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There is no need to have faith in anything special. As I said in my original post, it's just a matter of looking at healthcare systems in most of the developed
by Al-Khwarizmi 9y ago
There is no need to have faith in anything special. As I said in my original post, it's just a matter of looking at healthcare systems in most of the developed world. The healthcare systems that work best, in any published study and metric, have much more public involvement that the US system.
"Fervor" is what it takes to believe in utopian solutions that go exactly in the opposite direction to the success stories, and with no evidence whatsoever that they work in the real world.
- rrock 9y agoYou are my people.
- EdSharkey 9y agoOh, we look abroad. We like what Indonesia is doing with mandatory health savings accounts that is owned by the citizen (can't be raided by crooked politicians, a la social security). I wonder if you can explain: if socialized health care is so great, why do so many Brits purchase supplemental private health insurance? Any study or metric, huh? Sounds like you prefer lies, damn lies, and statistics. For instance, the US is hands-down the best in the world for intensive care after premature births. But you wouldn't know that if you just looked at infant mortality rates as compared to other countries because they use a different standard for what constitutes a "live birth". We actually place some value on life and work really hard to rescue the preemies, but that skews our numbers because lots of them still die. When you make blanket statements, try bolstering them with some truth or else you sound like an ideologue. Drill down a little. Make sure you shake those assumptions you've been fed and make the ideas resilient to attacks.