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[–] 23528772? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Answer the question. How many people dying in the US would be acceptable versus the amount of people losing their positions, companies, farms, retirement funding etc?

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[–] 23534459? ago 

Well, I'm taking a 30% hit on my retirement savings at the moment. Not happy about it. I'm kinda down on death panels. Whether in the present form: for-profit health care, or in the form of government groups that "decide." We come back to not numbers, tho, but who decides. Is it like what Stalin said about votes: it doesn't matter who votes; it matters who counts. Do we give the decision to people who have profited from the work of others. Or do we give it to the others? And how on earth do we make either of these ways work. - The big losers at the moment appear to be big companies that have responded, correctly, to the market and saved as close to nothing as possible. Small companies and small farms? That's laughable. We have displaced these for years in the interest of cheaper and cheaper. Smart management has sent skill overseas. What jobs we are protecting, and probably we need to do so, is the low-wage and short hours segment of the economy that lives from paycheck to paycheck. And without health care. In the end, we are going to discover that our economy was a hollow sham. Printing money to give to people is the path to inflation: lots of dollars without substance to back it up. - I'd say the way to research the die v jobs problem is to ask people. Find out who would be willing to lose children and relatives. Possibly many would. After all this was the way society worked for centuries. I'd like to think that we could provide both better care and better jobs. But I fear that we have let that slip by.

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[–] 23534573? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

You didn't answer the question.

We elected our governors to decide things like this. I think people who are scared of coming out have the right to hunker down, but we can't just keep printing money forever to pay for that.