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> Every other developed nation has less of a free market in health care than the United States Generally what you're referring to is government run healthcare.
by tertius 9y ago
> Every other developed nation has less of a free market in health care than the United States
Generally what you're referring to is government run healthcare. This isn't "less" free market, it is no free market, (at least for the non-rich). So it's in a different realm.
I can agree that this like infant mortality is much better in a lot of countries. But this doesn't change the the U.S. pretends to have a "market" for medical services when the prices aren't set by government but only by providers and insurance companies. The people who are required to make free markets work, the consumers, have very little power in negotiation. Hence, it's not a free market.
Apples, oranges.
But the free market that we should have will likely never exist given political pressure. Single payer it is.
- BeetleB 9y ago>Generally what you're referring to is government run healthcare. This isn't "less" free market, it is no free market, (at least for the non-rich). So it's in a different realm. Nope. It's not government run in a number of those countries. Although I do not mean to include them in my comment, but even Canada's health care industry is not government run.
- tertius 9y agoHence the "generally." And Canada does on a large scale what Medicare does in the U.S. it is a single point of negotiation. This may be good or bad depending on how well medicare is run. Many are saying that medicare should just be expanded to cover all people, prices should go down.