If I had to make a guess it would be that instead of bureaucrats working for a profit motive you'd have bureaucrats working for the government.  But that is only a guess.  But the mechanism truly isn't that important.  The results have been repeated over and over again in most western democracies.  It is a very difficult thing with which to argue.

Healthcare is a for profit business. You may not like it or agree with it, but it is. Doctors do not work for free. Yes there are doctors who do free work or join organizations that do not pay them much but the majority of doctors in America make money. They have to. They have to pay for the building they work in, the utilities they use, the equipment they need to treat patients and certainly to be able to provide for their families. Healthcare is not a right and it is a business.

I am still waiting for you to explain how we pay for a nationalized healthcare system or why you don't want to move to Europe if you think their societies are so much better than ours.

No candidate is perfect and no candidate is without their flaws. I do happen to think that Trump is a megalomaniac. I have genuine concerns about his positions given the fact that he has flopped on them many times, including important ones such as the 2nd Amendment. During a previous debate he was challenged on his position on H-1B visas by Megyn Kelly, changed it on the stage and within hours changed it again. Like Gimp, I believe people can indeed change their viewpoints and be sincere about it but I don't believe that Trump is serious about at least some of his flops. Trump has a very unique way of taking positions, changing them and then saying he was always for or against a particular issue and is the strongest on that issue.

Like I said previously, it's not as though Trump doesn't have his strong points. His ability to work the media and keep them in check is nice to see since none of the other candidates do it. I don't agree with his raising your hand and pledging to support him but I will not compare him to Hitler; I think that's a mainstream media attempt at taking him down. I'm not on board with the "Never Trump" folks but I every day I get a little closer. I'm just not sold on him.

Megyn Kelly's show is showing clips from the Democratic Town Hall and I can't believe some of the stuff being said, both by the candidates and by the Frank Luntz focus group after. Lots of talk about feelings and relating to each other. When Brett Baier asked Senator Sanders where the right to healthcare came from, his response was "by being a human being". No, Senator, that's not how this works. In fact, to sum up the Democratic campaigns so far:

I'm not sure why Cruz needs to disavow this. It was a comment made by a radio host against a candidate (or his radio co-host), Cruz has nothing to do with this.

Let's not forget that a sitting U.S. Senator, Lindsey Graham, jokes about murdering Ted Cruz on the Senate floor and nobody getting convicted for it. People say dumb things. Poor choice of words all the way around.

When I saw the title I thought the same thing.

Same here. Glad to see you aren't leaving, Jaybird.

I'm just kinda surprised there's any debate on this at all - the sitting President gets to select Supreme Court Justices. Democracy in action.

If and when there's a Republican president, then he'll get to choose if and when another vacancy opens up.

It just seems so simple.

First, the President doesn't get to select Supreme Court justices, he gets to nominate them and it's up to the Senate to confirm them. There is no obligation that the Senate confirm the nominee. Second, a president doesn't get to choose if there is a vacancy on the court since they are lifetime appointments. Generally speaking, with death being the exception, Supreme Court justices try to retire during a presidency that is closely aligned to their ideology so that their replacement is also of the same ideology.

I find it ironic that every time the President uses mass shootings as a method to push his gun control platform, he actually causes gun sales to skyrocket.