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See you seem to think that when you say "I favor free market for food but not in healthcare", you're saying "I favor eating Chinese food today but last week I a

See you seem to think that when you say "I favor free market for food but not in healthcare", you're saying "I favor eating Chinese food today but last week I ate mostly Turkish food". Or "I don't drink coffee on the days I have to make a big presentation". Whereas saying what you're saying is more akin to "I believe in science and reason as far as Christian god is considered, but in China I believe in Budda as the supreme deity". My point is, that there is a reason why Free Market works, and government controlled economies don't. If you hold that model consistently you will find the reason why American healthcare system is so messy, and not that somehow govt controlled healthcare system works. If govt controlled healthcare works, then govt controlled everything and anything could work. > I paid full price in a single-payer system, not subsidized by anyone, where prices have been negotiated in advance, and it is a lot less costly. Are you claiming that something fundamentally in free market which prevents you from doing that here?

bisRepetita 10y ago
Reading you, I feel you believe free market is some sort of God that cannot ever be contested, and everything should be the same/consistent. The real world is way more complex. Healthcare is not like food. >if govt controlled healthcare works, then govt controlled everything and anything could work. Absolutely not: we have enough examples showing the opposite. Govt-controlled food prices usually does not work, and bargaining drug prices betwen a state and private companies actually does, in many countries!! Free market is a tool, very efficient to serve the people in most cases. But if that tool does not work very well for the people of the Unites States in a particular industry, why not change the rule in that industry? Afraid of entering of world of complexity where free market is not the only, systematic solution? Reality is diverse, even if it's annoying intellectually.

bisRepetita 10y ago

Reading you, I feel you believe free market is some sort of God that cannot ever be contested, and everything should be the same/consistent. The real world is way more complex. Healthcare is not like food. >if govt controlled healthcare works, then govt controlled everything and anything could work. Absolutely not: we have enough examples showing the opposite. Govt-controlled food prices usually does not work, and bargaining drug prices betwen a state and private companies actually does, in many countries!! Free market is a tool, very efficient to serve the people in most cases. But if that tool does not work very well for the people of the Unites States in a particular industry, why not change the rule in that industry? Afraid of entering of world of complexity where free market is not the only, systematic solution? Reality is diverse, even if it's annoying intellectually.