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@B62N6FC from Oregon answered…15hrs15H

Should the government increase funding for mental health research and treatment?

The government is inherently to incompetent, beurocratic and in compassionate to take care of the mental health needs of people. Communities and people within t…

@B62N6FC from Oregon answered…15hrs15H

Do you support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)?

In general I do support it for the here and now. But in a perfect stateless, classless, moniless world it would be a non issue sense everyone would be taken car…

@B62MDG9from Maine answered…18hrs18H

Do you support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)?

No, I dont belive that there should be a forcing people to have an insurance, as it's strictly up to you if you want to take high risks - but the government sho…

@B62M225 from Texas answered…20hrs20H

Do you support the legalization of Marijuana?

I support the legalization for marijuana for medical purposes, but I believe the industry needs stricter regulations.

@B62JXWD from Georgia answered…1 day1D

Should medical boards penalize doctors who give health advice that contradicts contemporary scientific consensus?

Critique is an important part of science. What becomes scientific consensus is not exempt from critique and if the scientific consensus changes because this cri…

@B62JJPC from Missouri answered…1 day1D

Should people be required to work in order to receive Medicaid?

It should be required only for those who are able bodied, and low-income people when healthy while still providing when sick.

@B62JJPC from Missouri answered…1 day1D

Should there be more or less privatization of veterans’ healthcare?

I want to improve the current system while allowing veterans to be able to see who they choose to be their doctor.

@B62J79N from Tennessee answered…1 day1D

Should the government increase funding for mental health research and treatment?

Yes, and we should establish an economy that allows the workers to choose their own working conditions. You can't have capitalism without ableism as your needs…

@B62J79N from Tennessee answered…1 day1D

Do you support the legalization of Marijuana?

Yes, and people should be allowed to grow their own marijuana unregulated. And cooperatively if desired, without businesses getting in the way out of fear of lo…

@B62J79N from Tennessee answered…1 day1D

Should there be more or less privatization of veterans’ healthcare?

Less, and we should pull all bases out of all foreign soil. Turn the military also into a people's army, ran on an anti-imperialist platform.

@B62HPJP from Texas answered…2 days2D

Should the government forgive all medical debt for Americans?

They should provide better care and better insurance so there would be less need for debt forgiveness. Medical care is not optional; it’s a necessity, and it sh…

@B62HPJP from Texas answered…2 days2D

Should medical boards penalize doctors who give health advice that contradicts contemporary scientific consensus?

This is a difficult question, because I believe the problem starts with how doctors are educated. They’re taught to diagnose and prescribe a pill, not to identi…

@B62GP36 from Nebraska answered…2 days2D

Do you support the legalization of Marijuana?

Yes, nonviolent criminals charged with marijuana charges should be released and the marijuana should be monitored to keep it safe from “lacing”

@B62F3BQfrom Maine answered…2 days2D

Do you support a single-payer healthcare system?

This shouldn't be implemented until the national deficit is greatly reduced and the economic situation improves.

@B62CRNS from Arkansas answered…2 days2D

Should the government forgive all medical debt for Americans?

I’d say yes but within reason. It’s supposed to be insurances responsibility as they were established to help alleviate issues like this and medical debt is one…

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@B62CRNS from Arkansas answered…2 days2D

Should the government ban the promotion of products that contribute to unhealthy lifestyles for young people, such as vaping and junk food?

No but ban the poisonous additives that companies put into the food and other additives that are known to cause health issues.

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@B629Z37 from Texas answered…3 days3D

Should people be required to work in order to receive Medicaid?

The exception being that a person expressing a reasonable interest in finding work, e.g., attending school.

@B6297BCfrom Maine answered…3 days3D

Should the government forgive all medical debt for Americans?

si pero por debajo de un valor de ingrosos, renta, salario y situacion economica y famikuar. ademas en vez de cordonar al completo, siguiendo los ctiterios ante…

@B628SDS from Missouri answered…3 days3D

Should the government increase funding for mental health research and treatment?

