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Originally Posted by Robbie
I'm not of that belief. Monopolization corrupts. It's why we have ended up where we are.
Competition in the market is a good thing. Just look at the price of the computers we use, the cellphones, etc.
Having a CHOICE and the ability to buy a product from someone else offering a better deal is what our economy is based on.
One thing for sure...this bill from Paul Ryan was nothing more than another version of ObamaCare.
It didn't do one damn thing to bring down the actual COST of medicine and hospitals.
Ryan is just another lifetime/career bureaucrat stooge. Trump was foolish to try and put trust in him.
Or maybe not.
The political chatter now is that Ryan is damaged goods because he showed how ineffectual he was in getting his votes inline in the Congress.
That's a good thing. Now Trump can put Ryan in his place.
Trump today said that he wants to have the Democrats help him craft a new healthcare bill that they work on together that gives the US "world class healthcare" that is truly affordable.
That's what I 'm talking about. Trump campaigned saying that he felt he could work with the Democrats and cut deals with them. Schumer and the DNC said "hell no" right out of the gate (even though Chuck Schumer has been friends with Trump in "real life" for years).
Maybe this was a way for Trump to minimize Ryan and give the Democrats a way to work with him despite all the stupid "Fascist" and "Hitler" rhetoric that was thrown around by Hollywood and the media?
Isn't the bottom line that we all want GOOD things to happen in D.C. for the country?
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I appreciate your point here and ideally it's what we would all want to happen. But partisan politics is the norm now. I don't see anything changing there at all. No one can trust what tRump says or does. It would be nice if he reached out for support from the Democrats, but he is not the kind of man that will do that. An example of the monopolies you speak of would be generic insulin or epinephrine injectors and other medicines that prices are jacked because someone bought or controls the only source. There is no consumer protection there at all. When someone or a company "sells " a product, they want you to use that product, they want you to come back and back that product again when it wears out or breaks. Insurance is the only product they do not want you to use. Every one eventually will need some sort of healthcare before they die. So they have all of us by the short and curlies. The free market says fuck them and feed them beans. Government isn't just for fixing potholes and speed limits, it's for guaranteeing every single person protection and quality of life. Otherwise why don't we just throw grandma off a cliff.