[ixacto]

Agreed. But there is also a Medicare funded residency bottleneck that we also have to take care of.

We could accept doctors from other parts of the world to do residencies here but imo Che fear would then be that doctors get paid less, and the system is against that and wants to keep it broken. We could also make healthcare education free to the student, but only pay in the 150-250 range much lower than current 600-1.2MM range.

This is one thing that most democrats and republicans don’t want to fix. Biden has explicitly came out against single payer universal healthcare as that would go way against what the corporations want.

So why do people keep voting democrat?

[avgDev]

Why do people keep voting republican?

It isn't the parties that are the issue. It is the money in politics. You could go back 100 years and find both parties passing laws and marketing them as beneficial...but in reality they benefited big business. Corporate overlords expect return on their investment.

[wbsss4412]

> So why do people keep voting democrat?

What’s the alternative in your mind?

[ixacto]

Third party like Yang is doing or abandon this broken system altogether and form a new government as the founders had suggested. But there are way too many political and business interests that want to keep the status quo.

[wbsss4412]

Both of those are fairly gargantuan lifts. I can see where you’re going, but I don’t think it’s realistically a choice between “vote Democrat” or “form a new party/government”. Most of the work for the latter has nothing to do with voting per se, rather it would require a significant amount of infrastructure to be built up. Voting is more of a final act after a series of significant movements.

Hence my skepticism of people complaining about people just voting for democrats. It seems like you don’t appreciate the gap between your preferences and the current structures.