Yes, but I believe that we should increase funding for programs that help teach healthy coping mechanisms and help you improve your mental health without involv…

@B628SDS from Missouri answered…3 days3D

Do you support the legalization of Marijuana?

Yes, but with regulation. I do not believe that the legalization of marijuana should lead to enticing advertisements or exposure encouraging use of marijuana. M…

@B628MY7 from Georgia answered…3 days3D

Should the government increase funding for mental health research and treatment?

no because I'm afraid they will realize there is more money to be made by prescribing more opioids to Americans and in turn have them feign off of the drugs.

@B5WKXV8from Vermont answered…3 days3D

Do you support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)?

No, ACA should have been a temporary means solution. We need to transition ASAP to reduce strain on the society and continue giving insurance companies more mon…

@B622KX2 from California answered…3 days3D

Do you support the legalization of Marijuana?

Yes, I support the legalization of marijuana, but with strong regulations, public health safeguards.

@B5ZZP47 from Alaska answered…4 days4D

Should the government forgive all medical debt for Americans?

No, but they should require insurance companies to pay out to all Americans in debt, without subsidies from the government.

@B5ZZP47 from Alaska answered…4 days4D

Should the federal government increase funding of health care for low income individuals (Medicaid)?

Yes, but the entire health care system needs to be overhauled (eliminating health insurance companies completely) in order to decrease the cost of healthcare.

@B62NCGF from New Jersey answered…14hrs14H

Should the government increase funding for mental health research and treatment?

I want people with mental health dealt with correctly. Give them their medications and force them to housed in a facility if they refuse to take their medicatio…

@B5ZYMRR from Oklahoma answered…4 days4D

Do you support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)?

I think if we're going to be paying taxes this is one of the first things that our money should be going to.

@B5ZXY57 from North Carolina answered…4 days4D

Do you support the legalization of Marijuana?

Yes but strictly for medical use. For non violent drug offenders max jail time should be 1 year, current guidelines for violent offenders should stay the same.

@jacob.brand from Missouri answered…4 days4D

Should medical boards penalize doctors who give health advice that contradicts contemporary scientific consensus?

Yes, if the advice was proven to harm the patient. Regardless, the doctors should be required to disclose that the advice contradicts contemporary scientific co…

@ISIDEWITH answered…5 days5D

Should people be required to work in order to receive Medicaid?

NO... Requiring work to receive Medicaid is only morally defensible if the policy reinforces virtue, protects the vulnerable, restores dignity, and reflects dis…

@ISIDEWITH answered…5 days5D

Do you support a single-payer healthcare system?

YES... A single-payer healthcare system, when grounded in justice, protected by liberty, governed by conscience, and integrated with spiritual purpose, can be m…

@ISIDEWITH answered…5 days5D

Should health insurers be allowed to deny coverage to individuals who have a pre-existing condition?

NO... Allowing insurers to deny coverage to individuals with pre-existing conditions fails nearly every moral, systemic, and strategic test. It violates the pri…

@ISIDEWITH answered…5 days5D

Should the federal government be allowed to negotiate drug prices for Medicare?

YES... when governed by justice, transparency, humility, and strategic design, is ethically warranted and structurally necessary. It affirms the dignity of the…

@ISIDEWITH answered…5 days5D

Should there be more or less privatization of veterans’ healthcare?

LESS... The question of privatizing veterans’ healthcare demands a multidimensional moral audit. It cannot be reduced to efficiency metrics or ideological refle…

@ISIDEWITH answered…5 days5D

Should the government regulate the prices of life-saving drugs?

NO... The question of government regulation of life-saving drug prices demands a multidimensional critique. It raises profound tensions between justice and inno…

@ISIDEWITH answered…5 days5D

Should the federal government increase funding of health care for low income individuals (Medicaid)?

NO... Increased federal funding for Medicaid, while superficially compassionate, risks violating subsidiarity, moral order, and structural sustainability. If re…

@ISIDEWITH answered…5 days5D

Should the government increase funding for mental health research and treatment?

