What do you think is the most important policy area?

More Than Mortal · March 04, 2016, 09:31:06 PM

And I mean a specific area of policy, and what you would like to see done. I don't mean like economic policy vs. foreign policy or whatever.

Elai · March 04, 2016, 09:49:27 PM

Definitely economic policy or foreign policy. I can't decide.

DAS B00T x2 · March 04, 2016, 10:02:17 PM

To hell with government pensions. I want more money invested in our roadways and utilities.

BaconShelf · March 05, 2016, 06:24:36 AM

Well one that means a lot to me is space travel and exploration so anyone willing to do more for that would instantly have my attention.

Mr. Psychologist · March 05, 2016, 09:43:32 AM

Healthcare, in particular Mental Healthcare

I'd like to see a more proportionate balance of the amount of money spent on services, the last figure I remember was that MHC got a 1/4 of the funding per patient that physical medicine got per patient.

And quite aside from that imbalance, the cost-effectiveness of widely available talking therapies is leagues ahead of some of the other more common physical health issues.

I think it was the layard report or one of the NICE reports a few years back that put the estimated cost of lost productivity and incapacity benefits for depression at ~£2 billion per year. And it sure as shit wouldn't cost that much to provide CBT sessions for the majority of those affected.

PSU · March 05, 2016, 10:16:49 AM

Economic for sure lol.

But to be specific tax plans.

Super Irish · March 05, 2016, 02:19:30 PM

Economic policy, particularly welfare regarding Upper Secondary and Tertiary education.

How EMA is a broad "60, 30 or nothing" every 2 weeks with crazy wide brackets on who gets it, while the maintenance and grant system fucks over anyone in the middle class or run a business, while the unprivileged folk (inc. myself) get more money than we know what to use with.

Secondly, Domestic politics. As useful as the House of Lords can be at times, I don't agree with some posts being purely hereditary or for strictly religious posts (which IIRC, are all for the Christians). Not exactly a super important policy, but it has an impact on everything else in the implementation process and needs a bit of polishing.

March 06, 2016, 07:51:38 PM

The most important? That's hard to say. I'd personally say either fighting poverty or restructuring the FDA as a whole and eliminating the complete corporate ownership of it.