If that's all you want or need, no matter how terrible things are, that's obviously your business. It's rather absurd to pretend, though, that people don't take mediocre and convince themselves what they vote for is moderate when what they constantly vote for stability at all costs. Stability at all costs is terrible.
Well, you stated the mid-term defeats. If you were referring to Republican's vs Democrat's then there were some areas that Democrats did win more positions, but like I said, they were moderates who are supportive of most the current policies, not extreme radicals who want to destroy everything our country stands for, so I don't see that as a major loss, but I don't vote for just one party (I vote for people with policies that would be generally productive regardless if they are red or blue), so being impartial and non-bias in this situation is sort of in my nature.
If stuff does get unstable due to radicals pushing their agendas and we sees riots or another civil war then I'm ready to protect myself and my property. I'm not too worried about being able to defend myself, but I'm not looking for a fight, so I'll leave that to the "far left or far right" to start and keep voting for stability and hope for the best. I don't want conflict, but I won't back down from it.
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The question from me however is is this action likely to be a long term solution (or be the thing that kicks off on/covers people until it is there) in addition to the questions of use of power for it. The reason it might cost 75% less is because they are negotiating in bulk (even the biggest insurance providers seem to be a fraction of what smaller countries bring to the table), able to put down contracts (predictable income), maybe have a bit less red tape (don't know if the insurance providers have their own regs here, though they do limit usage of a lot of things. FDA regs are usually in line with the rest of the world) and that is far easier. If arbitrarily capping a market (for a nation so fond of "freedom" a rather strong act) then is that likely to do much good in the long term or all those other things mentioned in the first sentence?
I have wondered at times if the US paying so much also means other companies are more likely to negotiate outside the US as the US provides the bulk and everything else is just gravy on top of it all.
Good questions, much better than speculating that everything is going to end up bad and we're all doomed. I'm not sure what the future will bring, but hopefully it involves lower prices across the board and that people get the medication they need to stay healthy and alive at reasonable prices they can afford.