Why would people repave stuff that didn't need it? That makes literally no sense. I don't really believe the US government is that corrupt.
The road I take to get home goes directly over the interstate. Every day and night as I did my commute I could see the paving operation as it worked its way down the road. This road was less than 20 years old and nary a single pothole marred its surface. The airport, well I work there. I'm all over the property all morning long. The signs were very evident, proudly proclaiming it was Americorps, putting Americans back to work. When all was said and done, the only thing I could tell was different was patterned tile in the entranceway.
There was zero need for the work, and it was happening all over the state.
The thing is there are things that make sense to do privately and there are things that make sense to do publicly. Healthcare is in the latter category.
Why does it make sense to do healthcare publicly? I don't pursue my own healthcare the way you might, or anyone else reading this post. I refuse to go to doctors for anything other than acute care. The few times I've been injured at work I was beset with all sorts of therapies I wouldn't consider on my own, and these therapies ranged from useless (actively waiting for something to clear up on its own) to dangerous (massive overprescription of various drugs). And that was the result of a state-protected collusion between the insurer and employer. I can't imagine how bad it would be if the government would get in there as thoroughly as they could with a fully socialized system.
I want you to consider the danger of socialized medicine in a realistic light. By way of illustration, consider the political system. Love or hate Bernie Sanders, his followers are being disenfranchised wholesale. Despite having a very sizable and vocal group on his side, he keeps getting pushed back further and further. I don't agree with the guy, but I don't hate him. The people who believe what he says should have that much control over their own lives, but they don't. Likewise with Trump. Love him or hate him, his people are on the verge of getting disenfranchised by a loaded convention filled with oligarchs eager to hang on to their power. Said people keep screaming about loyalty to GOP values but these same people sell out their values to hang on to power. Why? Because they know better than us what to do with our lives and our country. They just
know it. People can be trusted with the vote, unless they support someone outside the accepted narrative, in which case they're obviously just mistaken and misinformed and need to be held in check for their own benefit.
Now think how that is going to work with fully socialized medicine. What if a person prefers homeopathic medicine. It had fairly widespread support in the USA prior to the advent of the AMA, but now its widely ridiculed. What if that is your preferred method of treatment? What if you prefer aromatherapy? What if you prefer acupuncture? What if you like ear-candling, chanting, LSD, or hanging upside down during full moons?
As I'm typing this I know there are people who are ready to type a response to this post based on the fact that I mentioned homeopathy, something that many people feel has been firmly discredited. Their blood will be rushing in their ears as they figure "this guy just discredited himself by bringing up this quackery, and its time to shut him down". Or something like that. Now imagine that 51 percent of those kind of people disagree with the other 49 percent who want their own choice of therapy. The majority wins. And since the majority decides how things go, and the bigger the group of people the easier it is to influence their direction, it will be easy to step on peoples' choice of therapy.
Think it can't happen? Think again. Americans are forced to go through the federal insurance database now in one way or another. The next big health care debate isn't going to face the fraud or waste of that system, its going to focus on alternative therapies and how much a drain they are on the economy. Providers will be forced out of business or forced into "respectable" alliances with MDs to keep their doors open. Costs will rise, insurers will refuse to reimburse alternatives, and those people will be done. And the whole time, SJWs will be talking about how its time people wake up to science and abandon unproven therapies.
I'll take my personal choice in my own well-being over that of the state, any day of the year. FWIW, its not homeopathy.
