Johnny_Lawless_Esq

Californians are already paying for a single-payer system - but aren't receiving the benefits.

This could also be said of the US as a whole. A 2015 study by the Commonwealth Fund shows the blindingly obvious (that the US spends more money on healthcare than any other nation), but it also shows that the US spends more PUBLIC MONEY per capita on healthcare than any nation except Norway. ~$4100 per capita of tax dollars and deficit spending. That's more than the UK with the NHS, that's more than France's national insurance system, that's more than Germany's national insurance system. That's more money than any national healthcare funding system in the world except one, yet medical bankruptcy is still a thing. If we were to take that money, and even a fraction of what we spend on private medical insurance, we could have a world-class national health insurance system.

The money is there. We lack only the will to use it.

I have to ask the needful:

What are your personal bests for Q.W.O.P.?

I'm a Space Brat; my earliest memories of rockets and space stuff were back in the mists of time, when my father worked at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company (he actually just retired last week).

While I'm a firm believer in the need to further the exploration of space in order to help secure our future on earth, what we almost never hear about is the environmental impact of space launches. Where might I learn more about that (in a balanced way, it sometimes seems that most sources dealing with the topic just say how rockets are evil and horrible), and what is NASA/ATK doing, if anything, to reduce the negative effects of space travel on our environment?