Jeff Deist
@jeffdeist
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@Monetary_Metals. Formerly @mises @ronpaul. Bylines: Wash Times Fox News The Hill, Roll Call Chronicles ZeroHedge et al. Defend language as an institution.
Joined September 2010
High-deductible barebones affordable policies for catastrophic illness or injury, with premiums priced on actuarial reality and lifestyle. Cash for basic medical services, with price competition and correct market incentives for better service. Free charity clinics and hospitals for truly poor and indigent people. That’s it.
Before Obamacare it was possible to buy health insurance that covered a catastrophic event (like cancer) and just pay out of pocket for a checkup. Obamacare means you have to pay more to subsidize all kinds of things that don’t impact you. And of course it has led to further consolidation in the industry. It’s a little like how Dodd Frank supposedly reformed the financial industry but really just locked in the dominant positions of the largest banks - the only ones that could afford the compliance costs. Any kind of big federal regulation that aims to ‘solve’ a problem usually just entrenches the largest players and makes life worse for normal people.
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RT @aud_a_k: @jeffdeist @DOGE Except Thomas Massie and Rand Paul. They are consistent and have been trying to bring this kind of shit to th…
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@contramordor They “support” Trump in the same way they would have supported iJeb! or Romney or any of the others.
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Edmond is right: the exposure of USAID is enormously important politically & psychologically, but the real cuts are in entitlements & “defense.”
What an absolute farce. This USAID thing is blowing people's minds and their budget is less than 0.7% of total government spending, and less than 2% of the annual deficit. When will we get to the real cuts? Those that will last and allow him to cut taxes sustainably.
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@EndWokeness Only politics makes it possible for an absolute nullity like her to achieve a dubious notoriety. One of the most stupid, corrupt, and rapacious members of the US House, and that's saying something.
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A curated, coordinated narrative to push deeply unpopular ideas across the West.
Nearly all mainstream media - WORLDWIDE - has been funded by the US government under USAID No wonder they all repeat the same things!
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@RevLarryBeane The mainstream Left still thinks Communism was well-intentioned and directionally correct.
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@kevinduffy1929 One of the great untold stories of the 20th century- the abdication of duty by Congress and the resulting rise of the imperial presidency.
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@realchrisrufo Politically vanquished people--even if only slightly and temporarily-- never go away. They just retreat enough to regroup.
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@bradleybirzer @Hillsdale @StateofNation25 Well-being is highly subjective and highly relative. We would not trade for our grandparent's material world, but they may well have been happier.
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