YES... if properly ordered, can serve compassion and justice. But without a firm grounding in moral anthropology, spiritual coherence, relational integrity, and…

@ISIDEWITH answered…5 days5D

Do you support the legalization of Marijuana?

NO... Legalizing marijuana poses profound risks to moral formation, cultural clarity, and societal resilience. It violates the first principles of stewardship,…

@ISIDEWITH answered…5 days5D

Do you support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)?

NO... Reframe healthcare not as a bureaucratic entitlement, but as a moral responsibility grounded in human dignity, subsidiarity, and stewardship... Disassembl…

@B5ZL23Y from Texas answered…5 days5D

Should the government increase funding for mental health research and treatment?

No, However, privatized healthcare should be held to standards that ensure affordability and accessibility for mental health care. Additionally, Eastern medicin…

@B5ZKXTYfrom Maine answered…5 days5D

Should people be required to work in order to receive Medicaid?

Yes, if they are able (ability is not only defined as physical ability). If they are not able, they can still receive it. Those who do not work and are able to…

@B5ZJV95 from California answered…6 days6D

Do you support the legalization of Marijuana?

Yes, but more research should be done into Marijuana's medical effects and it should be regulated (like alcohol is).

@B5ZJN3X from Maryland answered…6 days6D

Should the government increase funding for mental health research and treatment?

The government can not be trusted whatsoever to label mental disabilities and pump out expensive treatments in the name of an economic pharmaceutical surge.

@B5ZJ3VN from Mississippi answered…6 days6D

Should the government regulate the prices of life-saving drugs?

Universal healthcare with private options. Things need to be more affordable. Completely private harms people and completely government harms people.

@B5ZJ3VN from Mississippi answered…6 days6D

Should the federal government increase funding of health care for low income individuals (Medicaid)?

Only for certain categories and work requirements should be a thing but increased income limit will also have to go into effect. Also, a version of universal he…

@B5ZGVNG from Illinois answered…6 days6D

Do you support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)?

There needs to be stricter eligibility requirements and have more resources and funds delegated to low income and rural communities first

@B5ZGJZK from Illinois answered…6 days6D

Should the federal government increase funding of health care for low income individuals (Medicaid)?

No, instead of extending funding delegate services to more vulnerable individuals/communities as opposed to a broad range of groups

@B5ZGJZK from Illinois answered…6 days6D

Should cities open drug “safe havens” where people who are addicted to illegal drugs can use them under the supervision of medical professionals?

Yes reopen and fund Betty Ford clinic type places and even name them in her honor. However these programs should not be heavily funded and criminal drug use sho…

@B5ZC6MF from West Virginia answered…7 days7D

Should the government forgive all medical debt for Americans?

Some hospitals need to make money however they should not be allowed to charge exorbitant prices and that should be forgiven

@ISIDEWITH answered…7 days7D

Should the government forgive all medical debt for Americans?

YES... if and only if it’s framed as corrective justice, not charity... it’s paired with permanent reform to billing, pricing, and insurance... it includes tran…

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@B62PHFD from Florida answered…9hrs9H

Do you support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)?

The issue with this act is that plenty of middlemen have been able to secrure themsleves a position in the healthcare industry and therefore have been able to t…

@B62NCXR from Texas answered…14hrs14H

Should the government forgive all medical debt for Americans?

No, but the government to nationalize all medical debt and use the interest to reinvest in cutting down on the debt.

@B62NCGF from New Jersey answered…14hrs14H

Should the government increase funding for mental health research and treatment?

I want people with mental health dealt with correctly. Give them their medications and force them to housed in a facility if they refuse to take their medicatio…

@B62N6FC from Oregon answered…15hrs15H

Should the government increase funding for mental health research and treatment?

The government is inherently to incompetent, beurocratic and in compassionate to take care of the mental health needs of people. Communities and people within t…

@B62N6FC from Oregon answered…15hrs15H

Do you support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)?

In general I do support it for the here and now. But in a perfect stateless, classless, moniless world it would be a non issue sense everyone would be taken car…

@B62MDG9from Maine answered…18hrs18H

Do you support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)?

