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Tragedy of the commons much? It's disturbing to see corporations occupy the vacuum US policy has left here.
by kikoreis 9y ago
Tragedy of the commons much? It's disturbing to see corporations occupy the vacuum US policy has left here.
- jonwachob91 9y ago>> occupy the vacuum US policy has left Others might argue this is free market at work.
- adventured 9y agoIt's market participants, with a huge stake, trying to fix a disastrously broken government-corporate healthcare system that has gradually failed for about a dozen big reasons over the last 20 years.
- ninkendo 9y agoIt depends on whether or not you view healthcare as a basic right for citizens (in the same sense as education and law enforcement etc.) The free market coming up with a co-op approach that may only benefit the handful of companies involved only benefits me if I’m in one of those companies.
- jumbopapa 9y agoAny one who is arguing that this is the free market at work doesn't believe that healthcare is a right. You can have access to healthcare, but that doesn't guarantee that you will.
- grasshopperpurp 9y ago>Any one who is arguing that this is the free market at work doesn't believe that healthcare is a right. You can have access to healthcare, but that doesn't guarantee that you will. This country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor. - MLK
- throwaway5752 9y agoI wish you were able to get the opportunity to die from undertreated diabetes complications (probably attributable to lack of health insurance coverage) in your 40s instead of my buddy. I mean, I'd rather you both have had coverage and lived long healthy lives, but if one had to go I wish it was the one that supported the cause.
- dang 9y agoI'm sorry about your buddy, but please don't channel that grief into personal attacks on Hacker News.
- throwaway5752 9y agoYou are right and I apologize.
- TillE 9y agoI do think it's very odd for any company to be making big bets on private health insurance when that system isn't going to exist in another 5-10 years. The ACA was the last stab at leaving private insurers in charge of a somewhat more regulated system, and it failed.
- jrs95 9y agoPersonally I'd be surprised if it doesn't still exist within the next 20 years. I don't think that much has changed in regards to how much political power this industry has. Just because the people are starting to get on board with single payer doesn't mean the politicians are going to care.
- vzqx 9y agoI think most people see ACA's failure as a failure of government regulation, not as a failure of private insurers. If anything the pendulum is going to swing the other way, and we'll see more privatized healthcare in the near future (5-10 years).