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It is astonishing to me that we can so clearly identify the ills of a society, and yet so powerless to change it to the benefit of us all.

Instead we focus on this or that detail of oppression, and refuse to see the disease at the heart of it all. After 10,000 yeas of human history, we finally have the social justice genome - now let's find the cure.
 
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If the parties agreed when forming the ACA had in addition negotiated vehemently with the exchanges/insurance companies to force lower health care costs, the ACA would probably be cemented in place.

 
MoneyMatthew said:
You [Vee] just arrived to this site what, 9 days ago? What profile did you have before this one?
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I want to remind everyone here of Rule #6 of the TOU: "Registration is limited to one username per member. Elite Trader may, without prior notice, immediately terminate any or all of your accounts after discovering you have registered, and/or posted under, multiple usernames."

If the OP does not want his current (and past) usernames terminated I suggest two things:
• he come clean with members here and reveal his previous username
• he lets me know which ONE of his usernames he wants to keep before he loses ALL of them
 
More looking at symptoms rather than disease. The disease isn't to lower health care costs or this or that detail. It's living in a system that depresses 50% of the population into more and more psychopathic behavior often leading to death. Which in the case of the behavior not resulting in death, results in higher health care costs.

Better Health Care for Less Money? It's Not Easy
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MARCH 21, 2017 6:45 AM EDT
By
Megan McArdle
"America spends more on health care than other rich nations, but has lower life expectancy." If I had a nickel for every time I have been informed this by an email, seen it in a headline, heard it in conversation, or watched it scroll across my social media feed, I would be able to personally fund a single-payer health-care system.

As with many political memes, its usefulness to policy wonks is inversely proportional to the weight that its casual proponents place on it. As stated, this meme is true enough: America does have higher health-care costs than anywhere else, and we do indeed have shorter life expectancies than some nations. But of course people are not introducing these facts as a fun bit of trivia, like “Babe Ruth used to wear a cabbage leaf under his baseball cap to keep cool.” What they are actually interested in communicating is the implication that America could switch to a single-payer health-care system and thereby enjoy longer life expectancies at lower cost. And that implication is considerably more dubious....

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-21/does-the-u-s-overpay-for-health-care-not-really
 
Vee said:
Trump's solution to the opioid epidemic is to build a wall. It never occurs to these people that it is the economic reality of these people that led them to try to escape reality in the first place. Or other injustices. Always point the finger away from the real problem and distract from the real issues.

Sympton <==> Disease

https://www.hhs.gov/opioids/about-the-epidemic/
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You suffer from multiple profile disorder and Magna has the cure. Just have some honor and come clean and tell us what other handles you are posting under or have used in the past.

I really hope you are not Futurecurrents. I don't agree with Futurecurrents on many issues but I always thought that person at least stuck to one profile.
 
Vee said:
Trump's solution to the opioid epidemic is to build a wall. It never occurs to these people that it is the economic reality of these people that led them to try to escape reality in the first place. Or other injustices. Always point the finger away from the real problem and distract from the real issues.

Sympton <==> Disease

https://www.hhs.gov/opioids/about-the-epidemic/
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Are you saying that this whole wall campaining was all about the drug consumption issue?????
Can you put links that fully support this assumption?
 
Vee said:
In order of the greatest enemies to the people of the world, especially in the US. Note well, there are no foreign entities in the top 5. Of course, what they have in common is the dung of the devil, money. The other more subtle commonality is the hierarchical structure of benefits/power within the organization.

Military Industrial Complex
Medical Industrial Complex
K Street (Washington, D.C.)
Money in Politics
The Corporation
Organized Religion
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Damn!!!! How comes you seem to have these types of insights?
 
Vee said:
It is astonishing to me that we can so clearly identify the ills of a society, and yet so powerless to change it to the benefit of us all.

Instead we focus on this or that detail of oppression, and refuse to see the disease at the heart of it all. After 10,000 yeas of human history, we finally have the social justice genome - now let's find the cure.
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Please elaborate on the "disease at the heart of it all." What is the disease?
 
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