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The Affordable Care was passed in 2010. It took the law a few years to become fully implemented. Lifespans of Americans began declining in 2014 and continue declining today. Count on this trend to continue into the future.

Declining lifespans are explained away as being due to things like suicides and drug overdoses. These are what might be described as up line causes and are in no way root causes. The cause of decreasing lifespans is the structure of the healthcare market in the United States.  With the advent of the Affordable Care Act, personalized medicine has disappeared. What we have instead is mass market medicine. Mass market medicine is the child of lobbyist inspired legislation designed to increase the portion of GDP that is devoted to healthcare. It is also filled with skimming operations that enrich the insurance industry, pharmaceutical industry and to a lesser degree providers.

The level of genuine healthcare in the United States is severely diminished and as a result lifespans are declining. It will get much worse. It is impossible that the trend will reverse as long as this bill is law of the land. Citizens are not concerned enough to complain, so the bill is not likely to be repealed.

What about Medicare for all? That will not be any better and will probably be worse. There is no way to provide quality healthcare and feed the insurance and pharmaceutical industries at the same time. In today’s world, all legislation is for profit. The Affordable Care Act is on the books for the purpose of enriching the parties which hired the lobbyists to make sure the bill was passed. The same parties with massive political power will also write the provisions of any Medicare for al bill. Citizens will end up serving a government run healthcare system, just as they are doing now under the Affordable Care Act.

Does it have to be this way? No it doesn’t. However as long as American’s believe that this type of bill is passed for their benefit, nothing will change. American’s believe that having health insurance constitutes having healthcare. No one is getting genuine health insurance. What they are getting is life management and herding. Does anyone mind? Is anyone aware? It is easy to exploit folks who are unreasonably trusting and who wish for others to think for them.

What would constitute real government healthcare for American citizens?  There are many services provided by government that are not skimming operations disguised as benefits.  How often do you hear complaints about the costs of fire departments or road construction? There are no automatic skimming operations packed into the legislation that provides these types of things.

Any decent health care bill would have to eliminate all skimming operations in order to be of value.  In any country the majority has a clear right to insist that government guaranty access to quality healthcare for everyone. Free market healthcare would provide the optimum net level healthcare, but that idea has already been rejected. Free markets, despite their overwhelming benefits, are not trusted. With these thing people are prone to opt for collective solutions. A society can only do what the majority agree to do.

I am citing a system that provides an outcome very close to the optimum a free market system would provide while providing full benefits to all who have no means to pay.

1.) Give everyone in the country a plastic healthcare card that can be used to pay for all healthcare, healthcare products and related services.

2.) Providers are never advised as to the financial well being of patients.

3.) Doctors don’t know who pays and who doesn’t so price competition would be present.

4.) Low income payers could be subsidized. A maximum healthcare expense would be possible.

5.) Those who can’t pay get a statement showing services provided but no balance due.

6.) All who pay, would pay far less than the insurance premiums they are now paying now.

7.) Those who are in the class that now pays lobbyists to write legislation for profit would pay their entire healthcare expense.

There is no such thing as free healthcare. Enslaving doctors is not a reasonable solution. Having all doctors work for the government is not a solution. There is no one in the United States who is getting free healthcare. They never will. Even citizens in countries deemed as democratic socialist, pay for healthcare. There are many ways for a service to be provided but free is not possible.

What I just described is a very efficient way for a government to guarantee quality healthcare for everyone.  The key is to eliminate the skimming operations packed into these types of bills.  Also, a decent healthcare bill needs to be inspired and written by ordinary citizens.
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I have made a point of making it known that I use traditional technical analysis only or the purpose of identifying stocks in established downtrends. I am currently short 56 stocks which are listed below. This list changes over time because I regularly replace the strongest of these stocks with issues that show greater. Timing does not play a role in this system. The world is in such a sorry predicament that there is no class of assets that has much of a chance of increasing in value of even holding value. The solution is to practice what amounts to the opposite of ownership. That is selling everything one owns and then selling what one doesn’t own.
In today’s market, traditional technical analysis is useless. Back in the early days of trading, very few traders studied charts. Those who did were studying the behavior of the majority who were using traditional methods such as fundamental analysis. Long term investors were a large part of the market. Today, traders who relying technical analysis have no chance because they are part of the group think and are simply studying themselves.
Further, technical analysis was developed to for use in democratic markets. Today’s market is corrupted by constant government intervention, organized crime and well connected proprietary trading firms, the rules of traditional technical analysis only work accidently occasionally.
The chart below is of the Standard & Poors 500 Index. According to traditional technical analysis the blue lines represent support and resistance. Logically, one would buy if the red line on top was broken and sell if the redline on the bottom was broken.

