Quote from: jk_14 on August 13, 2017, 01:52:34 PM

Quote from: devthedev on August 10, 2017, 06:50:12 PM

Quote from: Sithara007 on August 10, 2017, 01:15:44 PM

Quote from: devthedev on August 10, 2017, 12:57:42 PM

You are so right! The government sucks at everything, see these two cases in the last month illustrating massive government waste of taxpayer money.

(2 million dollar park bathroom) http://pix11.com/2017/07/06/tiny-2-million-dollar-public-bathroom-opens-in-brooklyn-park/

(Man built park stairs for $550 after $65,000 government quote) http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/07/20/canadian-man-builds-park-stairs-for-550-even-though-city-said-project-would-cost-65g.html

These are just small pocket-change when compared to the trillions being spent on invading various third world nations. For example, the invasion of Iraq cost the American tax payers close to $2 trillion (till now).

Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security spends vastly more than the Iraq war each year.

As already mentioned, healthcare is a strict necessity that can not go. Furthermore, the spending on health care are only so atrociously high because pharma and insurance companies make up arbitrarily high prices that do not even remotely reflect their costs. It's an outright scam that nobody cares to do anything about, all while voting for some redundant party or presidential candidate that won't do jackshit about any of the underlying core issues.

Don't confuse healthcare with insurance. Insurance is not a right, and regulation is not the solution. Any country who has free healthcare either blows out their debt or taxes you at 70%, causing no incentive to innovate, create jobs, etc. If you increase competition and allow more private insurers to enter the marketplace, the price will drop exponentially.