Is it your basic human right to force someone else to pay for your healthcare?
Under Obamacare? Are you serious?
Anything can work great, if you throw enough money at it.
I don't mind the idea of socialized healthcare, but I have little tolerance for the idea that we can have it without substantial tax increases across the board. None of this "only tax the 2%" bullshit.
The ACA was designed to fail and put the American people through so much misery that they'll welcome socialized healthcare with open arms. The complete failure of the Republicans to repeal the ACA, like they spent years promising, has sealed the deal. Socialized healthcare is inevitable.
Some people can't see there being a profit to providing healthcare without an actual profit. The same can be said about education.
Public schools have always been pretty terrible. Those parents that can afford it, voluntarily enroll their kids in private schools (that make a profit) because they're better. It's also why charter schools are becoming so popular so quickly - they're significantly better than public schools with the test scores to back it up. Yet again, you're not making a very strong case for government monopolies here.
I don't know about other states but in MA this is absolutely not the case. Charter schools here are basically on a random lottery system and they do end up with special needs kids, minorities, and so on. All of those kids end up doing far better than public school graduates because the quality if education is higher and because teachers actually have to earn their living because they don't have a union protecting their lazy asses.
Here's an anecdote of my own: my algebra 2 teacher in the best public high school in my city once drew a number line that had the following numbers: 3, 2, 1, 0, -0, -1, -2, -3, etc. When I questioned the obvious issue, he defended it.
It's also why charter schools are becoming so popular so quickly - they're significantly better than public schools with the test scores to back it up. Yet again, you're not making a very strong case for government monopolies here.
Public schools have always been pretty terrible. Those parents that can afford it, voluntarily enroll their kids in private schools (that make a profit) because they're better. It's also why charter schools are becoming so popular so quickly - they're significantly better than public schools with the test scores to back it up. Yet again, you're not making a very strong case for government monopolies here.
I know, CNN has been doing it for years