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A major percentage of the problems with US health insurance and medical industry is directly due to government interference in the marketplace. We saw an exampl
by talmand 10y ago
A major percentage of the problems with US health insurance and medical industry is directly due to government interference in the marketplace. We saw an example of it with the housing market crash that dragged the economy down with it. You can see the same thing happening today with the runaway costs of universities.
I would prefer they just take a step back for a while.
- naravara 10y agoWhy is the default posture whenever the government does something badly to throw in the towel rather than fixing the damn problem?
- talmand 10y agoWho's throwing in the towel? Why is it a common assumption that the government can fix, with more government, the problems government created? Maybe fixing the damn problem is for the government to reduce its involvement in the problems it created?
- beisner 10y agoI might be inclined to agree with you if a majority of western governments hadn't already figured out how to do it well (or well enough).
- talmand 10y agoWhat works for one doesn't always work for the other. I think it would be quite easy to do such comparisons to determine that. It worked for that area of 10 million people so surely it should work just as nicely with that area of 300 million people.
- mywittyname 10y agoThe government didn't create the problem. They have just been unsuccessful at combating the real issue. The issue is our entire healthcare system is for profit and there is no market driver to reduce costs. Insurance companies collude with the AMA, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies to raise prices on all aspects of healthcare. The government needs to create that driver to reduce cost, since the industry is unwilling to. This could be many things, from public hospitals that provide free or low cost care (reducing the need for insurance), to creating a mutual insurance company whose charter is to minimize healthcare cost (creating competition in the marketplace).
- brianwawok 10y agoFreemarket for healthcare is stupid. You are poor? You die. You are rich? Here is a nice bed and 3 doctors to care for you. I do not want to live in that world. I do not want my children to live in that world.
- ericras 10y agoEver heard of charity?
- tanto 10y agoAnd what if someday no one is left to be charitable?
- MrMullen 10y agoMy head explodes at this comment. You want to determine if people live or die just based on the charity they can get. How fucking barbaric is that? What do we live in, the 15th century?
- brianwawok 10y agoMy head also exploded.
- kasey_junk 10y agoIs that covered by your insurance? I think for me that is out of pocket.
- brianwawok 10y ago$20 copay
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoI call Hyperbole. Its lots more complicated than that. There likely will never be endless free healthcare for everybody. Until then its rationed. How do you do that? As my old minister used to say, we can have all the morals we can afford. I'm also in favor of reasonable free healthcare for everybody, to a point. Because, enlightened self-interest. Its cheaper to have a healthy populace, for everybody. So some middle ground is necessary, between blue-sky endless free healthcare, and a free market.