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“The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellows hands”Will Rogers, November, 1932Trickle down didn’t work for Hoover. It didn’t work for Nixon or Reagan. Bush senior called it voodoo economics. It also failed under Bush the younger. Money trickles up. Urine trickles down.

They pay for it using a combination of tax revenue and compulsory (but highly regulated) insurance.It works fine for many countries and would also work for the USA.The problem is how to get there.Currently in the USA, not everyone has cover or can afford cover. Also the cost of treatment is much higher than in other countries which have (artificially?) held down their costs.There is also a significant proportion of the population that rejects any idea they call “socialist” or “liberal". That makes it much more difficult to implement such ideas.Lastly there is a widely held belief that American healthcare is the best in the world - which is clearly not true, but which doesn't help anyone who wants the system to change.

What do you think of this tweet from Donald Trump: “Democrats are coming after our great Kentucky Senator, Mitch McConnell, with someone who compared my election to September 11th.”?MCConnell great? Great for who?For the people of KentuckyMcConnell is the person who jammed through a tax scam for billionaires on the backs of working class people and pushed to bailout uneconomical and dangerous coal plants.Kentucky dies while Mitch McConnell does what?Kentucky is dyingBlack lung, COPD, emphysema.This month’s Journal of the American Medical Association reports “the largest cluster ever reported of advanced black lung, also known as progressive massive fibrosis, was confirmed in an area that includes southeastern Kentucky.” Coal miners like Roger Cook worked for 32 years. He died at 61. Roger Cook is the norm.Then there is our opioid crisis where 1,471 Kentuckians died in 2016 trying to tamp down their pain, with even higher numbers expected for 2017. A friend of ours got a call that his granddaughter was dead on her porch. Fentanyl. She left behind two little girls who will now go to live with their father, also an addict.We aren’t even surprised anymore. This is Kentucky life, and death.https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/op-ed/article202615604.htmlPresident Donald Trump said we were going to win so much we would get tired of winning. But so far, the only winners here in the Bluegrass are morphine, fentanyl, Oxycodone, Alprazolam and heroin.Though Kentucky rates well for quality of life at No. 27 out of the 50 states, according to U.S. News and World Report, we rank No. 49 for quality of health care, No. 38 in higher education, No. 45 in economic opportunity and No. 46 in fiscal stability.Which raises the question: How does our senior senator — the man who has represented Kentucky for more than three decades — explain numbers like these?Kentucky is dying, and we have so much need. We need health care, education, infrastructure, an addiction recovery plan, sensible gun reform, money for teachers, new economic opportunities and paths to citizenship for the people doing the work.Yet Kentucky continues to lag behind the national average in health care and median income. Its teachers spent much of the spring decrying low education funding and changes to their pensions. Poverty remains a persistent challenge in Kentucky, with the rates in some Eastern Kentucky counties among the highest in the country.As to the American peopleMITCH MCCONNELL CALLS FOR SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE, MEDICAID CUTS AFTER PASSING TAX CUTS, MASSIVE DEFENSE SPENDINGAfter instituting a $1.5 trillion tax cut and signing off on a $675 billion budget for the Department of Defense, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that the only way to lower the record-high federal deficit would be to cut entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.IMHO those programs aren't entitlements but programs that we paid into with the promise of helping us when we need it. The reason being that these so called "entitlements" would help defray the tax cuts for the rich and corporations. McConnell claimed that the driver of the debt are these "entitlements"It seems that the Republican Senate is on the hook for Mitch McConnell’s plan to cut Medicare and Social Security. First it was jeopardizing pre-existing conditions coverage, then it was pursuing an age tax that would charge older Americans more for care, and now it’s targeting the benefits Americans have paid into.Mitch McConnell says deficit ballooned because of Social Security, Medicare, not Republican Tax CutsIMHO McConnell is an evil, power hungry old man and should have been voted out of office a long time ago.