/learn/debt/medical-debt/can-medica...

This then only really applies for emergency healthcare, and even then only really to stabilize you enough to send you out the door. Sure seems like the worst way to administer kinda-sorta-not-really-free healthcare. Wouldn't it be better to just provide solutions to remediate and manage issues before they end up in the most expensive form of healthcare, probably over and over?

> There's no reason I need someone who went to school for 16 years when i break an arm or feel sick and want some over the counter drugs.

This is already a thing and is rapidly growing. Urgent care centers largely staff NP/PAs, which can write prescriptions. Its becoming more common for these providers to have many shifts with only NP/PAs as the highest clinical position instead of having an MD/DO as well. PA's didn't go to school for 16 years.

That said, if I break my arm I'm definitely going to want to go to an ortho if I've had even a slightly significant break. Not healing right will mess you up for life.

Once again, are you sure you understand this system you're claiming is the "best system"? If you don't even begin to understand the basics of the claims you're making, how are you so confident this system is the best? Random internet memes tell you it is so? Yeah, sure, you're more likely to survive some uber rare cancer. You're more likely to die in child birth or due to some random disease, all while spending more to subsidize some billionaires yacht habits.

> sending enormous quantities of subsidized agricultural products into Africa

I can get behind winding down enormous amounts of food aid when there aren't active famines happening. If we're really wanting to help, it would be far better to give aid to help jump start their own food production, enable them to be self-sufficient instead of the corporate farm welfare we had. Defined road maps to taper aid when good infrastructure is in place and well supported would be important.

Its still not exactly wise policy to suddenly one day completely cut it all off. Its also not the only thing that was suddenly slashed. Tons of people reliant on medications to live were suddenly cut off without any possible supplier in the area, among many other things.

You're then also so worried about how expensive these programs were. Its like worrying about how much crushing debt you're in financing luxury cars so you decide to cut back on buying a candy bar every other week. Problem solved guys! We did it! Good job! Applause all around! Just ignore how we've actually increased spending after all these rounds of government efficiency cuts!

Sure seems like the last time we had someone focusing on getting in and cutting wasteful budgets, focusing on actually getting consensus on what was wasteful, we actually managed to have a budget surplus. Who was that guy again? Which party was that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Partnership_for_Reinv...

Maybe Musk should have learned from history instead of assuming he knows everything already. Maybe he would have actually been successful.