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>> occupy the vacuum US policy has left Others might argue this is free market at work.
by 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.