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A) Fracking is a bad way of harvesting bad oil. Banning it is good, not least because it combines aquifers, spreading pollution.
This is why you can no longer drill a safe well anywhere in the LA basin (this from an EPA regional person out there).
Further, the frackers use chemicals which they have been loathe to name; why is that?
B) America's health care costs ≈2X MORE than the next-most-costly system (Switzerland's), but we don't get 2X the health care.
Instead, we are lining the pockets of insurance companies to second-guess our doctors and our individual treatments.
Our insurance costs are huge because
1) the large number of people only pushing paper / doing data entry for different healthcare systems;
2) the administrative oversight costs;
3) the required markup for ROI;
4) we are fat and lazy.
Single-payer will cut the first three sources at a stroke.
C) Gas-powered vehicles are one of the main things which have screwed up the Carbon budget AND created greenhouse gasses.
We need to move beyond oil as much as possible.
This is why you can no longer drill a safe well anywhere in the LA basin (this from an EPA regional person out there).
Further, the frackers use chemicals which they have been loathe to name; why is that?
B) America's health care costs ≈2X MORE than the next-most-costly system (Switzerland's), but we don't get 2X the health care.
Instead, we are lining the pockets of insurance companies to second-guess our doctors and our individual treatments.
Our insurance costs are huge because
1) the large number of people only pushing paper / doing data entry for different healthcare systems;
2) the administrative oversight costs;
3) the required markup for ROI;
4) we are fat and lazy.
Single-payer will cut the first three sources at a stroke.
C) Gas-powered vehicles are one of the main things which have screwed up the Carbon budget AND created greenhouse gasses.
We need to move beyond oil as much as possible.