LibertyTerp

Yeah, this is my question. We had a once in a lifetime opportunity to fix our healthcare system and it's only getting more and more expensive. Why was nothing done to effectively lower the cost of healthcare?

The problem is not "access", whatever that means, it's cost. In 1960 healthcare was cheap. Since government got involved in healthcare with Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs, its price has been increasing exponentially faster than anything else: http://mediatrackers.org/2013/10/01/8-charts-explain-explosive-growth-u-s-health-care-costs/

In 1965, people paid an average of $763/year for healthcare, inflation-adjusted. Today we spend an average of $7,135. We could go back to a system where we pay most of our healthcare costs out of pocket, but people are too used to the current system to do anything smart to change it.

I should be able to go on healthcare.com and search for a provider of a treatment I need like I can if I want a product from other industry.

The problem is that state government have no influence over the federal government anymore, ruining the original system of checks and balances. Ever since the 17th Amendment was ratified, the federal government has gradually but significantly increased its power at the expense of the states.

The reason you want more state power is the same reason you want competition in an industry rather than a nationwide monopoly.

I'm Libertarian, not Republican, but considering you're running against one of the few political leaders that has proposed a plan to eliminate the deficit, do you have any plan? Is there any plan you support that does so? If not, why should someone who cares about our country avoiding the depressions Greece and Spain are going through due to their national debt vote for you?

Please whichever side you agree with, up vote this because it's important that we know whether the candidate that's running to replace Paul Ryan has a better plan or any plan at all, don't you think? Don't let every question at the top be a softball like "what would you do differently?".

The nations we owe wouldn't be able to do anything about it because of our military strength, although China might bide it's time for a few decades and then come back for it when their military can compete. Of course most countries don't like to get involved in nuclear war.

Anyway, it would cause a global economic collapse that would be more similar to 1929 than 2008. You saw what happened when a few banks go bankrupt. Imagine what would happen if the economic superpower goes bankrupt.

What, are you against food? You're pro-starvation!

Because corporate farms need the money you earned more than you do. By God, they have amazing lobbyists and PR campaigns! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!