Ok, since that thread is getting all packed out with racism and illegal immigration, I figured I'd spawn off a new topic dedicated to politics, specifically....


Healthcare.

Discuss.

My views are on the thread below, but I'll ellaborate more as people post their own thoughts. My thought is that the current US policies towards healthcare are fragile and slowly moving towards their inevitable collapse. My thought also, is that Carter was an asshole when he devised the current system we have of referrals and primary care physicians. Ideally, I'd like a minimalist system and some way to bring competition into the healthcare industry to drive down prices, as opposed to the current trend of spiraling them upwards. Rather than going with a highly restricted, socialistic universal healthcare system (something I believe would utterly stagnate R&D in the medical industry if the United States adopted it), we should go with a far more open and unrestricted system.

I'm not exactly sure how it should work though, what're your thoughts?