No, I dont belive that there should be a forcing people to have an insurance, as it's strictly up to you if you want to take high risks - but the government sho…

@B62M225 from Texas answered…20hrs20H

Do you support the legalization of Marijuana?

I support the legalization for marijuana for medical purposes, but I believe the industry needs stricter regulations.

@B62JXWD from Georgia answered…1 day1D

Should medical boards penalize doctors who give health advice that contradicts contemporary scientific consensus?

Critique is an important part of science. What becomes scientific consensus is not exempt from critique and if the scientific consensus changes because this cri…

@B62JJPC from Missouri answered…1 day1D

Should people be required to work in order to receive Medicaid?

It should be required only for those who are able bodied, and low-income people when healthy while still providing when sick.

@B62JJPC from Missouri answered…1 day1D

Should there be more or less privatization of veterans’ healthcare?

I want to improve the current system while allowing veterans to be able to see who they choose to be their doctor.

@B62J79N from Tennessee answered…1 day1D

Should the government increase funding for mental health research and treatment?

Yes, and we should establish an economy that allows the workers to choose their own working conditions. You can't have capitalism without ableism as your needs…

@B62J79N from Tennessee answered…1 day1D

Do you support the legalization of Marijuana?

Yes, and people should be allowed to grow their own marijuana unregulated. And cooperatively if desired, without businesses getting in the way out of fear of lo…

@B62J79N from Tennessee answered…1 day1D

Should there be more or less privatization of veterans’ healthcare?

Less, and we should pull all bases out of all foreign soil. Turn the military also into a people's army, ran on an anti-imperialist platform.

@B62HPJP from Texas answered…2 days2D

Should the government forgive all medical debt for Americans?

They should provide better care and better insurance so there would be less need for debt forgiveness. Medical care is not optional; it’s a necessity, and it sh…

@B62HPJP from Texas answered…2 days2D

Should medical boards penalize doctors who give health advice that contradicts contemporary scientific consensus?

This is a difficult question, because I believe the problem starts with how doctors are educated. They’re taught to diagnose and prescribe a pill, not to identi…

@B62GP36 from Nebraska answered…2 days2D

Do you support the legalization of Marijuana?

Yes, nonviolent criminals charged with marijuana charges should be released and the marijuana should be monitored to keep it safe from “lacing”

@B62F3BQfrom Maine answered…2 days2D

Do you support a single-payer healthcare system?

This shouldn't be implemented until the national deficit is greatly reduced and the economic situation improves.

@B62CRNS from Arkansas answered…2 days2D

Should the government forgive all medical debt for Americans?

I’d say yes but within reason. It’s supposed to be insurances responsibility as they were established to help alleviate issues like this and medical debt is one…

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@B62CRNS from Arkansas answered…2 days2D

Should the government ban the promotion of products that contribute to unhealthy lifestyles for young people, such as vaping and junk food?

No but ban the poisonous additives that companies put into the food and other additives that are known to cause health issues.

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@B629Z37 from Texas answered…3 days3D

Should people be required to work in order to receive Medicaid?

The exception being that a person expressing a reasonable interest in finding work, e.g., attending school.

@B6297BCfrom Maine answered…3 days3D

Should the government forgive all medical debt for Americans?

si pero por debajo de un valor de ingrosos, renta, salario y situacion economica y famikuar. ademas en vez de cordonar al completo, siguiendo los ctiterios ante…

@B628SDS from Missouri answered…3 days3D

Should the government increase funding for mental health research and treatment?

Yes, but I believe that we should increase funding for programs that help teach healthy coping mechanisms and help you improve your mental health without involv…

@B628SDS from Missouri answered…3 days3D

Do you support the legalization of Marijuana?

Yes, but with regulation. I do not believe that the legalization of marijuana should lead to enticing advertisements or exposure encouraging use of marijuana. M…

@B628MY7 from Georgia answered…3 days3D

Should the government increase funding for mental health research and treatment?

no because I'm afraid they will realize there is more money to be made by prescribing more opioids to Americans and in turn have them feign off of the drugs.

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