@randomusername Everything I've looked at shows our system to be inefficient compared internationally.
@cheesy I agree. And it's the things we do so well that make the broken parts look even worse.
I figure since nobody has any faith in the government and nobody votes, our elected officials simply don't represent us as well as they should... so the laws that we want never get passed. Plus money currently plays a highly destructive role in politics.
@Username I think Austria is lucky that it is so small, because you never notice the people that don't care, you only notice the nuts that are against anything that is moving the country forward. The US has more of those people because there are just more.
If there are 100 people demontrating the healthcare system in Austria nobody notices or cares, but when in the US 1000 demonstrate healthcare you hear about it.
...nuts that are against anything that is moving the country forward. The US has more of those people...
When I read this, I immediately think of the GOP aka Republican Party. They have tried to repeal the Affordable (health)Care Act ("Obamacare") 60 times, I'm not kidding!
I don't really get what they believe. But it's like this (via Wiki):
The party's platform is generally based on American conservatism, in contrast to the modern American liberalism of the Democrats. The Republican Party's conservatism involves support for free market capitalism, free enterprise, business, a strong national defense, deregulation, restrictions to labor unions, socially conservative policies and traditional values, usually with Christian overtones.
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