In the old days, that line of reasoning worked pretty good. Today, if you are using traditional chart analysis, you are not gaming anyone. It is more likely you are being gamed by others who have figured out your reasoning. There is probably an algorithm being used to sell when people think they are doing the smart thing by buying on a price break out and buying when the same people get stopped out when the trade goes in the wrong direction. For chart analysis to work, you have to be part of the minority, gaming the behavior of the majority.
The reasoning behind managing a portfolio of already weak stock is based on a few simple realities. The most important of these is the fact that corrupt markets destroy themselves. The bottom will in fact fall out of the stock market. Stocks which are in their own private bear markets will probably continue to decline anyway, ahead of the eventual bear market.

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The reason for the impeachment effort is to protect the cash cows all in power have acquired over the years through the use of government and politics. Self interest is conveniently deemed not present in the public sector. Self interest manifests in the public sector faster and more efficiently in the public sector. In a free market system, self interest is balanced. There are buyers and sellers and they trade when their self interest’s are balanced. So, there goes the stress. Free people agree. Goodwill is a huge bi-product. There is a sense of peace.

Self interests works a little different in government. There are no customers. So, there is no way self interest can be balanced. There is voting but public opinion is easily managed and homogenized.  With government, self interest expands without bounds. It mutates and continues to expand. Symbiotic self interests develop and there are multi partner self interest effort partnerships. That all of these self interest situations might be displaced is the issue. There is nothing about impeaching the president will do any good at all for the overall country. There is not much good going to come from refraining to impeach the president either. The public will gain nothing either way.

Donald Trump is not a free market guy. He is a fascist style socialist just as are hid opponents. He will replace the enriched opportunists with opportunists of his own choosing. The public will continue to be exploited just as they are being exploited presently and always have been.  As long as voters view their leaders as messiahs instead of seeing them for what they are, they will all be donors to the upper class which controls government. Fascist style socialism is largely deemed the same as free market.

Some anticipate that the public will snap to reality as soon as a crisis hits. Don’t count on it. Fantasy is powerful. People will die before giving up fantasy. Fantasy completely eclipses reality.

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The reason for the impeachment effort is to protect the cash cows all in power have acquired over the years through the use of government and politics. Self interest is conveniently deemed not present in the public sector. Self interest manifests in the public sector faster and more efficiently in the public sector. In a free market system, self interest is balanced. There are buyers and sellers and they trade when their self interest’s are balanced. So, there goes the stress. Free people agree. Goodwill is a huge bi-product. There is a sense of peace.

Self interests works a little different in government. There are no customers. So, there is no way self interest can be balanced. There is voting but public opinion is easily managed and homogenized.  With government, self interest expands without bounds. It mutates and continues to expand. Symbiotic self interests develop and there are multi partner self interest effort partnerships. That all of these self interest situations might be displaced is the issue. There is nothing about impeaching the president will do any good at all for the overall country. There is not much good going to come from refraining to impeach the president either. The public will gain nothing either way.

Donald Trump is not a free market guy. He is a fascist style socialist just as are hid opponents. He will replace the enriched opportunists with opportunists of his own choosing. The public will continue to be exploited just as they are being exploited presently and always have been.  As long as voters view their leaders as messiahs instead of seeing them for what they are, they will all be donors to the upper class which controls government. Fascist style socialism is largely deemed the same as free market.

Some anticipate that the public will snap to reality as soon as a crisis hits. Don’t count on it. Fantasy is powerful. People will die before giving up fantasy. Fantasy completely eclipses reality.

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