Mark Small

Prisons, hospitals & air traffic control involve capital & coordination, as well as substantive matters (i.e., what they do) best run by govt Prisons run privately & 4 profit R prime example of why those institutions should be run by the public. 14/26

On specific issues, Mr. Bales is inconsistent: he wants > control by Fed govt if it serves his needs. Ppl pay taxes into Fed govt, yet he would cut funding to cities that provide sanctuary to immigrants. 15/26

Economy: improve our Gross Domestic Product (GDP), but doesnt say how If he’d assistance any businesses, esp large ones, that inherently is anti-free market and, many would say, socialistic. 16/26

Health care: Mr Bales bashes ACA (first originated by then-Mass Gov (and Republican) Mitt Romney) & suggests, in part, we “lower the cost of prescription drugs and hospital care through a National Fee Schedule...” 17/26

A national fee schedule would not work without enforcement. If that enforcement is “national” it necessarily means the Federal government - read “The Summer of 1787" and why the Articles of Confederation were replaced. 18/26

Mr Bales says natl health care would bankrupt America Our current healthcare system has been effective at bankrupting people. A study last February found 66.5% of bankruptcies were tied to medical issues. 109 Amer J Public Health No. 3, p. 411, 02/06/19. 19/26

The report notes the numbers are similar to those pre-ACA. A lot of us believed ACA did not go far enough. These debts would have been off people’s shoulders if the USA had single payor. 20/26

If “socialized” health care is bad, then the USA’s health care system should be at the top. It is not. In a March, 2019, paper, for quality of health care, we were ranked 37th. 21/26

Okay, but if socialized medicine is so bad, there should be few, if any, countries, ranked ahead of us in which socialized medicine is a large component or an entire system that we would call “socialized.” 22/26

Of 36 countries ahead of us, only 2 R considered either to not have socialized medicine or a large component of its system socialized. Norway, ranked 11th, has a deductible of equivalent of $200. Morocco has mixed mandatory and private insurance. 23/26

Mr. Bales criticizes current occupant of Oval Office on 1 issue: natl debt. I’m the only candidate in GOP primary 2 say we should cut military budget in 1/2. That will make us more secure and get us on the road to restore our economy. 24/26

I’m a different kind of Republican, 1 that lately has been rare. I’m pro-choice & anti-war. We need ignorance & bigotry out of politics. 2 steps that direction: 1) remove an illegal President from the WH and 2) have rational people in charge of the GOP. 25/26