Cruz was making a point. He probably should have just said “other countries” - but the point was that this “agreement” is TERRIBLE for the USA. There is simply NO WAY that 195 countries could be monitored and held accountable. Just think about that.
I am not aligned completely with either party and honestly for someone to truly believe that “their party” is correct - is insane. I don’t understand how anyone can be unwilling to look at EACH and EVERY issue independently. The problem is that 99.9999% of people (at least here in the USA) who say they understand or are educated on a subject - got their information from a biased source.
I am very fiscally conservative, but also agree that we HAVE to revamp our healthcare system. The problem isn’t highly paid doctors - it’s hospital administration and even more the bloated pharmaceutical industry. I think doctors SHOULD make a fortune if they are great doctors. For those that would argue that we wouldn’t have the innovation in pharmaceuticals - THAT WOULD BE AWESOME! There are FAR too many drugs being pushed. We do nothing in terms of educating people on taking control of their health and showing that a huge majority of medical problems can be prevented and even reversed via natural supplementation. I deal with thousands of seniors and have seen (unfortunately only a few) people who are in their late 90’s who have excellent health and take ZERO medication. Those few that I have been fortunate to speak in length with have told me that most of them only found this later in life. One man had cancer in multiple organs - he was in his late 50’s and went through treatment and surgery - but also REALLY dug into taking control of his health. He had been obese like that shizz guy and took tons of meds. Now he is 96 and takes ZERO meds.
I forgot to mention the root problem of health care. It's pretty simple but not simplistic. You are talking about the consequences of an inherently flawed system and not the flaw itself and why it would be a huge mistake to have a completely government-run health care system.
The problem is that it's a third-party payer system. Sure you pay your insurance cost and all that but as much as people like to bash capitalism and free-market it's really the best way to get the most bang for your buck. Competition forces excellence and efficiency. You better make things better and cheaper or you fail.
Think about it. When your doctor schedules you for an MRI you don't go shopping for who has the best deal because you are not directly paying for it. For example, if you want to buy a car or anything for that matter you are concerned with two things, the price, and the quality. You want the best quality for the best price. Only you can decide what that is. That is a first-party purchase. The paying is the one using.
Say, you are buying something for someone else. Say, for a wedding gift. You care a lot about the price because you are paying for it but a little more flexible about the quality because you are not going to use it. Or say you are going to use something but not pay for it. Ever been taken out for dinner where the host says, "Everything is on me." Now that Steak and Lobster is within reach. You care a lot about the quality but no so much about the cost because you are not paying for it. These are second party purchases: the paying is not the person using.
Now we come to third party purchases. A purchase made with money that is not yours for a product that you are not going to use. And that is what ALL government purchases are. Purchases where there is no incentive or consequences to the cost and the quality. There is an inherent inefficiency to such a system. If you don't care about cost or quality then there will always be waste in such a system. Prices will always go up and quality will remain the same or go down.
Economics, because of it's system of rewards and punishment, does more to predict and influence behavior than any psychology course ever will. Even retards for the most part will spend their money better than the government can because if they don't there are real consequences to be had. With the government their are no consequences. If they run out of money they just take more it from the people and cost just keep going up.
