Lol, the first thing that popped into my head.

One person can be the solution. One person who has a clear perspective of the problem(s), a vision to move forward, and the power to do so; solves problems by the perspective and vision being good and getting people on board from the top down. That's how one person solves a big problem. They find the solution, get people to agree and work in concert, and sideline the people in the way.

Most people, though, aren't capable of this. Hopefully this guy is.

I don't know, trains aren't supposed to turn around. That's what the tracks are for.

Jk

Judging an entire healthcare system is not a trivial thing and what constitutes "great" is not straightforward. This is why I brought up our cancer survival rates. Cancer is a notoriously hard thing to treat and is a very complex thing. Doing well in that is a very good sign. Additionally, we have world class medical institutions like the Mayo clinic and John's Hopkins, which drive a lot of excellence and innovation in the US health care system. There's quite a lot of travel to the US for medical procedures, which certainly suggests quality in comparison to others.

It doesn't appear that you're open to any challenging evidence given how you flippantlty dismissed the example I gave with no analysis.

As you can see from my comment, I didn't dehumanize them. I did put them in context, though. Also, you're mistaken about our Healthcare. Our Healthcare is some of the best in the world. One great stat of ours is cancer survival rates, it's one of the top. People fly to the US all the time for complicated procedures for a reason.

Our health insurance system is problematic. People confuse the two fairly often.

Criticizing the socialist alternatives is fair game IMO, and I was thinking moreso of Canada and England's systems. The detoxes and rehabs I brought up because those can literally be life changing and the lack of quick access to them can be a life or death thing. It's an area where I have a lot of personal experience. I once talked to someone in England who was an alcoholic who decided they needed help. They said they were approved for rehab but they'd have a bed in 8 months. Compared to next day or next week for private insurance, I think it's fair to call out the differences. There's obviously a lot of other differences too. Criticizing a system isn't a black or white thing, where doing so means you want it entirely annihilated and disavowed.

30 million is a lot. In a country of roughly 330m people that accounts for about 9%. That's pretty good in that it indicates that 91% do have insurance. The remaining 9% need options too, but ripping out something that works pretty well for 91% to accommodate the 9% is not a good strategy. Better to consider how to approach that small percentage instead while working in the existing structure, which is certainly doable. The problem is, people don't get elected for good, simple, boring solutions, they get elected for declaring they're going to rip everything out and bring utopia for us all.

For one thing, when I was in rehabs there were some people there who were under "scholarships" as the administration put it. They had no insurance and were there for free. It was because someone who cared for them reached out and described the situation to the facility, kindly asked if there was anything they could do, and they opted to take them in at no cost out of compassion. That only works though when it's a small percentage, they need to sustain the system with the majority of people who have insurance paying their way.

Psychotic? That seems a bit extreme. What I am describing is a typical experience with private insurance. Most of the time people describe health insurance in the US like only 10% of people have it.

Plus, if someone figures out how it works well, doesn't that interest you?

Everything works for the rich. Money can be exchanged for goods and services.

It also works great for anyone with private health insurance, which I imagine is quite a few. I had to have surgery a day after a nasty fracture and I am quite impressed with the results. It was probably under a thousand out of pocket.

I also got into multiple detoxes and two rehabs the next day after calling, covered by insurance. Try getting that QOS in a socialist system.

Batteries and motors have come a long way.

Here is your solution.

Or the commuter rail /s

As I read recently: artificially constructed situations lead to artificial reactions. Our minds have "error correction" built in that takes context into account (e.g. those phases with "the" written twice on two lines), which can make the analysis to oddly constructed questions nuanced.

You need to update your conspiracy theories. The more recent ones would be like:

"That building was CGI and the people in the video were actors. The earthquake didn't happen."

I really hope so, but I feel that is unlikely. If this situation escalated quickly I don't want to imagine how many people were in there.

Yeah, the old way is to prime it with sugar and seal it to create the carbonation after the fermentation cycle. Home brewers do this to carbonate in bottles. I don't know how this would have been done back in the 1800s. Bottled beer would be expensive to transport vs barrels, but do barrels go flat after they're tapped?

There's a lot of variables that if there was a process it would be interesting. At the same time it would make more sense to just serve wine and liquor.

Something else I have wondered is, did they have beer? Beer would be tough to have out in places with no refrigeration and tough to keep carbonated I would think.

The rest of the country hasn't figures out circles yet? They seem kind of intuitive.

Being stupid is how you end up smart. You do all the stupid ideas, you see how they don't work out, then start forming better ideas.

Maybe check your math. Someone born in 1948 was 18 in 1966. Vietnam went until 1975. That's plenty of time past 18 to be drafted.

That's life in the city. There's guys on two decker bikes that I hate but they get to be in public too.

Probably not, somewhere I read they're doing this now rather than going door to door.

What's the problem though? They seem to just talk to people that approach them and don't bother anyone else.