Who will take up the slack, nothing is manufacturered anywhere else? Or do you mean prices will skyrocket? And consumer goods will fall under an umbrella similar to that of oil and petroleum. Gosh, nice capitalistic world we live in isn't it? Explain to me how your macroeconomics are going to work out in the future for the working man.
AARP is selling insurance. Wake up people they aren't promising you anything, they are seeking a market.
It costs lots of money to keep a dollar pegged: in this case, artificially low. China can't keep it up forever, and when it no longer can, the dollar will float free. Its price will self-correct and rise rapidly; China's exports will become more expensive. Manufacturing in other countries will increase. Prices will jump slightly. But America will stop exporting so much capital to one place.
A country on welfare, with no sick folks, is a better place than a place that has sick folks and no welfare.
Except that universal healthcare doesn't make everybody healthy. And it certainly isn't cost effective. When a resource isn't scarce, people don't conserve it.