(January 4, 2019 at 3:34 am)Angelina Wrote: "We never have the right debate in America concerning healthcare which would get to the root of the problem. Should we allow healthcare to be just another business run for profit? Japan asked this question and said no and set up not for profit corporations to administer healthcare. So now an ultrasound exam that costs many thousands of dollars in the US cost less than $100. Doctors are paid well but there are few millionaire MDs in Japan. Hospitals are not for profit and so a room there is a fraction of the cost in the US. There are NO insurance companies taking a huge chunk of healthcare dollars as profits for themselves and their stockholders and there is no multimillion dollar lobbyist being paid by healthcare dollars to influence Japans government to help them bilk the sick and injured. Because it is not for profit drug companies are forced to compete for the business and the government negotiates far cheaper prices than these same companies charge in our for profit system. Way more money is spent on prevention in Japan because in a not for profit system good health outcomes are rewarded instead of the sickly being profitable in our messed up parasitic system. As long as for profit corporations run our system healthcare will remain the largest government expenditure and the underlying problem of soaring cost will never be addressed because high costs, sick people and large profits is what our system is designed to produce"
That's because Japan has almost no Christian population to speak of.
(January 3, 2019 at 3:26 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: My biggest issue with it though is that if we give the government more power, then there's always a risk of abuse of that gained power. Even if not know, then in the future.
Oh yeah? You better like society with gigantic corporations that can subsidize the government and make them poison the people so they can make a profit?
I do get why Christians are pushing this "big government" mantra because then lobbyists can't control the politicians. This way rich companies, including Churches, can buy politicians and make them do what ever they want. And this is why Christians love Trump no matter how "unchristian" he behaves because they can easily buy him and as oil and coal companies are having they way with him so do Christian organizations, I mean take Betsy DeVos who is loosening federal regulations on religious colleges and universities so that faith-based entities can receive federally administered funding.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"