Over 25 million US Residents were medically uninsured in 2025

@Jackaloftheazuresand Except that is the truth and just because you want to call it an excuse doesn't make it any less true.

Also your failing to realize a couple of things...
1) You saying "exercising your collective power" is missing the words "successfully"... if we were "successfully exercising our collective power"...

2) I have no collective power, as I'm just one... just because multiple people realize something does not mean they're able to change something or fix something.

Most people agree that politicians are liars...

Just because we agree with that, and those that care about politics do exercises their collective powers (as you suggested) has not changed that in the slightest... that most politicians no matter the party are liars...


3) You saying "exercising your collective powers" is once again hollow words from you, as that's just more abstract non-reality from you... as saying that is the easy part...

Being able get the funding, skill sets needs, ability to lead it and to do it successfully is the hard to impossible part...

And neither party despite their mass resources compared to ours and this being one of their main jobs to figure out how to best run the system, can't figure it out, do you really think some amateurs with less time, less money and less resources could successfully be able to run it?

All the while I'm still having to pay all my current bills, and keep my current job, and need my current insurance... because I can't afford to abandon all of that and attempt to create something that all of the can't figure out, despite them being paid the big bucks to do it...

But to his credit, Billionaire Mark Cuban has started to go that way, not in overall medical insurance, but with specific drugs.

That might be the smartest way, but you would need to resources, which he has.... But I sure don't have millionaires resources, much less billionaire resources.

@sstronaut Exhibit A of excuse making behavior i.e. avoiding hard work

If multiple people can't change something then they don't really want to. I've seen enough of it to know. It's quite funny you mentioned the mafia because they only gained their influence by scaring cowards into submission. Mafiosos die when the neighborhood hangs them. Your lack of success is entirely on you for believing your excuses. What I know that you don't apparently is that people love being taken care of more than they love agency. You're just another one of them. It makes me wonder... (but not really) If you're going to be so defeatist and tell me how inept you are about this then why even fight at all, why not just give up. The reason is because you're being disingenuous and you're just lazy.

@Jackaloftheazuresand Oh please, doing my current job is not avoiding hard work.

You are saying, if I can basically do the impossible, I can find the solution... was the impossible is impossible for a reason.

And it's not avoiding hard work... it's knowing that it's impossible... at least for me. I know my limits, and entrepreneurship into medical and insurance is not inside my limits.

@fanuc2013 you mean the red states are the most productive ,and not atall corrupt ...what do you smoke ?

@romell this is directed at all readers of this thread and is the result of an AI search about which states are more responsible for health care fraud:

AI Overview

Health care fraud happens in both red and blue states, as criminals target weaknesses in government programs regardless of local political control. However, political debates focus differently on how each group of states administers social safety nets, handles auditing controls, and responds to federal anti-fraud enforcement.

Prevalence and ScopeBipartisan Issue: Independent experts and federal agencies note that health care and welfare fraud are national problems occurring across the political spectrum. Major fraud schemes have surfaced in both Democrat-led states (such as California, New York, and Minnesota) and Republican-led states (such as Texas and Mississippi).

Scale of Programs: Larger states with expansive health and human service programs—frequently governed by Democrats—often deal with massive gross volumes of billing, creating larger absolute targets for fraudulent actors in home-care or hospice sectors.

Political and Policy DynamicsBlue States:
Critics and federal overseers argue that some progressive, large-program designs in blue states feature structural vulnerabilities or slower enforcement response times that enable widespread improper billing.

Blue-state officials often push back against federal funding freezes or audits, characterizing them as politically motivated retributions rather than good-faith program integrity efforts.

Red States: Proponents of red-state governance argue that conservative states utilize tighter accounting controls, aggressive eligibility verifications, and frequent roll purges that limit opportunities for systemic fraud. Conversely, critics point out that red states also experience significant safety-net and pandemic-relief fraud scandals.

Enforcement Actions

Federal Focus: Federal enforcement initiatives, such as targeted Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) grant pauses and audits, have heavily scrutinized Democratic-led states over high billing trends in areas like personal care and hospice services.

Shared Mechanisms: All 50 states maintain Medicaid Fraud Control Units tasked with recovering misspent funds and securing criminal convictions, showing that the foundational legal mechanisms to fight fraud are active nationwide regardless of state-level politics.

@samueltyler2 well researched n totally impartial..also one has to see who has been more productive red states or blue states?Overall Share: Blue-leaning states generate roughly 70% of the total U.S. GDP, driven by high-value, concentrated industries like technology, finance, biotechnology, and advanced corporate services.

@JSul3 And providers are leaving. Why? Micromanaging by conservative politicians.

@Crazywaterspring IMO, it's because they're not making enough profit.

My provider took a hike last year and I had to scramble for a new one before the deadline.

@kodiac what are you trying to say?

@Midlifemale it is all about money. The money being spent on tRumps personal.ego trips could help cover many people's insurance coverage.

How do you think President Obama caused uninsured people? During his administration, due to his support of ACA the number of uninsured was at it's lowest.

Stop dog whistling about socialism. We already socialize other essential services. The establishment of ACA was not socialism! And the US is the only wealthy country without some form of universal coverage and people in countries that have such do not "stand on line for care." They may need to wait for an apoointment to see a physician or have an elective procedure. Have you tried to get an appointment with a US physician recently?

@Khenpal1 although 3 billion dollars is a lot of money to individuals like you and me, it's not really a lot of money compared to the 7 trillion dollars they collect from us in taxes each year. It's like being shocked that the one who had $7,000.00 in their pocket gave their friend $3.00. ..but they didn't give them $3.00. They gave them $3.00 worth of a product they already paid their family member much more than $3.00 to make a bunch more $3.00 worth of said product and they plan on paying them a lot more next year and the year after and so on , so they give a lot of that product away to a lot more of their friends besides Israel.

Bomb making is one of the very few manufacturing jobs we still have. We have to drop them or give them away to our friehds to drop to keep that much of our economy stimulated.

I'm definitely not saying i support that sort of behavior, I'm just laying out the bigger picture with hopes of relieving you of the burden of outrage. ..its really taxing on the inner peace

Something I can't help but ponder is would we be at war against Iran and would Isreal still have received those $3B worth of bombs if there were no Epstein files and if our president wasn't a subject within them? To me it seems obvious

@Jayciedubb which ever way you slice it, those billions of dollars could be much better spent in other ways. I fear for the existence of Israel which is surrounded by people who would like it to cease to exist, but this war in the middle east was made so much worse, in so many ways, by the US blundering into it. I have little hope that the current US administration even has the desire, least the will to get us out of it!