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<blockquote data-quote="Ace" data-source="post: 7826962" data-attributes="member: 944">This is a sad outcome for all This is a combination of our so called RPG industry actually being a hobby with only a miniscule number of decently paid positions and the fact the US (and note other nations do not have this issue) not having a national health care system like pretty much every other developed and many less developed nations do. The industry itself&nbsp; is beyond changing and going back to the 90's say where a small RPG publisher of something like Talislanta could make a decent living is simply not possible for a great many reasons. As for&nbsp;&nbsp; changing the US healthcare system? That&nbsp; isn't impossible buts it's difficult as soon as any real change looks to take place a flood of money from vested interests&nbsp; puts an end to that.&nbsp; You need to have people in office who are smarter than the current crowd,&nbsp; resistant to campaign contributions and the rest of our essentially legalized bribery&nbsp;&nbsp; well liked enough to avoid the massive flows of money that every challenger will get when they try&nbsp; and dedicated to actual reform.Keep in mind that national health care will gut the profits of big pharma (cost controls are integral to such systems) and the health insurance industry both of whom are larger than actual industry That's a lot of opposition and vested interests and limitless cash opposing you. They can and would spend billions so the opposition would have to be more plucky than any resistance. Basically to do this&nbsp; you need FDR 2 x 400 or soThis is not a party issue however &nbsp;Certainly the Democratic party has been proven&nbsp; more amenable to national health care that the Republicans but the Affordable Care Act which demonstratively showed the Democrats&nbsp; can't do it right either. After all the Democrats on a party line vote controlling the House, Senate and Presidency could not manage a good bill and the health care problems we have may have even gotten worse. The bill was essentially rewritten by lobbyists and in order to pass something, they passed a bill they didn't read and that isn't working as intended.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ace, post: 7826962, member: 944"] This is a sad outcome for all This is a combination of our so called RPG industry actually being a hobby with only a miniscule number of decently paid positions and the fact the US (and note other nations do not have this issue) not having a national health care system like pretty much every other developed and many less developed nations do. The industry itself is beyond changing and going back to the 90's say where a small RPG publisher of something like Talislanta could make a decent living is simply not possible for a great many reasons. As for changing the US healthcare system? That isn't impossible buts it's difficult as soon as any real change looks to take place a flood of money from vested interests puts an end to that. You need to have people in office who are smarter than the current crowd, resistant to campaign contributions and the rest of our essentially legalized bribery well liked enough to avoid the massive flows of money that every challenger will get when they try and dedicated to actual reform. Keep in mind that national health care will gut the profits of big pharma (cost controls are integral to such systems) and the health insurance industry both of whom are larger than actual industry That's a lot of opposition and vested interests and limitless cash opposing you. They can and would spend billions so the opposition would have to be more plucky than any resistance. Basically to do this you need FDR 2 x 400 or so This is not a party issue however Certainly the Democratic party has been proven more amenable to national health care that the Republicans but the Affordable Care Act which demonstratively showed the Democrats can't do it right either. After all the Democrats on a party line vote controlling the House, Senate and Presidency could not manage a good bill and the health care problems we have may have even gotten worse. The bill was essentially rewritten by lobbyists and in order to pass something, they passed a bill they didn't read and that isn't working as intended. [/QUOTE]

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