Didn't you pay attention in the US History Class when they taught you that The United States has a Government of the people, by the people and for the people"?
Even less than really astute people should be able to figure out that when a majority of Americans want something, their public servants will enact it. Did it ever dawn on you why they are called Public Servants and not Public Rulers? I didn't think so.
Let me give you a clue about how our system works. When a majority of the American voters want something, politicians run for office promising to do it. Then when they get in office they do it. When a significant minority of voters want something politicians promise to do it... But when they get elected they don't do it.
What you want to happen will never happen because you are looking for a politician that will promise to do what you want. If a majority does not want it done, then they will promise you and break that promise.
Here is how you get things done.
First you convince a substantial majority of American voters to your views... That is it. Then just sit back and watch it happen.
I think we need to understand that anyone can be a Republican. All you do is register and if you want to run for public officer, you register for the primary and pay a fee and that's it. There's no means testing for Republicans, and yet we're surprised that they're just like Democrats. The truth is that political opportunists will gather to whichever party appears to be the most in fashion.
The solution is to watch your congresscritters closely, and see who votes conservative and who votes liberal. This requires actually paying attention to voting records, and not just going off the party labels you see in the polling booth, so I doubt the fad of Attentive Voting will ever catch on.
When he came to the US, he opened a shoe store, since he was a shoe manufacturer in Colombia who had to leave due to the current violence; he was making a living but not getting rich. Then he discovered Medicare.
He quickly opened a medical supply company that caters to elderly patients. No, he’s not a doctor nor has he ever played one on Spanish telenovelas. He just hired the help needed after he rented a tiny warehouse; his most important employee being a guy who used to work for a clinic supervising Medicare billing, (that clinic sends him most of his clients).
He told me that the profits are so obscenely high that he does not understand why some people get greedy and try to rip off Medicare using fraud, since ripping off Medicare is done legally everyday just by following Medicare rules.
For instance, his company rents medical equipment to the elderly, and his company gets paid according to a price list published by Medicare. I don’t recall the exact numbers, but he explained to me that the price list for rental of medical equipment has no relation to reality. It’s compiled by some bureaucrat who pulls the numbers out of his mule.
If he wants to rent a wheelchair to a Medicare patient, for example, he just looks up the list that says the monthly price is $150, and that’s what he bills Medicare. The fact that the elderly person could buy the same wheelchair at a used equipment supplier for less than that is not relevant to the Medicare price list.
His company also sells some ‘health drink’ that it is mixture of sugar and artificial vitamins/minerals for the elderly who need the extra “nutrition.” He told me that the drinks are extremely cheap but Medicare pays a premium for them. Some of the elderly people just give the drinks to their pets, but because they are “free,” nobody complains.
Similar stories can be told about the other items in the Medicare price list .
Medicare is just a boondoggle that it is impossible to fix. Bureaucrats running loose distorting the free market and creating socialist wealth. . . ripping off Peter to pay Paul.