>Sure, basic income would be better than a patch work welfare state present in most of the developed world In many countries the government negotiates medicine

>Sure, basic income would be better than a patch work welfare state present in most of the developed world In many countries the government negotiates medicine prices as one entity for the entire country. This gives it a lot of leverage and the ability to provide medicine for all its citizens at a price far lower than what they would each individually be able to buy it at. Now if everybody had basic income the governments might start getting pressured to stop acting as an intermediate negotiator.