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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Policy-wise those are very different questions.

30-year mortgages evolved as a way to help people afford housing. More recently, Trump proposed 50-year mortgages, which are common in some other countries.

Employer-provided health care is frequently debated as part of discussions about moving to single-payer. It’s a complicated subject. It does shackle people to jobs they don’t like and stifles entrepreneurship but it sustains the insurance industry and keeps government at bay on healthcare, which some like for some stupid reason. [/quote]

+1. I’m all for universal health care in theory, but in practice (in other countries) it seems far from perfect. My grandparents are Canadian and when my elderly grandfather was having a breathing emergency, the wait for an ambulance (yes there are WAITS for ambulances in Canada) was over 2 hours. So my elderly, mobily challenged grandfather had to get to the hospital on his own without medical care (nearby relative met him at the hospital). He ended up having a heart attack at the emergency room and dying. The systems and waits to get into treatment in universal healthcare systems can be really terrible. [/quote]

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