A Direct-Democracy Healthcare Bill

Scott Adams' Blog

I don’t know much about Congress, and all its arcane rules, but I think the process for creating a healthcare bill goes something like this:

1. Congress asks lobbyists to write a bill that is good for the healthcare industry and bad for the American public.
2. The bill fails because Congress is neither credible nor functional. But the public doesn’t care too much about the failed bill because it wasn’t for their benefit anyway.
3. Repeat.

With our current system (a Republic), that’s as good as we can do in 2017. The politicians need money to stay in office, and this is how they earn it – by selling out their constituencies.

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