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No. The best most cost effective solution to health care is single payer government operation of the health care system. It's a tried and proven over decades t
by Adam503 17y ago
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The best most cost effective solution to health care is single payer government operation of the health care system. It's a tried and proven over decades to cut the cost of health care all over the rest of the industrialized world.
For some ludicrous reason, the beloved-by the British UK model of health care is called "communism" if it's even mentioned here
When did Great Britain turn communist? I completely missed that event.
- chipsy 17y agoIt's a form of "slippery slope" argument: Increased government powers mean that more people are fundamentally beholden to the state for their well-being. If the state fails, these people will be very unhappy. Thus a socialist policy in a republic can, over time, act to distort policy to massively favor the whims of bureaucrats. In the _worst case scenario_ the bureaucrats might be radicals who want to install a communist system. But I don't think this is true of either the European socialist states, or of U.S. liberals. You can cherry pick examples of radical elements, Fox News style, but they aren't the main concern here - economic risk is the big one. A tightly integrated state can operate more efficiently than one that tries to regulate companies from afar, but if it goes down due to a "black swan" event, recovery is going to be more difficult.
- eru 17y ago> A tightly integrated state can operate more efficiently than one that tries to regulate companies from afar [...] Depends a bit on what you mean with efficency.
- Adam503 17y agoRubbish. How many states have gone down? Somalia. That's it. Now how many corporations have gone down leaving the people who the corporation agreed to provide services to in deep trouble? It's almost quite literally infinitely more risky to trust a corporation than it is to trust government.
- arethuza 17y agoJust to remind people that the NHS isn't the sole provider of health care in the UK - there are plenty of private health care insurers and providers which seem to co-exist fairly happily with the socialist NHS.