Problems in the US, what are your solutions?

2015-02-09T04:29:02-05:00

This is across the board, campaign financing, House and Senate term limits, border control, Legalizing certain drugs, prison sentance limits or hard labor camps...drilling for oil, or looking for alternative energy platforms, this US forum is your oyster.
State what you perceive as a problem, and then suggest your solution.

I'd like to see some suggestions on Universal Healthcare, while I think it is a great idea, I don't know how it should be initiated or paid for.

Response by SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 9 at 2015 4:32 AM

2015-02-09T04:32:16-05:00

Healthcare reform...a hospital visit will cost you $900 and that is for a small cut. If you have insurance it may coat you $100 or less depending on your co-pay, and the hospital will accept less than that from your ins. Co. We need massive healthcare cost reform, perhaps a cap on certain services, we also need tort reform. Accidents happen, people die, you shouldn't be able to get $10 million dollars when you would never have made more than a $1 million in your life time....there are always exceptions to the rule.

Response by SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 9 at 2015 4:36 AM

2015-02-09T04:36:15-05:00

My second problem is Senators with a golden fleece retirement plan...yank it's too expensive. Also, we need term limits identical to the President, eight years and you are gone...I'd be okay with taking a term off and being able to come back ...but Senators become dead weight if not held accountable.

Response by SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 9 at 2015 4:38 AM

2015-02-09T04:38:03-05:00

Problem #3, reliance on foreign oil....start digging and storing our own, build our reserviors, or better yet, invest in alternative fuels, or sources...we have the same engine we've had for 100 years, are you kidding me? That is antiquated thinking.

Response by SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 9 at 2015 4:43 AM

2015-02-09T04:43:58-05:00

Criminals....we have too many in jail. For our less violent and dangerous criminals, labor camps, GPS tracking device...monitored 100% of the time. Hold formations if you have to...the more dangerous ones, drug therapy to make them more passive, heck prescribe them marijuana...that would work. Serious sex offenders...remove their testicles...that would make them more docile. Serial killers, 3 year max jail sentance....and they get to choose their way they want to die. Criminals should be paying their way...building things we use everyday...toilet paper, toothbrushes, socks, clothes, tires, Consumables...teach them a trade, increases trade, govt makes money...we need a negative deficit.

Response by SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 9 at 2015 4:55 AM

2015-02-09T04:55:06-05:00

Ideas also requested on Merging the military.

Education budget equal to military budget

Deficit spending, should we have a ceiling and what good is it if it can changed with an executive order.

Response by SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 9 at 2015 5:02 AM

2015-02-09T05:02:55-05:00

So many SM have active acute and chronic MSK problems which can be helped with chiropractic, Create a chiropractic Corps, and Commission Chiropractors in the active military, in all services....this will save exponential money across their lifetime and especially in disability ratings and benefits....

Response by SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 9 at 2015 5:04 AM

2015-02-09T05:04:16-05:00

Give the states the power to create their own laws....why have a federal law when a state law conflicts with it? Seems like we are working against ourselves.

Response by SGT Jim Z. made Feb 9 at 2015 5:14 AM

2015-02-09T05:14:08-05:00

SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member I just want to say this is a very good topic.

Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 9 at 2015 10:17 AM

2015-02-09T10:17:26-05:00

@SSG Michael LoGiudice, I think the ACA was a horrible plan. There is one thing that keeps pricing low, and that is competition. If the Congress was serious about dropping health care cost all they would have had to do would be to write, implement and enforce one regulation: Portability.

Auto insurance is the biggest example of that. There is no national law mandating auto insurance. Every State has a law though (as it should be; no power given to the FED is expressly left to the states). Auto Insurance is portable, not monopolized by region by 1 or two companies. I have two cars, 1 adult and one teenage driver (and another one going to drive next year) and my full coverage auto insurance is barely at $200/month.

This would cause competition in the healthcare insurance industry. They would contract services with health care providers and the best price on those services would win.

I'll think about the other topics, but that's my two cents for now.

Response by SFC Richard M. made Feb 9 at 2015 10:30 AM

2015-02-09T10:30:36-05:00

My biggest wish is for people to stop complaining about it on Facebook, and to actively do something about it.

Everyone in the military have sacrificed in the name of something bigger than ourselves. Some have paid the ultimate price. For people to see that something is broken, yet not have the intestinal fortitude to do anything about it and just relentlessly complain and argue about it is insulting and serves no purpose.

I'm not saying we need a nation of activists, but if you see a problem DO something about it, don't just TALK about it.

Response by MSgt Michelle Mondia made Feb 9 at 2015 10:51 AM

2015-02-09T10:51:07-05:00

Google and read about how president Truman handled these problems after the end of WWII. It was brilliant. But the top earners were taxed 90% to fund all of it and may look suspiciously like socialism to some of you. History has the answeres, this isn't our first go around. Today, CEOs are making a thousand times more than their workers. Look at the ratio charts online and track the the percentage increase over time. Our country was at its best when there wasn't such a gap in wealth. It's like osmosis, power follows money...and the average worker has less money equating to less power, including voting and consumer power. Average Americans can't take on corporations. Whom have been deemed "persons" by the supream court, allowing them rights as people http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/how-supreme-court-turned-corporations-people-200-year-saga
The past 5 years have promoted the rise of the corporation over citizen. Empowering the worker would help economy considerably. When you give people money they spend it. When you give a cooperation money (they create jobs my ass!) their stock goes up and they give each other bonuses. $60,000 tax stimulus for every adult in resident citizen in America.